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Posted 2 years ago
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“Rough Guides has launched the World Lens app, which is its first application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The free tool showcases 200 images from the travel guide publisher’s picture library.” Very weak first offering.
Posted 2 years ago
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Um, me. “I think it requires a lot more than publishers can grasp at this point. It means re-architecting your company around this evolving mode of media consumption. It means bringing design thinking around every piece of content being created within a media company. It may also mean that the start of your media strategy going ahead could be based around portability and mobility, not just another device your content has to be ported to, the dominant media thinking currently.”
Posted 2 years ago
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It won’t work this time either. You need serious consumer design chops for this, which PL doesn’t have.
Posted 2 years ago
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Navteq and Lonely Planet have teamed up to give domestic travellers personalised location-based travel information on 25 recommended planned trip itineraries in Australia. It’s the first time that Lonely Planet trip information has been integrated into Navteq’s mapping technology as well as Navman’s MY Series range.
(Source: smarthouse.com.au)
Posted 2 years ago
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Wow. Online sucks for most travel startups.
Posted 2 years ago
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BBC Worldwide will make its BBC Good Food Healthy Recipes app, usually £1.79, free for iPhones and iPods during the week. Lonely Planet will make its London City Guide app free.
(Source: nma.co.uk)
Posted 2 years ago
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Zoom
“And sometimes you close your eyes
and see the place
where you used to live
When you were young…”
Posted 2 years ago
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“Muji to Go is another free app that’s designed to be a travel companion. It’ll help you identify different plugs, calculate exchange rates and time zone differences, find what you’re looking for, and also comes with just a standard calculator.” (via Lifehacker)
(Source: youtube.com)
Posted 2 years ago
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The Travel + Leisure iPad version is for the iPad and this month’s issue is free. Future editions will run you $3.99.
Posted 2 years ago
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The first joint publishing venture by Lonely Planet and its parent company, BBC Worldwide, The Traveller’s Guide to Planet Earth…
(Source: sfgate.com)
Posted 2 years ago
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Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel content provider, will create editorial guides across multiple channels—including print, digital, and mobile—to compliment the VCB’s promotional campaigns and expand its marketing reach. Lonely Planet will produce a customized printed guide for the destination, and a digital version will be posted online at www.fortmyers-sanibel.com. The partnership also includes development of a custom iPhone app, eight unique travel videos featuring Lonely Planet authors touring the region, a micro-site hosted by www.lonelyplanet.com, and advertising on both LonelyPlanet.com and the UK edition of Lonely Planet Magazine.
(Source: bradenton.com)
Posted 2 years ago
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Starwood-owned luxury hotel chain The Luxury Collection has launched its own series of travel guides…the Luxury Collection will publish six travel guides to cover Italy, Argentina, India, Spain, Greece and the United States in association with top-end publisher Assouline. The set of six will be available in rooms at The Luxury Collection properties, in Assouline boutiques in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, and online and in other stores for $140 (€102).
(Source: independent.co.uk)
Posted 2 years ago
via spiegelman
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I think Richard Blakeley just discovered the photography section of the iTunes app store, because his Tumblr has become a gallery of processed iPhone photography. Hipstamatic and AutoStitch are both represented, sometimes in tandem. Blakeley is one of the more talented people I know. He’s…
Posted 2 years ago
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Great article. This is why this industry is ripe for disruption.
