Travel, or simply phone the world

Posted on | June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

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Something I’m thinking about now is how to set up a good travel section for this site. While working with development for a travel search engine where I’m now adding search for other travel related items to accompany the flight search already available, my interest for traveling has increased even further compared to before, also leading to insight in accommodation sites and finding out a little about what’s happening behind the scenes. Of course, I can’t share any of this knowledge here because of contracts and NDA’s, but can at least recommend what I come across and am impressed by. For example, I’d like to recommend having a look at Hip Hotels for some nice views before a trip, or if you feel like backpacking there’s usually some hostel with available beds through HostelBookers – or maybe you want to do some lifechanging travel, for example by volunteering in a third world country?

While on the road I usually bring the laptop, and there’s often available net either at or close to the hotel so I can use Skype which is of course connected as my home phone with SkypeIn and SkypeOut. This is actually what I also use at home, instead of getting a regular phone after moving to Denmark I simply decided to go with Skype, and can have a phone number in any country no matter where in the world I am at the moment. Now there’s even software to help if you want a temporary number – where Numbr sends any calls to the temporary number onward to your normal phone.

[Some of the links in this post are affiliate links where I earn a small percentage on sales - if you're curious about the products but don't want to support my blogging, the url's are www.Skype.com, www.HostelBookers.com and www.i-to-i.com]

Category: Internet, Life, Maps, Travel

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2 Responses to “Travel, or simply phone the world”

Raj
June 21st, 2007 @ 21:55 pm

Thanks for the tip on NUMBR!
I have used numbr(s) already, and think of it as the easiest way to sell online and protect my anonymity. Their call management features are a bonus!
I’ve also send a lot of feedback to the founders, and they are:
(a) thankful and genuinely keen on hearing from me/users
(b) amazingly agile in building in the right set of useful features!

All I had to do was send an email to: info@numbr.com …

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EH
June 27th, 2007 @ 18:38 pm

Hi Raj,

Thanks for the extra info on Numbr – I’ll certainly test it when the seeing a need for it.

/Emil