• as much as you like to share you experiences, you just don’t have that much time to actually cover in detail your trip through posts (which means writing a lot);
• even if you do have time to write, you may forget to cover the things others need to make a decision of visiting a place or not.

So in order to make TrippyDoo more useful for you we’ve changed the perspective – from just covering your travel experiences, to recommending a destination you’ve visited to your friends and other travelers like you.

This change of perspective had significant implications in the way we’ve built TrippyDoo as far as structure and possibilities we’ve given you to participate in the community we want to get together. To be more clear, we have updated TrippyDoo with the following:

• Create/edit a trip – you can now edit every field inline, in the same page, without having to open that editor we had for the posts;
• Second – there are no more posts (yay!:D), but a simple inline trip format with the following components: name of the trip, location, recommendations (i.e. adventure, beach, sightseeing), things you liked/things you didn’t like, budget (how much you spent there), photo & video gallery (import from Facebook/Picasa), Places to eat and Places to stay (just add the name of the rest/hotel, we’ll find you a relevant photo, and you simply type a short review), and Notes – free field where you can add the trip’s story we so much want to read about.
• We’ve also removed the Groups for now because we felt the need to rethink them and make them better and more useful for you.

All in all, this is how a new trip is looking right now: Naples, Italy trip. Please go log in and check out your trips and your friends’ trips as well, as we had to restructure them in their new format.

Again, these changes are meant to make TrippyDoo more useful for you when you plan a trip to say Naples, and not just to add your travel stories. Please send us you thoughts, complaints, bugs and the like directly to hello [at] trippydoo.com to solve them asap.

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We would like to thank the private beta testers that help us with going public today. Without your feedback it wouldn’t have been possible.

The open beta version of TrippyDoo has many new features, but most importantly – we fixed bugs on the private beta release

What you can now do on TrippyDoo:

- Share your experiences from your trips with your friends, even with your friends from Facebook or Twitter, with just one click. We worked a simple inline edit mechanism, to save you time and hassle.
- Also, you can easily import your photos from Facebook and Picasa – no need to do another upload from your computer
- You can now add Tips to each of your trips, to let other know what’s not to miss!
- Don’t forget to add reco’s for Places to stay & Places to eat! You’ll thank others for these when you’ll plan your next vacation, trust me
- We’ve also placed a travel status bar in the homepage, where you can share your travel thoughts with everyone around & post it to your Twitter and Facebook accounts too.
- And finally – you can now simply log in with you Facebook or Twitter account!

We’re really happy to be finally open, because know we can share the love with you and together we can built the best place for travelers on the Internet. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

In the mean time the team goes back to work, as we have a lot of cool stuff on our roadmap.

But now it’s weekend, and TrippyDoo means traveling & fun ! So go on, discover new  and interesting places. We’ll be here, fixing TrippyDoo here and there, and trying to make traveling easier.

Why ask the agents for “tourist attractions” when you can see the place through the eyes of a person like you? Why go in the already crowded places, when you can enjoy a deserted beach someone discovered & shared here?! Why stay in a fancy hotel, when you can spend a few days living like the locals?

Well, the thing is that we need your help to make TrippyDoo the place for experiential traveling. So bear with us a few moments more as we’re almost good to go into private beta.