This document provides an overview of presentations given at a London hack day event. It describes several travel-related applications and APIs that were demonstrated, including: - An application called "Worldreviewer" that provides travel inspiration and recommendations based on criteria like budget and interests. - The Tripbod API, which was created to make it easier to build applications using Tripbod travel data by adding location awareness and filtering capabilities. Demo applications using this API were shown. - An application called "Travoloon" that was demonstrated by EddMcArdle and Riaan van Schoor. - The "geo.me" service from Stuart Grant, which utilizes various location data sources and APIs to

1. LONDON

7. Running order: James Dunford Wood/Alastair James Paul Slugocki Riaan van Schoor/EddMcArdle Stuart Grant James Addison Kevin O’Sullivan

8. James Dunford Wood/Alastair James

9. Spin Inspiring travel

11. I don't want long haul.

13. I don't want too much of a questionnaire.

14. Don't overwhelm me, give me something visual and imaginative, inspiring ideas of travel

15. I want a clean, simple gateway to further information

25. Treasure hunt

26. Eye catching widget in 300x250 format to stimulate interaction

27. Can be franchised, co-branded to any provider

28. Can be set to any departure geo.

29. Multiple additional layers can be added without crowding the space

30. Layers can be switched on/off according to partner

32. Tripbod API & Ad. units Paul Slugocki TourCMS (Stand C25)

34. But it was a flat XML file :(

35. Writing search/filter code is cumbersome

36. Difficult to make location aware

39. Location aware

40. Accessible from any development environment with minimum code

41. Easy to filter / sort

43. Tripbod JSON API Imported XML file into MySQL Used GeoNames API to get 2-digit ISO Country codes (e.g. “GB”, “US”) Built API (PHP code) Wrote test site / documentation Open to public

45. List Tripbods by an area

46. List Tripbods by interest(s)

47. List Tripbods near a point (lat/long)

50. Enabled easier building of apps

51. Part 2: Ad units

53. EddMcArdle & Riaan van Schoor inside Try it at www.travoloon.com

56. Stuart Grant

57. Stuart Grant, geo.me

58. “Service is the new advertising” The most successful companies today are networks Google, Facebook and others provide 'elegant organisation‘ to users If you're small, the way to succeed is to be part of a big network do what you do best and link to the rest don't restrict the flow of information

59. There’s a ton of location data out there So use it… elegantly!

60. Visual Panoramio YouTube StreetView Informative Wikipedia Practical Directions Local Search Real-Time Live Traffic Webcams Weather Twitter There’s a ton of location data out there

61. Let's Take a Look... Hack Day API used: Frommers Event Data http://cms.geo.me/app/frommers-london http://cms.geo.me/app/frommers-london2 http://cms.geo.me/app/frommers1 http://cms.geo.me/app/frommers2

62. James Addison

64. Kevin O’Sullivan

65. Inspire Me Voice Activated Inspiration Travel Search Brought to you by SITA Lab

66. Your tour options are …

68. Integrate Voice with current SITA mobile products.

69. Challenges are recognizing heavily accented English, or processing multiple languages.

70. Extend Natural Language Processing to work on multiple input streams (Twitter, email, Facebook conversations)

71. Ancillary sales for current app – pay more for nicer voice!

72. Entry level is robust LCC customer service tannoy announcer

73. Pay more for a full service airline economy service steward

75. THANKS! kevin@tnooz.com @kevinlukemay