Managing Your travel Plans"TripSync"

TripSync, an exciting new Web 2.0 app that allows you to book, change, and manage travel plans directly from your calendar. Once you use the easy drag and drop interface to book your flight, rental car, and hotel accommodations through an automatic search of leading global distribution systems, your travel data is uploaded to your calendar in Outlook. From that point, you can click into components of your itinerary on your calendar and review/modify your plans– essentially, it’s a live data itinerary. Even more, the app allows you to keep others (your boss, your co-workers, your nagging wife) abreast of changes you make to your travel plans. TripSync was developed by veteran business travelers who understand how smaller businesses work, so I’m hoping that this tool will be of use to a lot of you. I didn’t fully understand its functionality until I viewed their demo– so that’s a good starting point .

WhiskeyMilitia

The new website WhiskeyMilitia sells one piece of marked-down skate/snow/surf gear for at least 50% off beginning each night at midnight MST until it’s gone. Sound familiar? It’s the same model as woot! and SteepandCheap, but for skaters instead of computer geeks or backcountry gear nerds. Today’s the first day, and there’s a Darkstar complete skateboard for $50.