when I was a kid, I recall how much fun it was to watch home movies of Aunt Mildred's vacation looking for lawn elves collections

When 65 employees can create $1.65 Billion worth of value that Google wants to buy, is it any wonder that everyone asks 'how can I do that?'


Wait a minute, how about mixing summer vacations, travel, video, social-networking, tagging, and user profiles!!! Talk about being Web 2.0 compliant. Oh, darn. That just got launched today under the name Travelistic. The only thing their missing are a few Google maps mash-ups.

Under the highly imaginative tagline "Watch Where You're Going," Travelistic will also add professionally produced programs. One of them should appeal to most of my friends: 'The Thirsty Traveler' which visits wine producing regions. Travelistic has videos from 120 boards of tourism and is adding more every week.

So, before you upload last summer's video of your best friend trying the coke/mentos experiment in front of Mount Rushmore, bare in mind that videos are reviewed by Travelistic to meet basic standards for quality and content before being ranked.

More direct competitors include travel video sites such as TurnHere and 43 Places.