[evanb]

One thing that makes me nervous about these kinds of "store your memories here" sites is that, to be frank, the site may disappear with all of my memories.

I would love to use this, but then host the resulting content myself. Maybe you could offer exporting a trip for a fee?

[ams6110]

Exporting a bunch of photos that presumably you uploaded yourself? Don't you already have them?

What I think of is the classic comedy sketch scenario of being invited to a friends house to view a slideshow or home movies of their last trip.

People like to share this stuff... that's obvious. What seems harder to admit is that nobody else cares.

[napoleond]

Depends on the trip. I went on a long bicycle tour a couple years ago, and had over 100 people regularly visiting the blog I'd set up for the trip. It wasn't set up for publicity, I just set it up to share with friends and family (and most of the visitors were friends and family, just further extended than I'd expected). I met several people riding to raise money for charities; they had even more followers on shitty little Wordpress blogs. I know of people that volunteer in remote locations who also have a similar following, and I have friends who perform in ultra-endurance athletic events (think 3-day trail races and the like) who also publish race updates to a more-than-50-person following every time they go. So I think you're right that nobody cares about someone's most recent all-inclusive resort vacation, but I think there are many people who are interested in living vicariously through the adventures of others (possibly moreso if the "others" are somehow known to them) if the adventures really are unique.

During and since that trip, I have often thought about building something to make sharing those kind of experiences easier. I think TripStamp hits some of those points, but one major problem that would be difficult for TripStamp to solve in its current incarnation is that of being able to make updates while offline, and have them sync whenever internet is available. (I'd often write blog posts in my tent at night and then upload them from whatever public WiFi I could find the next day, and I think that would apply even more to people travelling in remote locations where a lot of this "exciting" travel happens.)

[riffraff]

I'm with grandparent on this, the point of exporting would be to export the result of the scrapbook composition, layout, etc

On the "who cares" side: it's actually an improvement to be able to say on $socialnetwork "here's my trip, take a look at it" rather than having to sit your friend through a one hour show off :)

[evanb]

If it were just a photo album I would be totally with you. I already just store my photo "albums" in a folder on my hard drive, and upload a few here and there.

However, there's the mapping and the layout, as riffraff points out. There's not really a quick and easy way for me to create this kind of integrated thing myself.

[teddiekgb]

allowing the user the host the resulting content themselves is not something we had thought about. We have however discussed the possibility of allowing bloggers and the like to 'embed' a trip into their own web page. thanks for your input and we will think about how we can implement your idea.