Some updates to travel planning site TripIt were reviewed on TechCrunch today. The biggest new feature looks like a slick way to pull together your travel plans into an iCal feed. Seriously, check it out if you’re looking for a good way to share your itinerary with other folks or collect all the details for your own reference.

I’ll definitely be trying this out next time I go to a conference. Combine that with a FuseCal feed to pull the conference schedule itself from the web, and I’ll have no excuse not to be in all the right places at all the right times (unless, of course, there’s an open bar calling my name!).

Okay, you MacBook-toting hipsters out there… here’s a good one for ya…

So you’ve used FuseCal to move all your events to iCal, and now you want to throw some GTD goodness into the mix…? No sweat. Just surf on over to 43F Recap: Best of iCal Tips, where Merlin Mann has a few tricks up his sleeve to totally pump up your iCal Fu.  Hiiiyaaa!

For the enterprise set: A recent discussion on Slashdot focused on Quality Open Source Calendaring & Scheduling Options. Lots of talk about CalDAV, Zimbra, pencils in space, and more! Worth a gander if you’re in the market for some serious groupware, but afraid that an Exchange server will eat your children. (I’ve heard things….)

The ever-thorough folks over at Mashable have compiled a crazy-huge list of 65+ online calendars and calendar tools, including a bunch I hadn’t used yet.  Most of them appear to support the iCal format, which means they’ll play nice with FuseCal.

Who loves you, baby?

Hey kids! It’s your favorite Uncle Matt, here with an important message… The FuseCal alpha is alive!!!

That’s right: we’ve deployed to our fancy new production servers, and we’re ready to serve your online calendaring needs. So, be a good friend and kick the tires for me.