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Wego.com announces open-sourcing of hotels meta-search product

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Update: We’ve received some enquiries (both out of shock and curiosity) and we’d like to urge our readers to take a closer look at the date of the post ;) In other words, Happy April Fools Day.

It’s been almost a year since we made the big jump onto Ruby On Rails for our hotels meta-search product on wego.com. To celebrate its one-year anniversary (well, almost one-year anniversary) we are glad to announce that the hotels meta-search product is available as open-source on GitHub!

We are still sorting out a few issues with our development team regarding documentation and such, but we are confident that this move will strengthen our core product offering by utilizing the power of the community. Please fork our GitHub repository at http://www.github.com/wego/hotels and we will gladly accept patches. We are opening a Trac account for bug reports and mailing list for announcements – this will happen very soon.

In the meanwhile, Happy Hacking!

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Colour Your Wego Affiliate Search Box – Wego Affiliate Update

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Ever wanted to change the colour scheme of the search boxes of Wego’s travel search engine? Well if you are one who asked this questions, help is on the way. 

Today Wego affiliate program will be launching a new feature which allows affiliates to modify our search boxes to fit into their site’s theme.

What can be change or customize

1. Border
2. Header background
3. Inactive tab background and font color
4. Active tab background and color

Below are some screenshots of how the implementation will look like. 

 

Here’s how to implement the new colour change feature for your search box.

 

Basically add the following script block within the <HEAD></HEAD> elements of the same page where you are embedding the Wego travel searches and you would be good to go.

 

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var wegobox_customization =
 { ’wegobox_border’                  : ‘#063′,
   ‘wegobox_bkg_header’          : ‘#06C’,
   ‘wegobox_tab_bkg_active’      : ‘#FFC’,
   ‘wegobox_tab_fcolor_active’   : ‘#333′,
   ‘wegobox_tab_bkg_inactive’    : ‘#DDD’,
   ‘wegobox_tab_fcolor_inactive’ : ‘#FFF’
}
</script>

PS: Affiliates who need additional information, please feel free to contact me via the affiliate help channel or simply review the FAQ section in the affiliate dashboard.

 

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Wego & news.com.au look to inspire Australian’s to travel again

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Today Wego & News.com.au officially announced the launch of ‘Holiday Deals’, powered by Wego at http://holidaydeals.news.com.au.

It’s a great location for the Wego deals as it now allows the news.com.au users to not only access their great travel editorial, photos, news stories & holiday ideas for travel inspiration, but they can also now find out where some of the best travel deals are on the web thanks to the Wego Deals, offering inspiration from a price or value perspective.

Just like on Wego, on ‘Holiday Deals’, travellers can choose to view the latest Flight Deals, Hotels Deals and Package Deals as well as the Top Deals from all three areas.

So although travel confidence has taken a bit of a beating over the past couple of months, we are certainly starting to see some great deals as travel operators try to stimulate the market again. In fact, in Australia domestic fares are some of the lowest seen in over a decade or more.

While for international destinations that have really been struggling because of the big bad ugly GFC, we are starting to see prices drop significantly to some of those regions that may have been difficult to consider due to currency fluctuations. However with prices like these, there are really some great savings around at the moment.

All of which you can find either on Wego or via the new Holiday Deals page with news.com.au!

2009 is the International year of Astronomy. So while you are gazing up at the stars tonight and wondering if we will ever travel into space or to another galaxy (NASA & Mr Branson etc excluded), have a think about all the mysteries and wonder of all the places you are yet to see on that little round thing below your feet we call Earth.

Perhaps the deals you can find on Wego & Holiday Deals on news.com.au will help inspire you to spark up that little explorer’s fire within us all and venture out to experience the wonderful world of travel again.

Our super squirrels will help you find the best deals around!

 

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Job opening – Finance Manager

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Ready for the trip of a lifetime? One of Asia’s hottest internet companies is recruiting a hands-on finance manager interested in moving to a high-growth environment.

What’s Wego?

Wego is Asia-Pacific’s leading travel search engine. Think of Wego as a price comparison website that helps you find the perfect flight, hotel, or travel package for your specific needs. Instead of having to trawl through many different travel sites, Wego provides the information you need to find your perfect travel purchase, be it airline tickets to Phuket, a hotel room for 2 in Bangkok, or activities you can experience while in Tokyo — all on a single site: Wego.com.
We are a rapidly growing small company in a very exciting space. News Corp. is a significant minority investor and key strategic partner. We have commercial partnerships with major internet properties all across Asia.

What’s the Job?

Financial reporting and ensuring compliance to accounting policies. Supporting planning and budgeting with financial assessments and information. Developing scalable financial systems, reporting and budgeting procedures. Providing sound commercial and business advice. Management and development of the finance team.

What’s Required?

The appropriate candidate will be: A technically strong commercial accountant with financial accounting, modelling, forecasting, supervisory and budgetary skills; Tertiary qualified in business to Chartered standard or CPA (North America); Motivated for the challenge of succeeding within a rapidly growing company; Have digital media or traditional media experience; An excellent communicator and team-builder (preferred); Fluent in English (required). (Knowledge of other Asian languages is helpful).

What’s on Offer?

A competitive base salary (commensurate with experience) + an equity plan with potential to really make a difference. All set in a casual work environment.

What’s next?

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to finance [at] wego.com.

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