Last week business oriented social network site LinkedIn launched its opensocial application platform called InApps as an answer to the similar platforms found on competing social network sites such as Myspace and Facebook. Major difference between the application platform on competing sites is the intention and quality LinkedIn is looking for with these applications; all applications will have to go through a quality assurance process before being accepted by LinkedIn and all applications are limited to business purposes.

At the launch of the platform LinkedIn is featuring several interesting applications such as a presentation sharing application from slideshare and google presentations, feed articles from Wordpress, reading list application from Amazon and several application which were developed inhouse. Also, one of the more interesting applications available at launch was a trip application from social travel website TripIt.

Being asked to develop an application with a potential user base of over 30 million members, not even mentioning the enormous amount of exposure and attention, we can’t imagine TripIt having had any doubts participating in the project. The last few months TripIt have been working on this application, which resulted in them having the only travel related application available at the launch of the LinkedIn application platform.

The My Travel application on LinkedIn is directly connected to a TripIt account and lets you see where and when connections from your LinkedIn network are traveling. Providing the option of generating alerts for connections traveling close , the application enables LinkedIn members to connect with other connections when for example attending an industry event. My Travel can also displays current locations, upcoming trips and travel stats on LinkedIn profiles. Those who use the application can create trips either manually via LinkedIn or use TripIt’s available services.

The partnership with LinkedIn is an addition to the increase of services provided through social travel website TripIt, which now supports over 250 services. TripIt can automatically organize all your travel plans into one master online itinerary with everything you need for your trip such as travel confirmations, weather forecasts, maps of the surroundings and city guides. TripIt can automatically retrieve information from other services and uses this information to provide you with a single source travel directory. Among the services supported are Google Maps, Wikipedia and Flickr. You can also send your travel confirmations to your personalized TripIt email address which will then import these travel confirmations into your travel itinerary.

If you are using both LinkedIn and TripIt you visit the LinkedIn Application Directory to install My Travel. We expect more people familiar with LinkedIn though, so we suggest you see for yourself what TripIt has to offer.

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