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Mapplications: a sneak peek into the future

VivekW Lonely Planet author

Maps – we love ‘em. As a traveller, I’m often tempted to visit new destinations armed only with a torn-out copy of a map with some scribbled notes. If I know which way’s north, everything else falls into place.
These days, technology can let us enjoy maps in ways we never dreamed of a few years…

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We won the Webby – and you did it!

VivekW Lonely Planet author

What a fantastic surprise. We woke up this morning to learn that we had won the Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Travel Website. 
This is exciting for the lonelyplanet.com team. The New York Times has called the Webby ‘the Internet’s highest honor’. And we’re particularly proud of taking home the People’s Voice Award, because that comes…

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Swine flu: the traveller's view

VivekW Lonely Planet author

UPDATE 5 (12 June 2009): The WHO has now declared swine flu a ‘pandemic’. What does this mean? My colleague Adam explains it all in this post.
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UPDATE 4 (29 May 2009): The initial panic over swine flu has now subsided. While the flu will continue spreading, its effects are limited. An Australian who contracted the…

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Lonely Planet guidebook maps are online

hoetmerk Lonely Planet author

Hi – I’m Ken, the guy in charge of digital maps at Lonely Planet.
If you’ve ever used Google maps to research a far-flung travel destination, you will have discovered, to your dismay, that they often look rather sparse. Perhaps they look like this. If you’re extremely unlucky, you will even have encountered the dreaded “no…

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Help us Webby it up!

VivekW Lonely Planet author

We’ve been nominated for a Webby! And we need your help.
What’s a Webby? Well, it’s kind of like the Oscars for the web. Webbies have been handed out for 13 years now. They started out when there was barely an Internet, and they’ve grown to be pretty prestigious – well, at least for web geeks…

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Things we're proud of

VivekW Lonely Planet author

We’ve been up to a lot in the last few months. And some folks have begun to take notice.
In the UK, the New Media Age gave us a great writeup (subscription required) – the best review they’ve ever had for a website! The Australian Gourmet Traveller has nominated us for a Best Travel Website award. We’ve won an…

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A sad day at Lonely Planet

VivekW Lonely Planet author

Hi everyone,
Today was one of the toughest days in recent memory for Lonely Planet, both in our digital department and around the organisation. This is the email from our acting CEO that summarised the events.
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A message from Lonely Planet acting CEO, Stephen Palmer, about recent changes within the company.
 
Today we had to announce some difficult decisions in…

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Update: what we're working on

VivekW Lonely Planet author

Hi everyone,
As anyone who works in Webland knows, the Internet is an ever-changing place. We’re beavering away relentlessly to offer new features on our site while making sure we listen to what you have to say.
In your responses to a previous post, you told us what was on your wish list for 2009. I’m happy…

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Thorn Tree and beyond: networking travellers

venessap Lonely Planet author

I’m the Community Manager for Lonely Planet’s diverse and ever-evolving online community (communitIES, really) – a vibrant, challenging, tendrillar creature! This is the first of many posts about what goes on in our community, designed to give you insights about the way we manage our traveller interactions and let you know about stuff in the works.

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Where you come from and what you’re looking at

AdamN Lonely Planet author

Hi,
I’m the Online Marketing Manager at Lonely Planet in Melbourne, Australia.
It’s my first day back in the office after a short break. I’m procrastinating doing any work requiring serious thinking by:

Planning my upcoming trip to Indonesia
Diving into to our web metrics to view 2008 in its entirety.

So, unlike Vivek who looked ahead to what 2009…

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