Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0

Planning a vacation always starts with one thing… where to go. You could always ask a friend or a family member for their suggestions but then you would be only limited to where they’ve been. Tripwolf hopes to change that with there social travel website.

There are different ways you can use the site, if you already have an idea of where you would like to go enter it in the search box and Tripwolf will display the location along with places of interest, pics, videos and reviews by members of the site.

But the strongest feature of the site are the Trip Gurus. The trip gurus are self-proclaimed experts in their chosen areas of travel. Simply ask them a question and most will respond back with helpful suggestions.

So if you’re thinking of planing a trip you might want to see what Tripwolf has to offer.

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Filed under: Internet, Social Software

Once upon a time, letting people know what you were up to on the internet was simple. You’d just point your friends toward your blog, LiveJournal page, or MySpace where you posted all of your latest musing on life. But if you’re an active netizen, odds are your social activity is spread out across a half dozen or more sites, ranging from YouTube to del.icio.us. Swurl is a new service that helps bring all of your status updates, bookmarks, watched videos and other activity together.

If Swurl sounds a bit like FriendFeed, it kind of is. Both services let you gather all of your social networking activity in one place. But Swurl is a lot prettier and more customizable. You can think of it nearly as a meta-blog. If you’ve a blog on Blogger or WordPress, you can configure Swurl to display all of your latest posts in blog-like format. But it will also show your Twitter and Facebook status updates and other activity in chronological order. Or you can hit the search box to search all of your sites.

Anyone can comment on an item that shows up on your Swurl page just by hovering their mouse near the bottom of an update. And you can use Swurl as something of a start page by hitting the Friends tab to see what your contacts have been up to. There’s also a nifty timeline view that shows your updates plotted out on a calendar.

Swurl was developed by Ryan Sit, the same guy who brought us Listpic, an awesome interface for browsing on the internet classified sites.

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Filed under: Blogging, Social Software

Mirco-blogging is a great way to let people know what you’re up to that very instant. But what if you could let your followers know where your post originated from. That might have been the very thing running through the minds of the people behind byNotes.

On the surface byNotes operates like any other micro-blogging site but in addition to sending messages you can also specify where in the world you are via Google Maps.

Now we know what you’re thinking, stalker tool right? Post a message of “I’m at this really nice cafe posted at 123 Anystreet, Anytown” could lead to a lot of unwanted attention. Thankfully byNotes has put into place restriction levels so that based on the access level you’ve established, people can either know the exact location, a general location like the country or some where in between.

The only downside to this service is that you must be in front of a computer to use it as byNotes doesn’t appear to have a mobile version available.

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Filed under: Internet, Pic, Productivity, Social Software

Memeo’s new Share application is designed to make the process of sending high-resolution photos a tiny easier, by sending them directly to another users desktop or putting them in an RSS feed they have the ability to look at in iPhoto.

The application, which is currently in beta, isn’t meant to be a substitute for any pic sharing application you might currently be using, even though photos shared using Memeo Share can also automatically upload photos to your Facebook account. Share is instead designed for sharing high-resolution photos and video with small groups or family and friends without having to send individual emails containing each item due to their size. Those who receive your pics can then decide what pics they want, and print out pictures they like at a quality resolution.

Memeo Share is offering a free lifetime use for the first 1,000 people to sign up for the beta with the public preview limited to 10,000 total sign ups. Get yours here.

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