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Tripline is a traveler’s app that combines the powers of Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and its own tools to create an interactive itinerary of past and future trips that users can share with their friends. Tripline, which launched in August 2010, was founded by ex-Yahoo employee Byron Dumbrill, and was created when Dumbrill and his fiancee were planning a lengthy trip to Costa Rica. The interactive and embeddable maps appear like a timeline of stops within a country or city....

Being able to follow along with the local language and culture when traveling can really enhance the overall experience, but what about if you’re in the military and you’re stationed in a place where having a grasp on both can be even more helpful? Well, for American troops stationed in Afghanistan, the team atTripLingohas developed a Dari version of its popular language app that allows those with iPhones the ability to break down the language barrier....

Planning a trip is difficult, there’s a lot of homework to do on places, especially if you’ve never been. There are a ton of books and of course you have Google to search for all of the cool places to go. However, wouldn’t it be nice if your friends could plan your trip for you based on their experiences? That’s whatTrippyis for. The company has a site and an iOS app that lets you set a location of where you’d like to travel to....

Last week,Liverpool fcplayer Ryan Babel got into all sorts of bother for an inappropriate tweet. He wasn’t too happy about a penalty given against Liverpool for Manchester United in theirFA Cuptie and sent a tweet which pictured the referee in a Manchester United jersey. He wrote “And they call him one of the best referees? That’s a joke” He later apologized but not before the incident was all over the media and before the FA announced they would be charging him for the matter....

The Internet is amazing. It’s connective and informative powers provide us with access to an entirely new and constantly changing universe. But as individuals we have to realize that our online engagement creates an alternative, digital persona- a persona that can be judged as aFacebookprofile, aTwitterhandle or a made-up email in a Craigslist ad. And with the popularity of location based apps on the rise, the boundary between the web and real life is rapidly dissolving....