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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)
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AEast Coast, Tasmania
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AVladivostok
What was your first travel job?
Q&AI wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&AThe most remote places in the world
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&ATravel with purpose
Comments 1039
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Hi Kenny, thanks for sharing you project. Me and @kckiwigirl are heading to Shanghai in October for a day (tranist) so I purchased a guide to get some details. It's been more than 10 years since I was in Shanghai so I'm looking forward to visiting again.
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I get your point but only 2.7 billion people live in the centre of the map, so why substantially deteriorate the accuracy of the map for 2.4 billion people in the East. It's not an "equal map" as claimed.
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About 2.4 billion people (30% of the world's population) live in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania whose countries are squashed by this new UN map.
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What about Australia, New Zealand and Japan which are now bent out of shape and squeezed at the edge?
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I would be interested in the price differential between the duty-free price and what the product is available for in the same city at a regular store. e.g. I'm unlikely to make a purchasing decision based on if the product is cheaper in a city on the o... show more