My friend Patrick Hertzog just sent me this interesting post. This is about WorldMate launching an iPhone application for travellers. The application (also available in all other popular mobile platforms) will basically accompany and assist you during the whole journey experience: checking the travel plan, receiving flight alerts, lookup for flight status, get maps and directions, search for hotels, look for weather forecasts, and anything else you think may be useful to have at hand when travelling. The application is well designed and looks robust. This is cool because travel has been one of the most promising areas on the Internet, and especially on the mobile Internet.
Back in 1999, a group of crazy scientists and entrepreneurs (Prof. Boi Faltings, Dr. Pearl Pu, Dr. Christian Frei, Andreas Güenthard and myself) were creating very similar software for business travellers on mobile platforms. We founded Iconomic Systems and were developing a software to plan business trips intelligently and then offering travel support on the road with a PDA. I guess we were ahead of the market… this was 10 years ago. Anyway, we had tons of fun, we learnt a lot, and on top of that we made money! Here you have a taste of what we built a decade ago!
June 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM |
It reminds me a lot of fun we had developing those applications!!