Travellr Joins Web Elite at CeBIT Australia 2009’s Webciety

An initiative of Australian entrepreneurs Ian Cumming and Scott Woodhouse, and developed in Australia with the help of private equity funding and Australian Government innovation funding, Travellr, is a new service that connects travellers with like-minded locals and past visitors to popular destinations from around the world to deliver valuable, insightful and relevant travel answers.

Be it asking about where to find the best underground clubs in Bristol, the most secluded reef breaks in Banten or where to find the perfect espresso in Lake Como, the Travellr service is designed to help adventurous travellers get more out of their journeys than any guide book or travel agent ever could.

"We want Travellr to help people find the best local knowledge about anywhere in the world," the company’s co-founder and CEO, Mr Ian Cumming said.

The company will now take up the coveted 12^th and final spot at CeBIT Australia’s Webciety multimedia display of the power and potential of the Internet for today’s working and social worlds.

CeBIT Australia’s Webciety pavilion is designed to put the spotlight on today's Web-based society, featuring mobile Internet, wikis, communities, blogs, microblogs and other interactive Internet services which are making our lives increasingly digital, by showing the Internet at work using the tools of the Internet itself – essentially creating a "walk-through" Internet.

Companies exhibiting at Webciety will not have conventional booths, but rather "home bases" which will serve as digital staging zones for content using sound, images, video, light and color.

Travellr beat-out a strong and varied field of innovative and original applicants from the country’s Web start-ups to win a spot at Webciety. Its addition now completes the following line-up for the Webciety showcase:

• Hiive Systems: A builder of web-based software for staff in professional services companies. See www.hiivesystems.com for further information;

• Siteflex: The first Australian Web CMS to successfully integrate the Google Analytics Data Export API into both the Mailflex module and Siteflex itself. See www.siteflex.com.au for further details;

• ModSite: Developer of interactive moderation tools for more engaging websites. See www.modsite.com for more details;

• Saasu.com: An on-demand, online accounting portal. See www.saasu.com for more details;

• Buzz Numbers: A leading Australian social media intelligence platform enabling brands and businesses to monitor and report word-of-mouth conversations online. See www.buzznumbershq.com for more details;

• wotnews.com.au: A news search engine focusing on Australian business news. see http://wotnews.com.au/ for ore information;

• SportsPassion: Australia’s leading community sports-focused social networking service. See www.sportspassion.com.au for further details;

• Devnet Innovations: An advanced supplier of skills in the design and development of websites and in the creative application of Google maps and Search appliances. See www.devnet.com.au for more information;

• Design Bay: A graphic design marketplace that gives creative people opportunities and helps business get the best design possible. See www.designbay.com/ for more information;

• TJoos: A Sydney-based search engine for special deals and discounts from online merchants. See www.tjoos.com for more information;

• IPScape: A company that makes Contact Centres work by hosting voice & data in the Cloud.  Clients buy the service on a per second usage basis. Go to www.ipscape.com.au for further details; and

• Travellr: a question and answer based Web service that connects travellers with like-minded locals and past visitors to popular destinations from around the world. See http://travellr.com/beta for more information.

The Webciety program will run from 11am until 5pm each day of CeBIT Australia 2009 and cover such exciting topics as:

• What's this Twitter thing?

• Getting online with your mobile

• The future of e-commerce

• Building an online business in tough times

• Start your own online TV station 

• What is "Cloud Computing"? 

“Webciety at CeBIT Hannover was a simply amazing, an impressive display by all the major players in the web industry worldwide of just how fundamental the internet is to all areas of society today,” the managing director of CeBIT Australia’s organiser, Hannover Fairs Australia, Ms Jackie Taranto, said.

“From social blogging to cloud computing to e-marketing to digital content, the web’s potential has never been shown so vividly and starkly, and we aim to bring that same flavour to our event in Sydney.

“It’s also oriented to how companies can do business on the Web. With 'cloud computing', for example, data and applications are stored on the Internet rather than on the user's local system. This makes it possible to access data and use software from any number of devices via the Internet, including on-the-go.”

More information on Webciety at CeBIT Australia 2009 can be found at www.webciety.com.au

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CeBIT Australia is the largest business technology exhibition and conference event in the region. CeBIT Australia 2009 will be held from May 12-14 2009 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour. For more information on CeBIT Australia, please visit www.cebit.com.au.

CeBIT Australia is organised by Hannover Fairs Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the global trade group company Deutsche Messe AG. Hannover Fairs Australia also assists Australian companies in attending other international events organised by Deutsche Messe AG across the world. For information about other please visit www.hannoverfairs.com.au.