When you get Barney Harford going about his pet project, turning around Orbitz Worldwide, he talks so fast that he seems to forget that sentences have periods on the end for a reason.
Orbitz CEO plans to revolutionize hotel sort — holy Hadoop
November 18, 2011 By 9 Comments
CarTrawler releases source code for iPhone app
October 13, 2011 By 10 Comments
CarTrawler is enabling travel companies to customise its iPhone application by providing them with the source code via its website.
Open AXIS Group and Google push open source but wait
March 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Does an open source standard or software become proprietary if developers have to wait to download them while they are available to others much earlier?
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Earth.org enters the great Black Hole of the web
February 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Hopes of continuing the open source travel content project Earth.org appear to have come to an end with the site disappearing into the digital ether this week.
OpenTravel launches discussion forum, kicking off debate about its model
December 23, 2009 By 11 Comments
Just how open is the OpenTravel Alliance? And, how much free stuff can a not-for-profit standards’ body give away while remaining independent and, well, open for business?
These questions were batted around a bit on Twitter — and likely elsewhere — as OpenTravel earlier this week introduced the OpenTravel Forum.
The forum, built on the phpBB platform, is designed as a resource for people implementing OpenTravel schema in the hospitality, transport, travel services, and tours and activities realms, and is moderated during work hours by Bonnie Lowell, the OpenTravel specifications manager and a former Starwood exec.
Travel industry ‘trench warfare’ turns Farelogix open source experiment into a dud
December 10, 2009 By 18 Comments
In March, with much hope, Farelogix, the travel tech company and distributor, began an open source experiment and freely made available to anyone the source code for its travel management point-of-sale tool, Hawkeye.
The idea of Project Hawkeye was to take a hammer to parochialism in the travel industry, with developers downloading the code, building apps and sharing the results so the industry would benefit and embrace a culture of innovation.
Of course, Farelogix would position itself as a neutral arbiter and thereby reap some benefits and goodwill, too.
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