Now we have made it easier for facebook users to sign up with GS using their facebook account. Being able to sign up and sign in with facebook account means that it’s just that simple to start using GS and build your travel profile.

How-To

If you are new to GS, you can sign up with GuidingShadow using your facebook account. A new GS account will be created for you and your facebook account is linked to it.
If you are an existing GS member, you can connect your facebook account with your already existing GS account. And there after you can use your facebook account to log into GuidingShadow.
No worries! It’s completely optional. If you want to keep your facebook and GS accounts separate, you can still use your username and password to log into GS.

We feel its cool! Check out yourself and let us know if you find it interesting.

Keep pouring in your suggestions and any new features you wish to see on GS. We are happy to take your comments.

We tuned the interface where you enter your trip details, so that the information is more organized and can be leveraged by other travellers planning their trips.

Route details – Google Maps Integration

Now you can map your trips and let others know how did you travel!

Create a route for your trip by adding destinations, mode of transport and travel time in our easy to use interface. Also, include any stops in between for break journeys.

If you are not sure about any place, you can verify it on Google Maps by just clicking on verify map in our auto-suggestions box.

Yes, you add the destinations and we will generate a route for your trip and show it on Google Maps.

Hotels, Restaurants Details

You can write the hotel/restaurant reviews, rate them and give their contact information so that it helps future travellers. If you have stayed at multiple hotels in multiple destinations, you can write reviews about each one of them individually. Other trip members can also give their opinion/reviews by commenting on the hotels/restaurants.

Budget and other suggestions

Write about the expenses and approximate budget for the trip. Also you can suggest must visit places and thing one must do during this trip. Let your experiences help others, write some suggestions like things to carry, best time to visit etc.

Trip Sharing on Social Networks

Earlier we had given you option to share your trips on Twitter and Facebook, Now you can share and promote your trips on Orkut as well.

We are continuously working on new features and improving existing features. Please provide your valuable feedback, suggestions on these features and help us improve even more.

Keep visiting the blog for more updates and log all your trips

Happy logging!

2009 has been a wonderful year for travel because of the long weekends. The Indian tourism industry has grown many folds during this year inspite of the economic slowdown. Travellers, both foreign and domestic, have been flocking to the tourist places. Hope you had a fruitful travel year 2009.

With the recovery of Indian economy after the global meltdown, there are predictions floating around that say people might travel more in 2010. So, why wait? Start planning your trips @ Guiding Shadow.

We are giving you the list of holidays in 2010 for your reference.

January
26 (Tuesday) – Republic Day

February
27 (Saturday) – Milad-Un-Nabi or Id-E-Milad

March
01 (Monday) – Holi
24 (Wednesday) – Ram Navami
28 (Sunday) – Mahavir Jayanti

April
02 (Friday) – Good Friday

May
27 (Thursday) – Buddha Purnima

August
15 (Sunday) – Independence Day

September
02 (Thursday) – Janamashtami
11 (Saturday) – Idu’l Fitr

October
02 (Saturday) – Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday
17 (Sunday) – Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami)

November
05 (Friday) – Diwali (Deepavali)
17 (Wednesday) – Idu’l Zuha (Bakrid)
21 (Sunday) – Guru Nanak’s Birthday

December
17 (Friday) – Muharram
25 (Saturday) – Christmas Day

In this year, we promise to roll out very useful features for travellers. We have been constantly trying to intregrate new features and provide more travel related information in our site.
Some of the immediate upcoming features we are working on are -
- Google map integration to provide detailed route information for each trip.
- Provision to add hotels and restaurants in your trips.

I’ll write more about these features in the future posts. Keep visiting our blog for regular updates on what’s happening at Guiding Shadow.
And don’t forget to log your trips!
Happy travelling!

Today, I am excited to announce the release of few new features.

Flickr and Picasa Web Integration

Bothered about uploading trip photos multiple times on different sites? No worries ! Guiding Shadow allows users to add photos in their trip album directly from popular photo storage sites (Flickr and Picasaweb). Just integrate your Flickr and Picasaweb accounts with your Guiding Shadow account. We’ll fetch all your photos; select the photos you wish to add into your trip album and its done. Your trip album is populated.

View Trip Invitations status

Now you can check the pending ‘trip invitations’ sent by you in your settings page. You can also resend the invitation to join the trip directly from the settings page.

We appreciate any feedback on these features …

We are live with free trip logging online web service for travel lovers. Now travellers can manage their trips at one place, discuss the trip with fellow travellers and share the trip with photos and experiences, with the world.

Check out the cool features we offer.

I am sure you have visited to many tourist places already… so why wait.. log all your trips here.

Keep visiting the blog for announcements, new feature updates and any news related to travel and guidingshadow.com.

Happy logging!
Cheers.