TripHub Now Dead

Back in June, I mentioned mentioned TripHub, a site which I’d used previously for group trip planning.

Well frankly I haven’t used it in a while, and so was sad to see a post on TechCrunch today, which lead me to TripHub’s site:

“TripHub’s trip planning service will no longer be available after Friday August 22, 2008….”What happened?” There is no single, simple answer to this question. Certainly we made mistakes, and unfortunately we were impacted by factors beyond our control including the current economic environment and state of the travel industry….”

I’m sorry to see TripHub go, but at the same time I’m not surprised.  They simply ran out of money, and there was nothing adequately distinguishing about it to attract either users or investors.  There are just too many Web 2.0 travel sites, and TripHub won’t be the last one to close.