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September 14, 2011 02:52 am GMT
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Trippy: Bringing Your Friends And Social Recommendations To Travel Planning
There are hundreds of travel sites out there that will help you plan your trip, but often these guides come in the form of game-ified networks or consist mainly of questionable crowdsourced content from local experts -- in other words, strangers. More often than not, these people are incentivized to write reviews, making the information questionable at best. Granted, there are some cool startups, like Triposo and Gogobot out there, but sites and apps like the former are taking an algorithmic approach to travel recommendations -- no real people in sight.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VPFBmtW29HY/
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