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Mon, 14 Apr 2008
Another Finnish startup (Tripsay) featured on Techcrunch
Another fourteen hours at the office (though I did skip to the university for a pair of those). Busy ironing out some remaining issues from a major feature release to Scred. Couldn't get things wrapped out today so we'll probably end up releasing two days later than planned, but that's not too bad.
Good to have spring round the corner. With summer time already it seems that the birds are up and awake at three thirty am. Nice to listen to blackbirds calling to each other while walking from the office to the car. Driving home listened to Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3. But with still running on winter tyres the acoustics were not quite up to it. Switched to Bassoradio instead.
Earlier tonight another Finnish company, Tripsay, was featured on Techcrunch. Apparently they ran out of the two hundred beta invitation tokens released through Techcrunch real quick. Good to see their service featured and received such a lot of interest from the public. Seems like the "travel 2.0" scene is rather hot these days. Lots of companies but no definitive solutions yet. With Lonely Planet having a bit of crisis due to reports that some of their South American guidebooks had less than perfectly verified information, there's certainly an opening for alternative channels distributing travel tips. Remains to be seen how well user generated content will work for travel. With Tripsay I am quite looking forward to their destination recommendation service, but at the moment they need more users willing to generate content. For example, it doesn't help very much that I am one of the only users rating locations around the Levant. But then again, their still in closed beta.
P.S. The approach we pioneered at The Next Web seems to be killer. With a Dutch lunch consisting of a measly sandwich or two, why bother, and especially why bother queuing. First day of Next Web we ended using first half of the lunch break talking to Erick from Techcrunch. And (to our suprise) we ended up being featured later that day. Come Next Web day two Tripsay used the same approach to similar good effect. :-)