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TripIt is announcing the launch of a mobile service today called TripIt Mobile. TripIt aggregates your trip plans into a nice "folder" for each trip which makes taking the actual trip easier. Instead of carrying around printouts of your travel plans, TripIt can bundle it together and now deliver it directly to your mobile for later retrieval.

The company also noted that the mobile version is great for their "closeness alerts". These alerts tell you when someone on your TripIt friends list is near where you will be near. I wrote about these alerts before and had concerns about the privacy of my trips. Check out the explanation for more details.

I am still looking forward to seeing how this company plans to generate revenue since their service is free. They have a travel search which I am assuming they make a rev share on but isn’t TripIt an "after the purchase" service?

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Last night, I tweeted that there was a ton of spam in one of my feedreaders coming from Tailrank. All of your typical credit card, viagra enhancements, mortgages, etc. spam. Aussie blogger Duncan Riley replied that this has been going on for a long time.

Tony Hung has completed an analysis of the spam on Tailrank and apparently it goes to hacked Wordpress blogs. Have a look at Tony’s post for information about how the hackers are able to gain control over a blog without the author ever realizing it. Basically the hackers put hidden links into every page on your site using CSS to hide the links.

Bottom line: make sure you keep your Wordpress (or other blog software) current. Here’s this morning’s most popular story on Tailrank in the technology category. The link goes to a blog directory that automatically redirects to a drug site.

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