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TripIt Takes Another $5.1 Million

TripIt, the social travel management site which I reviewed previously, has received $5.1 million in Series B funding. The funding was provided by Sabre Holdings, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and European Founders Fund. The series B round will be used to expand development, marketing and support for TripIt users.

TripIt has been on a roll aggressively rolling out social and a mobile interface since launching at TechCrunch40 last year.

TripIt Mobile Version Launches

As a member of the frequent flyer club, I have used TripIt and previously reviewed when it first launched. Now TripIt has made traveling easier by adding some additional mobile support for users on the go with the TripIt Mobile release. With TripIt Mobile users can access what they need to know from their mobile phones including flight changes, and in my case cancellations, hotel addresses and phone numbers, and auto rental info. By adding additional integration components for your TripIt account, even restaurant reservations can be accessed.

Making TripIts applications available on mobile devices makes a lot of sense since when you are traveling you are most likely cannot as easily get on your computer.  TripIt offers applications to enable staying in touch with others in your social network, allowing you to schedule appointments if in the same area or at the same event. In checking out the mobile experience I snapped the photo shown here can be visited on your mobile device at: m.tripit.com.

TripIt Adds Location Based Traveler Alerts

TripIt, a travel planner, organizer and social networking site previously reviewed on Somewhat Frank when it launched at TechCrunch40, has added some more social stickiness to the product by exposing when your contacts might have similar travel plans. Since TripIt already offers an number of useful general travel organization and collaboration utilities the new location-based social “closeness” alerts are aimed at helping travels keep better connected with others by making it easier to keep track of when someone may be in your town or your paths cross while on the road by automatically sending out notifications.

TripIt Organizes Your Travel Plans

Are you tired of keeping track of several travel itineraries from your hotel, flight and car rental reservations? TripIt is here to help organize your trips for you. TripIt makes it as easy as forwarding your itineraries to [email protected] and it immediately starts organizing your trips.

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Photo of the Week: This photo titled WEB 2 OH is an artistic take on a license plate I spotted earlier this week.

Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.19.2007