Travel with a Buddy – Personal travel assistant site Tripit (which we’ve written about before) is taking a step beyond just helping you organize all the emails that make up a travel itinerary. Now they want to help you share your trips with friends and colleagues, with the addition of social networking features to their site.
If you’ve got a Tripit account, you can start importing friends, either by entering email addresses or grabbing a whole address book from Gmail, Hotmail, LinkedIn, or other serves. Once you have a critical mass of friends online, you can start seeing which ones are going to be in the same area as you (and vice versa). The “closeness” notification happens automatically, but you have to actually share a trip for your friends to see the details of your itinerary.
Easy Excel Sharing – If you need to collaborate on Excel spreadsheets (on Windows, at least), take a look at eXpresso. It’s a software as a service offering that lets you upload your spreadsheets, share them, and collaborate in real time. Features include region-based security, email alerts, file comparison, and file history. Looks like a solid alternative to Google Documents if you need all the functionality of Excel but still want that online sharing goodness.
Social Networking Survey – Over at our sister site FoundRead, they’re investigating how social networking tools can help us all work better. One way you can help is to visit that page and click through to take the survey on the State of Social Networking. You’ll be entered into a drawing for an Apple iPhone if you do.
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