Tripit,
one of the companies that launched
at TechCrunch40 is an extremely useful application for frequent
travelers.
It’s dead simple to use and it keeps you organized - all you have to
do is forward confirmation emails to them when you purchase airline
tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, etc. Tripit pulls the relevant
information out of the emails and builds an organized itinerary for you.
You can send emails in any order, for multiple trips, whatever. It just
figures everything out and organizes it.
The best part is you don’t even need to register to start using it.
Just take an email and forward it to plans@tripit.com. Within seconds
you’ll get a confirmation email back and you go from there. If it
doesn’t recognize the email format from the seventy travel companies
they currently support (orbitz, united airlines, marriott, etc.), you can
add the information in directly on the website.

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit CEO Greg Brockway is launching a new
feature that makes the service even more useful, particularly on a mobile
device (what you have with you when you travel). You email a basic command
to the service and it responds with relevant information. “Get Flight
Today” will return today’s flight information, for example. Or just
“Get Trip” to get full details of your most current trip. Or just
email “Help” to get a list of possible commands and modifiers.
San Francisco-based TripIt has raised $1 million from O’Reilly
AlphaTech Ventures
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