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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
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
Super big congrats to both @matt-gray and @sharon for this acquisition, bravo! First of all, I'm very proud of you both for getting together and joining forces! When me and @maria-stoyanova put together the 2023 trends list for my keynote at Bansko Nom... show more
Great writeup, thanks Amanda and team! I'm always telling people that Dublin is a traveltech epicentre — there's so many smart minds here collaborating in the engine room of global travel distribution. Also sharing @linda-fox's writeup on PhocusWire:... show more
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