Embedding Trip Pictures and Data to a Blog

I have always been interested in the different ways you can embed outside data to your blog or website through various APIs. I've decided that I will use a mixture of three different providers offerings to track my trip.

They are:

Google Latitude
Google Latitude allows you to see where your friends are and what they are up to, quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call and control what your location is and who gets to see it. My interest is in the location tracking. As I move from city to city, I'd like to track where I am going, train's I am taking and most of all cities and landmarks I am visiting.

Twitter
I know there are a lot of twitter haters out there, but for a trip like this, I think their offering works best. I can easily link my twitter account to my other social networking sites and save the hassle of replicating everything out.

SmugMug
I am opting to purchase an account through SmugMug for a few reasons. First, they have upload through email. Most places have this, but SmugMug also has customizable galleries, an application for iPhones with GeoTag uploading, high definition video uploads and from what I have been told, good customer service because of the relatively small company size.


Blogger also allows remote posting through email in case you find yourself in a bind.

The data that I post to these sites, will in turn be replicated to my facebook page and other social networking sites via RSS, as they are now. Right now, it is simply a matter of pressing the activate button and embedding the widgets.

Passport has arrived!

My passport is here! Time to start getting things in order. I've also noticed that airfare is dropping the longer you hold off. As much as I hate waiting, I will probably purchase airfare 2.5-3 weeks out.