In response to the travel chaos caused by Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which has covered northwest Europe in a massive cloud of ash, Lonely Planet is offering 13 of its European iPhone city guides free to stranded travellers.

Greenspan demonstrated FaceCash today for VentureBeat, by using it to demonstrate how he could pay for a lunch he had at the Indochine Thai restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif. (See videos below for short demo).

Sorry for the lack of posts. I just got back from a nice trip to Cambridge, hoping for another trip to somewhere in 2 weeks. There’s a lot of cool things I want to write about but haven’t. Here’s an update of Startups, Websites, and apps!

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities.

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 because there’s just a lot. Here are the cool new travel 2.0 web and mobile apps.

I really want to try this app. Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. You take a picture of something with your phone and it’ll try to return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.

I just found out about this service. It’s a great way to get your voicemails while you’re on holiday, and not have to pay roaming to hear them. I remember when I was in Germany last week, I got several voicemails that I never bothered to listen to because I didn’t want to pay roaming to hear it. This is a very cool service I just started using today.

Over the weekend, Citysearch pushed out an update to itsiPhone app with a much smoother user interface, better local search, and maps are now the default view.

I used Rick Steves’ Guide when I backpacked Europe. It was awesome. I didn’t have to book anything or plan anything until I got there. I felt like I knew things only a local would know. And I could just skim cities before deciding if I wanted take a train over there. Great times.

I just found a site dedicated to listing all the iPhone travel apps out there! It’s a search engine for Travel Apps. I added it to my links on the right ;) very cool! I think the most valuable part of the site is the Top 8 Travel Apps Section. Here are the Top 8 Free and Paid Travel Apps in America.