My recent trip to Michigan for Adam and Emily’s Wedding ended up being a nice showcase of Web 2.0 technology. Leading up to the trip, I bookmarked things to see and tagged them “michigan” in del.icio.us. I used Orbitz to find out if using airline miles for the flight would be a good deal and how the selected hotel stacked up. One of the reviews provided a great tip: joining the free hotel club got you free wifi! (Plus beer and candy on arrival.)
Since I was driving, it was also handy to see where everything was on a custom Google My Map. One feature that would be nice to add is the ability to get directions form one placemark to another; add that my todo list of Greasemonkey scripts.
It worked out so well, I’m starting to do the same for next year’s snowboarding trip to Whistler: bookmarks and map.
del.icio.us/mbotos
