Former CEO of Technorati David Sifry’s latest new venture is Offbeat Guides, it is a service for printing customized travel books. When you go to the site, it asks you 5 basic questions: Your name, your destination, your trip's dates, where you live, and where you're staying . With that, it goes out to the web and find related content and assemble them. You can tweak the content: If you don't know where you're staying you can be sure the hotels section is included; if you already have a place, you can remove it and save some paper.
There was this Nile Guide launched a few months ago. Nile Guide is a travel planning and what it does is they aggregate travel data from over 10 sources, including Citysearch, OpenTable, and Expedia, and add its own reports and reviews from local experts for 80 international destinations. It’s then made all of the information searchable from within a tool that takes into consideration both objective and subjective factors related to your preconceived preferences. The four main search types on Nile Guide: food, lodging, nightlife, and “see & do”.
When you search from within any one of them, you can filter the results in real-time using a variety of criteria. For example, you can choose to view only restaurants in a given city/region that are lively, quiet, off beat, romantic, family, or business entertainment etc. And when you're done planning your trip, simply download a PDF of your itinerary for FREE (with lots of ads).