Triposo wants to put social travel guides to shame

July 04, 2012 | Online Travel

Two ex-Googlers launched a new mobile travel platform called Triposo, which takes an algorithmic approach to travel records. This approach allows it to come up with relevant suggestions no matter where you are, with little effort required from the end users, making for what the founders call a “lean-back travel experience."

While the app represents a big step forward for travel guides, it’s still a work in progress, and the co-founders tell us that they’re now developing a big “version 2″ of the app, which they hope to launch around the first of August. Stay tuned for more on that - assuming, of course, it doesn’t suck.

Triposo’s algorithmic model is an interesting point of differentiation in comparison to the friend-sourced and social authentication of travel sites like Gogobot, Trippy, and Tripping. (Though really the ones that stand to lose are traditional travel publishers, like Lonely Planet.) Not only that, but the better it can adjust to real world cues (location, weather, etc.) and serve useful recommendations accordingly, the more Triposo will stand out from the field. Utility + relevance + entertainment = happy travelers.

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