Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

For those of you that don't know, Yahoo!Travel recently promoted Trip Planner out of Beta.

It's gotten a lot of great press (and rightly so). It's a very handy way for folks to plan and share get-away plans and vacations. Thing is, I was talking to some folks from Y!Travel and pointed out that you can use this for stuff other than trips too.

Let's you have a band, it can be yours or someone else's, it doesn't really matter. They're a Death Metal Polka Ska band that spends most of their free time doing one state fair tour after another and who's lead singer has a thing for Wafflehouse. Ok, maybe not. So let's say that they're a semi-geeky indie rock guy that someone might actually want to listen to. Ooh, bonus! A not ugly at all Myspace page.

So, let's say that you're going to be loading up the VW and following his gig schedule for the next couple of weeks. You could print out the gig list and try to find food and hotels on your own, or you could use TripPlanner and let it do the work for you.

Now, you can use the map view to show you hotels in the area you can crash at, where you can refuel, and where you can meet up with other Groupies on the tour. Plus, you can leave comments, flickr pictures, a pretty nice blog "journal" page, and all sorts of other stuff too.

Not into following rockstars? How's about your favorite team's away games? The Tour de' California? Stalk your favorite celebrities shopping places?

Just because it's called "Trip Planner" doesn't mean you have to use it to plan trips.

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