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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
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I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
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Of course! I'm ranked 100 at the moment, there's quite a bit of competition on the leaderboard these days 😂 https://travelmassive.com/places/6418882895
Thanks for putting this event on Ric and it's great to have a recording of this fascinating topic. Travel needs people obsessed with going to new places, even if it's not for everyone. It's only when you find out what you don't know that you learn some... show more
New slides added!
Google has launched "Ask Maps," a conversational AI feature within Google Maps that lets users ask complex, natural-language questions about places — like "plan a museum route" or "places to meet friends in the city after work with a table for four". A... show more
Hi Mike, this is absolutely awesome news to hear and it looks like the product has come a long way since you first shared it on Travel Massive a few years ago, bravo! Is this a pivot from the original group planning app to travel agency software, or an... show more
