TripSay.com - World Of Mouth

TripSay combines travel recommendations from people you know with a travel information search engine. All the 260.000 places they've gathered are shown as icons on a map with information pulled from across different sources on the web like Flickr and Wikitravel. TripSay makes it easy to find relevant information about places from the people you have chosen to trust. In TripSay you can easily keep track of where your friends and people with similar taste travel and get their insight on those places. On top of that they use Amazon-like collaborative filtering in order to show you first content that is written or preferred by your trusted contacts. Too many sites these days are cluttered with text and links and the information is buried there somewhere. They help you find what you are looking for and make you discover new things that you did not yet know to look for. No longer you need to surf dozens of sites, read guidebooks and browse maps while sending emails with your friends. TripSay makes travel planning easier and fun.

“TripSay is a new travel website that will help to make the way you plan your next holiday trip much faster, easier and more fun.”

The problem today is not the lack of information; it is finding the information relevant to you without spending endless amounts of time reading through random reviews and articles. Search engines give you millions of hits and travel sites typically give the same information to every visitor, regardless of your interests, who you are or what you're looking for. There's just too much information and not a real solution to find what you need. They have collected over 260.000 travel related places onto a map as well information on all those places from public sources like Flickr, Wikitravel, dozens of travel content sites and their users. All this is filtered to you by your trusted network you have hand picked so that you’ll find only the most interesting information from the vast amounts of information available. What’s best you can keep yourself all the time up to date with cool travel tips on the places and activities you like, even if you’re not actively planning a vacation.

How are they planning to compete with so many other sites that offer a similar service?