Norwegian travel startup Stay.com made headlines last summer with the release of a unique travel perspective online. Stay.com affords its users unparalleled utility in building customized and personalized travel guides. Even more important than the making of these unique travel guides, Stay.com allows for researching, sharing across social networks and even printing detailed guides users can take with them anywhere. In addition, Version 3.0 puts even greater tools in the hands of travelers.

Version 3.0 is the next phase of highly detailed self-guided travel - mobile. In a nutshell, users can now download their guides to their mobile for complete offline viewing. Every guide comes with a complete offline map, so by using the GPS device on their mobile, users can find out where they are on the map - related to all the things they built into their guide - all without any roaming charges.

Furthermore, by using the GPS device on their mobile, users can also get directions to their hotel, attractions and restaurants in their guide from their location without adding a single dime to their phone bill.

On top of highly advanced mobile connectivity, the developers at Stay.com responded to user feedback to add even still more features and improvements. Here is the short list of Stay Version 3.0 and coming 3.1 features:

• Mobile application for iPhone in 3.0 (other models coming)
• “Add your own” place: Through integration with Google places, users are now capable of searching anything, find it on the map and add it to their guide. (released in 3.0)
• 55 major new cities worldwide added, with thousands of popular attractions (Coming in 3.1)
• Integration of 15,000 popular restaurants from Top Table and Open Table (Coming in 3.1)
• Featured guides: Users can download ready made guides directly to their phone (Coming in 3.1)
• Neighborhoods: Users can read about and filter places by neighborhood (Coming Version 3.2).

Advanced mobile travel functionality and value, many more places and attractions to explore, innovative interactivity, and coming user value no current travel portal currently possesses – Stay.com Version 3.0 is a significant improvement for travel. Time Magazine’s Top Travel site of 2010 just got a lot better.

The key focus for Stay.com going forward is to make the service even more social by allowing users to collaborate on their guides. During Q3 of this year, Stay will make it much simpler for users to put their guide on Facebook, and let friends pinpoint their suggested places on the map.