Sosauce, the aesthetically-pleasing network designed for sharing photos and travel adventures, has rolled out two new major updates, both of which revolve around the sharing of media in an enlightening environment.
Expanding on its existing travel features, Sosauce's new Travel Guide works in conjunction with the site's travel recording tool for improved journey-sharing capabilities. This reflects Sosauce's desire to become a more comprehensive service for planning trips, recording trips, and seeking advice from others, whether they are friends or other members of the community.
The specific features that are taking Sosauce in this direction include the ability to search for a destination and review opinions as well as itineraries from others that have shared their experience on Sosauce's site, as well as the ability to embed your trip album on other sites and blogs for exported story-telling.
On the trip-planning front, there are new Trip Recording capabilities for planning a trip and then layering in media via photos, videos, journals, reviews, and points of interest. This can all be stuck onto a map for geo-location if you'd like, and all of these trip-planning features can be used for groups as well.
While the added trip-planning capabilities are fun, Sosauce's new Mesa 3D environment is more interesting in my opinion, and combines the majority of the features you'll find throughout the Sosauce site into a virtual world setting. The result isn't entirely different from a Second Life home or building that features images from one's travels boldly displayed on the virtual building's walls.
But, while the act of media-sharing is becoming rather prominent in the web-based virtual worlds that are popping up, Sosauce's specific implementation is rather interesting and highly customizable. You can even view a virtual globe for geo-locating media that's being tagged from places around the world.