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The Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards 2010

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

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…. keep your eyes here and on @lplabs on twitter for up to date information as it’s announced

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Lonely Planet’s Green Server Room

nigeldalton Lonely Planet author

ac-switches

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 rest of the building. Such a waste of energy.
The need to redesign the server room to allow us…

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  • 23 November 2009
  • 8:50 pm
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    Hack Day

GovHack, Lonely Planet Hack Day - roundup

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Dr Nicholas Gruen

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 finally this weekend there was MelHack run out of Lonely Planet.
I made it up to Canberra for GovHack and had an…

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  • 25 October 2009
  • 5:11 pm
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    Hack Day

LP Hack Day and GovHack Join forces

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

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 along all of it’s data, it’s knowledge, and will be running a series of workshops and classes on…

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Mob Refactor

Leon Messerschmidt Lonely Planet author

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 telling developers that two heads are better than one and it doesn’t only apply to open source.  Which brings us to the…

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  • 13 October 2009
  • 5:04 pm
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    Hack Day

LP Hack Day - Nov 7th & 8th

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

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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 for the very first Lonely Planet Hack Day.
Fresh on the heels of a massively successful mobile hack day in London (http://overtheair.org), and our own…

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Facebook Connect live

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

Activity stream

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 in our community without a separate log in (and then published their LP activity back out to Facebook).
Below are highlights of the changes introduced, and here’s…

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Recent improvements to lonelyplanet.com

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

ThornTree Username

Last week we successfully released another fortnight’s worth of changes to Lonelyplanet.com.
It is a fairly small batch we can announce this time as the team has been working for 4 weeks on functionality for the following fortnight’s release. So stay tuned…
Below are highlights of the changes we introduced this time:

We made it easier for users…

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Latest changes to lonelyplanet.com

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

Hi, my name is Katie and I am the Global Website Manager at Lonely Planet. You can read a bit more about me and what I do on my Lonely Planet Profile.
You may not know that we release improvements to our website every 2 weeks, and I would like to share these changes with you…

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BlogSherpa now open

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Well there you go, BlogSherpa has been live in beta for a little over two months. In that time we’ve been manually crunching blogs into the back-end.
The good news is that the arduous back-end system that allowed us to add blogs has been replaced by a new automated sign-up that runs from the new and…

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