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Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (2016-2025)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Hi Michel, Thanks for joining us and sharing Made To Hike with the Travel Massive community! How do people currently find guides for hiking? Is it word of mouth, or via other methods such as Facebook groups? I'm curious about your decision to only ... show more
Great video! The Chifrijo and Olla de Carne looked delicious! How strong is the coffee in Costa Rica? Does the brewing method make it taste different to espresso?
Here's a few gems of the earliest versions of some well known travel websites: Expedia (1996) https://web.archive.org/web/19961221145824/http://expedia.com/ Lonely Planet (1996) https://web.archive.org/web/19961109172129/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ ... show more
It sure is! A few years ago I used Wayback Machine to find the earliest version of https://hostels.com when it was created by @darren-overby at his hostel the Pacific Tradewinds Hostel in San Francisco. At the dawn of the web in the mid 1990s, Darren... show more
Usually we post a "share your travel predictions" thread at the end of the year to capture everyone's imaginations about the future of travel and where it's headed. I thought we'd try something different this year and ask — what are your travel intentio... show more
