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Voysage
The blog behind a travel network being built by an australian team. We believe that online travel today is crappy and needs to be improved.

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"social networking sites are painful to use because they?re all commercial,
2008-04-16 16:13:00
?social networking sites are painful to use because they?re all commercial, thus they all want to make you register with them instead of elsewhere, thus they?re all incompatible with each other. you can?t friend a cyjournal user from your myface account, you can?t repost a linkster entry into your fligger site, and you can?t put your bing into your friend?s twat. [?] let?s do FoaF and RSS and OpenID and hCard and stuff. with a fair helping of GPG, please. leave the walled gardens to the kiddies who want to abandon each profile after a year and hop on to another site anyway.? - via nex
More About: Social , Social Networking , Commercial , Networking , Sites

"In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nine
2008-04-16 16:08:00
?In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn?t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button?s power. It?s a little like prayer.? - Up and Then Down (The New Yorker)
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Weekend updates
2008-04-10 22:50:00
Voysage will be down for quite some time this weekend, due to some updates. But after, we’ll be open to those who want to participate. We’ll also be in Sydney next week catching up with some friends and dropping into No Vacancy for a bit. More to come.
More About: Updates , Weekend

Updates! Updates!
2007-11-23 02:39:00
We’ve been tooooo busy.. Our next intake of users will be on the 29th. Sorry to those who really want to get in, but we’re having some necessary growing pains. There will also be scheduled maintenance on the 30th between 9:30pm and 3am (PT) — so most areas will be unavailable. If you’ve applied for an account, ...
More About: English , Updates

it?s an open social
2007-11-02 07:17:00
So we’ve been cramming in as much as we can over the past week. However we’re going to unofficially push back our next intake of users until monday! The only reason, of course, is the immediate release of Google’s Open Social . Theres more on that here. We’ll be spending the weekend drilling through the APIs ...
More About: English , Open Social

late indy pics
2007-11-02 07:01:00
Some pics from indy. Probably the only good thing about living on the Gold Coast.
More About: English , Indy , Late

so it?s official- alpha testing today
2007-09-21 03:23:00
So we’re “finally” set to begin alpha testing our platform today, if you’ve signed up, you’ll receive an email with the intructions. If not, post a comment here and we’ll add you to the waiting list. Only 500 accounts at this stage. Activating later today, when I get back from the airport. More updates coming soon.
More About: Testing , English , Today , Alpha , Official

so it?s official- alpha testing today
2007-09-21 03:23:00
So we’re “finally” set to begin alpha testing our platform today, if you’ve signed up, you’ll receive an email with the intructions. If not, apply here and we’ll add you to the waiting list. Only 500 accounts at this stage. Activating later today, when I get back from the airport. More updates coming soon.
More About: Testing , English , Today , Alpha , Official

db server is going down
2007-09-07 03:08:00
For optimizing! Back up in 3-4hrs, faster-than-ever.
More About: English , Server , Going , Goin , Serve

rolling out new posting/status options!
2007-09-07 01:31:00
Celebrating a new look. We’ve upgraded the UI for blog/journal/photo/status posting to speed up the process of updating your contact river in the dash- we know those page loads were killing everyone. Also you can now select which groups to signal, instead of default sending to everyone, even FOAFs. Brand spanking new menu updates will ...
More About: English , Options , Status , Rolling , Posti

feature: twitter support!
2007-08-10 15:37:00
Good news for those of you who are twitter.com users. We’ve just finished support for update posting to the twitter platform, horay! Now all your blog entries, new photos or location status changes can be sent to your friends twitter streams. And soon you’ll have the option to syndicate your twitter stream into your Voysage dash. ...
More About: English , Feature , Support , Twitter

we?re still on the radar
2007-08-07 19:46:00
Apologies for the blackout. We’ve been on a short break.. And now we’re back! First of all, we have some major news: we’re not going to remain english focused. And so, we’ve also started working on several variations of Voysage. Specifically in Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Russian. For ...
More About: Radar

prometeus - the media revolution
2007-06-16 06:54:00
Man is God. He is everywhere, he is anybody, he knows everything. This is the Prometeus new world.
More About: Media , The Media , Revolution

it?s been a long journey
2007-06-15 12:58:00
It’s taken us a couple months to get to where we are now. Almost ready to go. We are still probably 85% done, with so much more we want to do. We’ve had to say no to alot of features. Which hurts, but in the end simplicity prevails. We NEVER will become another travelocity/orbitz affiliate. Since ...
More About: Journey , Long , Been

geobeats
2007-06-12 13:18:00
In case anyone hasn’t stumbled across geobeats.com, the innovative video travel guide site, here is their excellent flash player (removed due to code screwup :o). Dive in and start exploring destinations like you’ve never done before!
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geobeats
2007-06-12 13:18:00
In case anyone hasn’t stumbled across geobeats.com, the innovative video travel guide site, here is their excellent flash player. Dive in and start exploring destinations like you’ve never done before!

the t-list
2007-06-12 12:28:00
The T-List is a list of interesting travel/tourism related blogs started by radaron. We’re currently subscribed to about 70% of the following, which makes for some excellent daily reading. Just happy passing this on to anyone who hasn’t consumed this great resource.

open registrations, soon!
2007-06-06 23:51:00
We’ll be opening registrations on Voysage.com starting soon, hopefully before the end of June. We are currently on target to resolve several server issues which have been plaguing us since the (24/05). More to follow.
More About: Open , Registration , Regis , Stration