Travel Recommendations from your friends! Earthfaves is Launched!
Everyone who knows my wife and I, know that our biggest vice is that we love to travel (if you can call that a vice). Our selection process is usually fairly calculated narrowing the list from the 193 countries of places we’d like to go, taking into account the season, the exchange rates, etc. However, what we haven’t had in the past is a system to link to our friends on places they have been and specifics about things they’ve liked. Sure there are other application mash ups with pins in maps (whoopee!), but they are bland and lack a true sense of warmth. So we finally have Earthfaves, the newest, most comprehensive site for travel recommendations from people YOU know.
Here’s a more eloquent teaser on the new website, I encourage you to check it out at www.earthfaves.com.
So you’re spending a couple days on business out of town. You’re up for a drink, maybe some BBQ, a baseball game or museum, but you have no idea where to go. Maybe you can call your buddy who lived there a couple of years after college. Or maybe you can call on 1,000 of your buddies all at once.
Getting recommendations from friends and colleagues is easy, reliable, and makes for a better experience when you’re on the go.
So what if you could search through the collective recommendations from all your friends – even those you haven’t already met – with a click of the mouse? Like a futuristic, remote brain scanner – filtering through the minds of your friends and colleagues from around the globe – pushing you all of their recommended places. Anything from a hip bar, an amazing deli, a hotel with an awesome breakfast buffet, to a relaxing beach or even quiet park with Wifi access. Priceless information you can’t get in a guide book.
Use the collective intelligence from a network that you build, and keep up-to-date on all sorts of amazing places.
It’s simple to get started. Log in, add the places you’d recommend to your friends, invite them to join your network, and have them do the exactly same.
Reliable, searchable recommendations from a source you can trust.
Happy Traveling!
Ryan
Dell Inspiron Mini – great for travelers!
Ever want to bring a laptop on vacation for managing pictures/videos and staying in touch but don’t want to lug around the old heavy laptop from home? Well the n810 from Nokia has been out for a while but if your stuck on windows, then you may want to take a look at the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9.
Runs XP home or linux, with an 8.9 inch display, usb ports (great for large removable hard drives), bluetooth, vga out, the list goes on.
If I didn’t already have an X1 and N810, this may be on my list!
