Social Networking Goes to the Airport

Want up-to-the-minute airport info from real travelers? Check out Orbitz's recently launched Traveler Update, which Gridskipper calls "a Twitter-like application that encourages users to tell one another about delays, cheap parking, shortcuts, Wi-Fi spots and other airport ephemera." On the site you can submit and read airport tips and updates, and you can rate other travelers' postings as helpful or unhelpful--and see your posts' stats, too. And, of course, the app is accessible from mobile devices. So go tell the world about your epic wait in a security line or a peculiarly empty section of a parking garage.--Francine Kizner