THack returns to London – time for developers to show off their ideas and creativity in travel

May 15, 2012 By 15 Comments

After four fabulous events in 2011, Tnooz will be returning to London for its fifth THack developer competition on Thursday 28 June.

THack is Tnooz’s unique event which brings together travel industry APIs and the development community to brainstorm and create new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools.

Developers from across the travel, tourism and hospitality industry are welcome to attend, as well as engineers and technicians from local academic institutions in the region and other industry verticals.

The event is FREE for developers to attend and participate. Over the coming weeks Tnooz will coordinate the collection of APIs being made available to those taking part in the event.

THack London will follow a similar path to the first THack in February 2011 – developers will have TWO WEEKS to create something using the APIs we are making available, as well as using any other freely available API on the web (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, Wikipedia, et al).

A webinar will take place two weeks before the showcase to talk developers through what is available.

Those taking part will then have the opportunity to showcase their efforts in front of other developers, API providers and others in the fabulous screening room at the Soho Hotel in London on the afternoon of Thursday 28 June.

Developers unable to attend live can present via a pre-recorded video.

Watch this space for details of the prize fund!

Sponsors of THack London: 

APIs being made available to developers (many more to come):

For details of the how to take part, contact Tnooz editor Kevin May. Commercial opportunities are available by contacting our sales team.

Previous THack events:

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Kevin May About Kevin May

Kevin May is editor of Tnooz. He joined as a co-founder in August 2009 after spending nearly four years as editor of UK-based business publication Travolution.

Passionate about the business of travel and the internet, Kevin played a major role in establishing Travolution in print, online, events and with an annual awards programme, as well as becoming a regular speaker and moderator at industry events.

Prior to Travolution, Kevin was web editor at Media Week (UK) and also worked in regional newspapers for two years at the Essex Enquirer. He started his career in journalism at the Police Gazette at New Scotland Yard in London.

Comments

  1. Alex Bainbridge says:
    May 15, 2012 at 10:06 am

    Looking forward to being involved!

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  2. Brannon Winn says:
    May 16, 2012 at 10:37 am

    With our general release of our FastSearch product this week, Vayant is really looking forward to seeing what the development community comes up with that will use our sub-second search to inspire travelers!

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  3. Phil Donathy says:
    May 16, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    Travelport are delighted to be involved and we’re looking forward to seeing what gets developed. We’ll have technical experts on hand but if anyone wants to get a headstart, you can access the universal API SDK at http://developer.travelport.com. You can request test access online and we’ll get you a set of 30 day test credentials.. It normally only takes a few minutes.

    Feel free to get in touch with any questions.

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  4. pavel c says:
    May 18, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    sounds like the right place to be in june, looking forward to come!

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  5. Stephen Joyce says:
    May 22, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    We’re looking forward to participating as well. We’ve set up a page with instructions on how to use the API. It’s available here:

    http://www.rezgo.com/2012/05/make-something-cool-with-the-rezgo-api-at-thack-london

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  6. Nikolai Avrutov says:
    May 24, 2012 at 9:05 am

    A lot of excitement around here, as we brainstorm on what could be done with all these wonderful APIs! What a diverse portfolio of services!

    We are delighted to take part. An overview of our API is available here:
    http://www.carsolize.com/carsolize-booking-products/carsolize-integration-options/carsolize-xml-integration

    - While it is remarkably straight forward and quite well structured, our team will be available to support developers working with our API.

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  7. David Thomson says:
    May 26, 2012 at 2:46 am

    We’d like to thank Tnooz for allowing us to participate in THack again this year. If any one is interested in creating a social travel, shopping, or location service have a look at our API.

    We’ve created a significant amount of code libraries this time around and its all available for free on Github. If your interested in creating something similar to the current crop of social travel applications, a better Instagram, a Deem competitor, or the next Pinterest, its easy to grab some code and get started.

    Demo of our robust social travel application:
    http://trvl.io/demo

    Full source code for the social travel application:
    http://trvl.io/code

    To get started jump into our developers site here:
    http://trvl.io/devs

    API Docs:
    http://trvl.io/api

    API console:
    http://trvl.io/console

    Additionally we’ll be releasing a set of HTML 5 code rounding out the mobile side of things by start of the hackathon. Feel free to reach out to us on google groups: http://trvl.io/devsupport

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  8. John Watton says:
    May 31, 2012 at 8:08 am

    Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) is chuffed to be a sponsor of THack for the second year running.

    For all you hackers out there, you can find everything you need on our API here:

    http://developer.ean.com/

    Happy hacking!

    John

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  9. Barry Volinskey says:
    June 10, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    We would like to thank Tnooz for letting us participate in the THack London event!

    Evature enables developers to replace the regular (slow/boring/click-intensive) user interfaces with (fast/easy to use/cool) free-text or voice driven ones.

    We posted everything you need to know about how to use the EVA API, in our blog at: http://blog.evature.com

    Please contact us if you have any questions or comments and we will be very happy to help.

    Have a great time hacking away!

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  10. Robert Blessing says:
    June 14, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    We’ve also created a page with a documentation about our API: http://developer.localguiding.com

    We would like to hear your feedback. Feel free to contact us anytime.

    Reply
  11. Psycho says:
    June 29, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Сan you, please, fix logos linking to .jpgs – not sites?

    Reply

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