Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
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 (current)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
A few more links to keep updated: Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/automattic_wp_engine_wordpress_license/ Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit https://automatt... show more
Thanks to everyone who came along to last month's meetup, it was fantastic to reconnect and to meet some new people in the community! Here's some photos from Sydney (and Brissie, and Melbourne) from our Australian Stripe + Travel Massive tour. https://... show more
Sydney Travel Massive 5 days ago
Basically, WP Engine not contributing to WordPress, and some egos.
Over 400 Travel Massive members are hosted on WP Engine! 😬
The CEO of https://Wordpress.org, Matt Mullenweg, announced they have banned WP Engine (a commercial Wordpress host) from accessing its resources. If your blog is hosted on WP Engine (https://wpengine.com) then you're probably affected by this. In shor... show more