Over at Search Engine Land Michael Gray has a fantastic piece on the travel industry on Twitter.  This is the most complete list of service providers that I’ve seen for travel services, including airline travel and car hire.

Of course, don’t forget to check out vakobi’s twitter feed also.

Vodafone UK have launched an interesting mashup between Twitter and Google Maps, called #ukholmaps. It shows the holiday destination plans for UK-based twitter users.

Although the number of links is pretty small still, it’s interesting that there are relatively few planned holidays to Ireland from the UK. The UK, of course, would traditionally be one of the biggest markets for in-bound tourism to Ireland, but with the recent devaluation of Sterling against the euro, that has certainly been hit quite hard.

Looking for a new challenge?

Looking for a business opportunity, not just another job?

If so, then Vakobi might be the opportunity that you’ve been looking for.

What is Vakobi? Vakobi is start-up company with support from Enterprise Ireland based in Dublin but with global ambitions. We have developed an innovative approach to online holiday rentals, and we’re looking for a hot-shot online marketing guru to help us take Vakobi’s online presence to the next level. We’re looking for somebody to come on-board as a partner in the business.

Who are you? You’re an expert in all aspects of online marketing and promotion. You’re well versed in the latest trends in SEO, Google AdWords, website analytics, A/B testing, online brand awareness, viral marketing. You live and breath Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blogs. Ideally, you’ll have a background in tourism-related businesses. And most importantly, you’re looking for a significant challenge with a potentially huge reward at the end.

What’s on offer? We’re looking for a business partner, not an employee. We have invested significant funds already to develop Vakobi’s potential to where it is now, and we’re looking for you to invest your time and expertise to help us realise that potential. The successful candidate will be offered a significant equity stake and directorship in the business, and will have control of all aspects of marketing and promotion for Vakobi.

If this looks like the opportunity that you’ve been waiting for, please send us your CV at job@vakobi.com or visit us at www.vakobi.com/jobs.

Via Venture Hacks, I came across a great post on how to prepare a demo of a web app from the Wufoo guys.

Very interesting – must put it to work for my vakobi demo.

After an overly long Summer hiatus, vakobi is finally getting ready to launch for real.

Keep an eye on the website over the next few weeks, as things start to happen.

I’ve just entered ‘vakobi’ into google, and noticed that the first four hits are all relating to this vakobi. Given that we only have a landing page and a couple of blog entries up so far, this is good news!

Now on with the real business…