Tripit Adds Calendar Subscription
A few months ago, when the TripIt social travel app was released, I reveiwed it in detail, with mostly positive observations. However, I pointed out a real problem:
Tripit is very neat, and (aside from various UI quibbles) is easy to use and ready to go... except for the real show stoppers: no RSS and no iCal subscriptions. But those should be easily added.
Well, they have countered at least one showstopper: iCal support. However, they managed to add another UI quibble while doing so: they buried the iCal link for the user in the tab for MyFriends. It turns out their is a contact entry for me in the MyFriends area. Hmmm. Shouldn't it be on the MyTrips canvas?
Once I figured that bit of arcana out out I added a new trip to test. I did this in the simplest way possible: by forwarding a Jetblue itinerary email to the service. TripIt neatly parses the email and creates a new trip entry. I love that feature!
The event immediately showed in the TripIt calendar subscribed to in iCal:
Now all I have to do is switch over to TripIt as my travel logistics calendar, and continue to use Dopplr as my Dopplr as my location calendar. Bit of a hassle, but the benefits of the two services seem to justify it.
Stowe - As always, you are a most perceptive quibbler. iCal is now where it should be.
Please keep the feedback coming!
Posted by: Gregg Brockway (TripIt) | December 06, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Google Calendar Support?
Posted by: Lee White | December 07, 2007 at 07:45 AM