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Lonely Planet’s Trippy 1 Dec 2010 | 07:18 pm
Lonely Planet’s Trippy is an experimental collaborative trip planning gadget and is now available on iGoogle, Android and other mobile devices. Lonely Planet’s Trippy was featured last year as part o...
Let’s Get Technical! 8 Apr 2010 | 04:12 pm
Software Development at Lonely Planet is generally all about building fast, reliable, scalable web applications for the masses which unfortunately means (limited) support for non-javascript browsers a...
Stopping BlogSherpa recruitment 7 Apr 2010 | 12:46 am
It’s been an incredible journey so far – we’ve launched the biggest and best travel blog network around, and more importantly – it’s worked. It’s now time for us to take a step back and examine what ...
The Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards 2010 12 Feb 2010 | 10:54 pm
They’re coming…. last year we had a blast and this year is going to be even better. Nominations will open within the next month before voting and a live event announcing the winners shortly after…. k...
Lonely Planet’s Green Server Room 12 Jan 2010 | 06:52 pm
by Julian Nikadie It has always irked me that we have air conditioners running in the Lonely Planet server room 24 hours a day, every day of the year – even when we’re running heaters to warm the res...
GovHack, Lonely Planet Hack Day – roundup 24 Nov 2009 | 04:50 pm
I’m just now resurfacing after a mammoth run of Hack Days here in Australia. First there was the pre-govhack briefing run by Deloitte Digital. Then there was the GovHack itself up in Canberra, and fin...
LP Hack Day and GovHack Join forces 26 Oct 2009 | 11:11 am
GovHack and Lonely Planet have got together to make the Hack Day on the 7th & 8th November even better. The Hack Day will run out of Lonely Planet’s HQ in Footscray, and GovHack will be bringing alon...
Mob Refactor 21 Oct 2009 | 05:15 pm
In the Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond popularized the words, otherwise known as Linus’ law that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. Linus’ law is actually just a nice way of tellin...
LP Hack Day – Nov 7th & 8th 14 Oct 2009 | 12:04 pm
The very first Lonely Planet Hack Day in Australia. Join the teams responsible for the development of lonelyplanet.com, the Lonely Planet mobile apps and the new Lonely Planet Open Social Platform fo...
Facebook Connect live 31 Aug 2009 | 05:45 pm
This fortnight’s release to Lonelyplanet.com is exciting for us because it marks the launch of our Facebook Connect initiative, which lets Facebook members sign up to lonelyplanet.com and participate ...
