Comments on: Do We Really Need TripIt?

By: TechCrunch50 Finalists: First Impressions : The Drama 2.0 Show

TechCrunch50 Finalists: First Impressions : The Drama 2.0 Show — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:31 +0000

[...] the world need yet another travel planner? Adena DeMonte of GigaOm asked this back in September 2007. TrueCar - A site that allows users to assess the current market value of [...]

By: Henrico Dolfing

Henrico Dolfing — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:39:16 +0000

Now, almost one year later … when I have to anser the question: Yes, we need TripIt. It is a great tool (and no, I am not working for TripIt)!

By: Kango Traveler

Kango Traveler — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:14:17 +0000

I have to say that if you do have a group of folks dispersed across the country (or globe) and you want to not deal with 8-9 phone calls/emails this tool works pretty well,

will people use it extensively? that's the beauty of this site, it does not rely on traditional social networking limitations of needing a huge critical mas sof users, it is useful right away; so I'd say it has a pretty good chance of success.

By: ksmith

ksmith — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:19:29 +0000

We actually used TripIt beta for a group of friends’ weekend trip and found it worked great for us. Especially when remembering potential noted spots people wanted to go to. We could just go on iphone and grab the itinerary, location, phone number, map of the place…and go. Did more dreaming up cool stuff we could potentially visit and making notes in TripIt we could all see, than wasting time during the vacation trying to rally everyone together.

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:05:57 +0000

I think the general public realise that these types of company are brokers or middle-men and therefore are less trusting of them. Can’t the backers of these start-ups find a new innovative bandwagon to jump on?

By: TripIt Is Genuinely Useful « Screenwerk

TripIt Is Genuinely Useful « Screenwerk — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:39:08 +0000

[...] While I liked the email functionality and other stuff on the site, over at GigaOm they did not. [...]

By: The Foo

The Foo — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:07:51 +0000

One thing that is not particularly clear to me is the way the information is processed through the "TripIt Itinerator"" -- is it processed manually from the email?

I would like to know more about that part as it is fuzzy there and they don't really explain more about it. My usage of it will depend on the answer to the above. If it is processed manually (or even automatically), what are the chances of mistakes. If I am going to be fully dependent on this services, I want the guarantee that there won't be a typo, screw up or adding an extra digit or so. Will they take responsibility on that part for missing a flight or important business appointment because of a wrong itinerary?

Until I hear that they have 100% accountability on mistakes made, I will not use it as there will always be that fear. Confirmation numbers won't prove anything as a third part provider (Tripit) has reprocessed the information. Plus, if the itinerary is wrong, what if you left the originals at home or (worse case scenario) threw it away and you have no access to the web to check?

I wish that was asked at Techcrunch40.

By: rossdborden

rossdborden — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:35:34 +0000

The problem isn’t that there are too many ‘travel start-ups’…it’s that too many of them do the same thing. The creative ones pushing in new directions will survive…

By: grah

grah — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:02:51 +0000

“The online travel market will grow to $128 billion in 2011 from $85 billion in 2006, according to Jupiter Research” — That’s US only and probably the most conservative forecast I’ve seen for quite some time.

Do we really need TripIt? It’s not going to hurt. The online travel innovation cycle needs to be sped waaay up. The more in this space, the better for everyone.