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Dopplr.com – How to keep track of your frequent business traveling trips

Anthony — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:04:10 +0000

URL:

http://www.dopplr.com

What is Dopplr?

Dopplr is a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allows users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts’ travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey. Additional features include allowing the user to calculate the carbon footprint their journeys have produced. The site is named after Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Dopplr

You can tie in your Flickr image stream to your Dopplr account so that you can share the pictures you take at the different locations that you travel and share them with your friends and family that traveled to the same destinations. It’s also a great way to keep track of all the places that your friends and family are traveling.

Here’s a quick video on Dopplr:

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Jott.com – How to listen to Twitter updates on your cell phone

Anthony — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:04:43 +0000

URL:

http://www.jott.com

What is Jott?

Jott is a voice-to-text transcription service which allows its users to call a toll-free telephone number and speak for up to 30 seconds. The speech is then transcribed to text using a combination of software and human transcribers who work in a “sterile environment which also includes medical dictation.” The message can be sent back to oneself, turned into a reminder, sent to a contact or group, or sent to a third-party “Jott link” such as LiveJournal. Transcribed messages can be delivered to recipients via email, text message, or both. (read more a Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Jott

You can subscribed to different Jott feeds that when you call the Jott phone number you can listen to updates such as sport scores, your friends Twitter updates, world news and more. The free Jott service allows you to use this feature.

Here’s a quick video on Jott:

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MyMileMarker.com – Accurately calculate how much gas you spend

Anthony — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:04:05 +0000

URL:

http://www.mymilemarker.com

What is MyMileMarker?

MyMileMarker (M3), is a system that allows you to track the number of miles you drive, how much gas you spend, and your miles per gallon accurately. Each time you fill up your tank of gas, make sure to add a new record into M3 and it will start to project estimated miles for the year, gas spending, and miles per gallon.

What you may not know about MyMileMarker

You can use your mobile phone to enter a new record. So no more waiting to get home to enter your recent tank of gas. Bookmark this on your cell phone: m.mymilemarker.com/m and next time you’re at the pump filling up, add a record for your current mileage, amount of gallons you put in your car and how much you it cost per gallon. Over time it will track your driving trends inside of your MyMileMarker account.

Here’s a quick video for you:

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Farecast.com – Email me when to buy the cheapest airline fares

Anthony — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:04:10 +0000

URL:

http://www.farecast.com

What is Farecast?

Farecast is the first airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry. Within the travel industry, Farecast is the only website to offer predictions on when is the best time to purchase airline tickets. Farecast has collected over 175 billion airfare observations to date. Farecast’s team of data miners use these airfare observations to build algorithms to predict future airfare price movements. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Farecast

Farecast can sent you email alerts when the best time to buy airline tickets. Using a very complex prediction algorithm, you can gets sent you when flights to your favorite destination drop below a price that you set. No more having to determine when to wait or where to buy tickets. Let Farecast do it for you.

In the video below I show you how to use Farecast to setup email alerts to find the best price for an upcoming vacation:

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