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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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Short-sighted visionary?

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

What was billed as a heavy-weight bout ala Rocky, turned out to be more like Notting Hill than anything else. The conversation between Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D5 conference was still however, an interesting insight into the minds of two of the most durable technopreneurs in the business. Steve Jobs’ wise-cracks made him look like a mean, high-school bully and Bill Gates seemed like Bambi lost in One Infinite Loop.

What struck me the most was however the difference in the way Gates and Jobs view technology. Bill Gates, undoubtedly a shrewd businessman and a great tech visionary, in my mind appeared to have a disconnect with the world around him whereas Steve Jobs seemed more rooted to reality. Jobs seems to talk about how technology can be used to make his life better, (even the iPod and the iPhone were supposedly born out of Jobs’ frustration with the status quo) whereas Bill Gates always thinks about how it would make a customer’s life better. My point is that while it is absolutely essential that companies listen to customers, if your product isn’t useful or exciting to you (and not just from a ooh-I’m-working-on-cool-stuff perspective), you lose a lot of the motivation to improve it.

We at Bezurk strive to make travel search not just better for the world at large, but for ourselves. And we’re sure that as we refine our core products over the coming months, the pride that we take in developing them will shine through!

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