I joined TripIt (my profile) a few months back and have been really impressed. Over that time I’ve gotten many of my friends to drink the TripIt kool-aid. The beauty of TripIt to me is that it prints wonderfully, integrates easily into my LinkedIn profile, and is really a nice travel app that doesn’t let its UI get in the way of doing what I want. But it does have its faults.

Specifically, the biggest fault to me is that it does not yet, after 2 years, have a Facebook App so your friends can see your travel plans. So like a traveler in the desert in search of water, I set my sights on finding some possible way to get my travel plans into Facebook for my friends to see.

There was plenty of talk across the web and even on Facebook as to why TripIt should have a Facebook App, but absolutely nothing on if they had a secret one in development or even have any plans at all to make one.

Then, like an oasis in the distance, I found this blog post right under my nose, at TripIt’s own website! The commenter says that they figured out a work around by actually using TripIt’s competitor, Dopplr, and importing in the calendar from his TripIt ical feed. Ingenious!

I set it up and it works perfectly. I find it quite amusing that users are resorting to using the competitors tools against them so they can enjoy TripIt more. I so wish I had thought of that first!