A recent ILM report has revealed that over two-thirds of UK workers can’t help but check their emails while they’re on holiday. Sound familiar? Well, it might be about time to make a little more positive use of that Smartphone addiction. Remember sitting through your Uncle’s tiresome post-holiday slideshow and marvelling at all the little boxes of slides? There’s now a Web 2.0 way to deliver a much richer version of that very experience – while you’re on holiday. Tripline, launched in beta this week, gives you the tools to create an interactive story of your holiday; a way to plan and share your trip while you’re there, and a much more exciting way to tell everyone about it when you get home. Beyond sharing, Tripline obviously also makes bragging rights far easier to come by, combining your Foursquare check-ins, Facebook status updates, tweets, and Flickr uploads onto your geographical journey. It’s more than just a map mash-up; it’s a story of your holiday in real-time. As Techcrunch point out, Tripline isn’t in of itself unique, but what’s caught our eye is the fact that (unlike Where I’ve Been) when the user base reaches critical mass, it could offer real-time stay/eat/drink/do recommendations. A future for the suffering travel guide publishers perhaps?

Thanks to TechCrunch and PSFK for the nod about Tripline.

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