Photos: Five business traveller-friendly mash-ups

A pinch of Google Maps, a dash of Technorati and a sprinkling of Skype...

The idea behind web mash-ups is to create a new service by combining one or more aspects of existing sites, thereby cutting out the need to surf your way around the web. As such, they can be a handy time-saving tool if you're on the road with limited browsing time. So we've trawled the web to come up with five mash-ups with something to offer the business traveller - whether it's help finding a good hotel or a quick and easy way to get your RSS fix.

Find a hotel
Blending Google Maps with its own video footage of hotels, this mash-up reckons it can help you find a place to rest your head at the end of a hard day. It covers Western European capitals at present - and only a selection of hotels in those cities - but the vision of video content showcasing the reality of that four-star port of call sounds is worth chasing.
Mash me up: http://www.tvtrip.com

Image credit: TVtrip.com

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  1. 1. anonymous

    Sounds a disaster to let amoral search engines make any suggestions on where might be safe & good to stay - if they think showing video of someone being beaten up is OK I hate to think what we might get booked into.

    Last nights Panorama makes me think Google can never be trusted.

    • 31 July 2007 17:17
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