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"Travelistic, which launches today, claims to have \"more video that any other travel site\".  The New-York based service combines user-generated videos with professional content.  The team is notable, too:  it includes former President and CEO of MTVi, Nicholas Butterworth, and former VP of Technology at iFilm, Tatum Lade.  The team adds more than 100 new videos every week, with some of those clips coming from more than 120 Boards of Tourism.  They're also planning to launch a \"Rocketboom of Travel\" - a weekly video blog hosted by select Travelistic users.  They're licensing content, too, with clips from \u201CThirsty Traveler\u201D, a weekly show about wine, beer and spirits; \"Get Out! Girls\", a daily show about girls on tour; and \"Focus On\", a culture show.\nBut the focus of the site is on YouTube-style video-sharing.  Users have profile pages, messaging, networks of friends and the ability to form groups.  There's also a page for every destination, with Google Maps integration, a collection of videos for that location and a list of users who have visited that place or want to visit.  The video player is Flash-based, of course, and lets you embed the clips in external sites like MySpace, blogs, Piczo and hi5.  You can rate videos, too, and explore them based on tags.  Social filters?  They've got those too: you can explore the Featured, Most Viewed and Top Ranked clips, plus the newest uploads (look out for the national tourist boards gaming this system!).  \nIt's a good start.  The idea of a YouTube for travel is fairly obvious, and sites like TurnHere are already trying to mix travel and video.  In the social travel space, meanwhile, TripHub, Gusto and Tripmates are just a few of the contenders.  But video and travel are a great fit, even if Travelistic's attempt is very simple right now. \n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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