Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 16, 2006.
Website TripConnect creates conversations between users about travel destinations and tips.
TripConnect allows you to get travel advice from a network of friends and others who share your tastes and interests. The truth is, most people don’t know the majority of places to which even close friends have traveled, and indeed, someone in your larger network of acquaintances and friends of friends has probably been to almost any place you can think of.
TripConnect allows you to tap into all the travel knowledge that exists in your network, to get the best advice from the best source: friends, family and people who share your tastes and interests.
It can be a real pain planning a vacation to a place you know nothing about - TripConnect seeks to ease your pain and make sure you’re planning your trip based on recommendations you trust. And if things do go awry, you can blame your friends rather than yourself!
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 16, 2006.
Here comes another interesting product from 37Signals, makers of Backpack and Basecamp. This time it’s a chat-like application. But don’t confuse it with Instant Messaging.
Instant messaging is great for one-on-one chats, but it’s not optimized for group chats of 3 or more people. Further, instant messaging is network dependent — if you are on AIM, and your client is on MSN, you can’t instant message. Campfire, on the other hand, is all about simple and quick network-agnostic group chats. It’s a self-contained, password-protected web-based chatroom that allows groups of up to 30 people to chat and easily share files together. No instant messaging software is required — all that’s required is a web browser.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 15, 2006.
The four horsemen of the PDA apocalypse are mounted up and ready to ride, and Palm OS is now officially dead. With Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 now running on Palm devices and Palm OS developer PalmSource long since sold to the Japanese company Access, it was only a matter of time before this announcement came along. Access is putting Palm OS to bed in favor of a completely rebranded and totally redesigned mobile operating system built entirely on Linux. The new OS will still run legacy Palm software in addition to lots of Linux-based apps, but it won’t even have the word "palm" in the name. Instead, it’ll be called Access Linux Platform. Of course, it’ll be a while before the new OS comes to a handheld near you, as the developer’s kit won’t even be available until much later this year.
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