Posted in Feedback, Travelosophy on Sep 29th, 2008
The funny thing is that for a time I was actually employed as a professional namer. And to answer your questions: 1) yes, that’s a real job 2) companies actually pay a lot of money for a good name. I’ve named cars, computer chips, sandwiches, lingerie, and even a professional baseball team. But nothing was more frustrating than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Where I'd Rather Be on Sep 26th, 2008
Author Jonathan Swift once noted, “He was a bold man that did first eat an oyster”. Since 1957, the Irish hometown of the world-famous Ostrea Edulis oyster has celebrated its delicious crop with the four-day Galway International Oyster Festival. The mainstay is Ireland’s best-known beer, Guinness, paired with the plump, salty European flat oyster grown [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Sep 25th, 2008
The Face-Off is Joobili’s newest feature. It will appear on the homepage and it allows users to vote between two “competing” travel experiences happening in the upcoming week. It’s pretty simple, just click on the event you want to vote for and the percentage of total votes magically (read ajax refresh) appears. So get [...]
Posted in Where I'd Rather Be on Sep 19th, 2008
Fire up the Oom-pah band, bang the wooden tables with your new best friends and swing your stein to the tune of German drinking songs. Oktoberfest starts tomorrow, and over the next two weeks there will be seven million foreigners and locals eating sausage and and drinking beer for breakfast. Even if you’re not a beer guy (like [...]
Posted in Joobili Buzz, Site Features on Sep 17th, 2008
We are still very much in the Alpha stage of development, but I’ve had fun playing with a demo version of the site this last week. It’s full of bugs and annoying error messages, but I’ve got to admit it’s pretty cool seeing this thing move from my head to my screen. This week we are implementing [...]
Posted in Travelosophy on Sep 15th, 2008
A little over a year ago I was talking with my friend (and later business partner) Tamas Gabor about recent travels. I had just returned from St. Moritz, Switzerland feeling it was over-priced and over-touristy. Tamas had quite the opposite opinion. It turned out he visited St. Moritz in January on the weekend when Cartier hosts a Polo World Cup match on the frozen [...]
