Over the past two days, Techcrunch wrote a lot about what I cover, travel tools for web and mobile. I decided it’s better to link to their detailed reviews directly. Here are the cool new travel 2.0 web and mobile apps.

NileGuide Unveils New Location-Based iPhone App For Travel Recommendations On The Go
NileGuide, one-stop travel planning site, has launched an new iPhone app, called What’s Next, geared towards travel recommendations. The startup, which lets you create customized trip itineraries is integrating location-based technology with What’s Next to offer personalized, and interactive content and recommendations in the app, which costs $2.99 on the App Store.

Stealth travel search engine Everbread de-cloaks to tackle core airline problem
Everbread, a new travel search startup, is de-cloaking out of stealth today. The startup has put into alpha testing a new search platform that claims to be substantially faster than traditional travel search engines. It’s also doing something unusual – integrating a number of low cost airline carriers. Normally customers must go to these individually as the big travel search engines are usually locked out.

Yahoo Search Hits The App Store; Takes On Yelp With Sketch-A-Search
Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search is a little more of a unique offering. To conduct a search, you use your finger to draw a circle or boundary on your phone’s map to look up businesses within that location. The app defaults to the users’ current location, and also allows people to search for a specific city, or area. The app initially will only deliver results for restaurants in given areas but will launch other local categories in the near future. Within the results, you can refine restaurants by cuisine, ambiance, and star rating. You can click on restaurants to read reviews, browse photos, get directions, or make a phone call from within the app. It’s similar in some ways to the functionality of Yelp or CitySearch.

Google Maps Tests Integrated Hotel Price Listings
If you’ve ever tried using the web to book a vacation, there’s a good chance you found yourself juggling a half-dozen tabs at once: a couple for hotel review sites, a booking engine or two, and, finally, a Google Map to figure out where exactly all these places are actually located. Today, Google has announced that it’s experimenting with making this a bit easier, by including hotel prices alongside their Google Maps listings.