Esplorio, an online travel platform, has launched out of the University of Oxford.
Developed at the University’s Isis Software Incubator, part of Oxford’s commercialisation unit Isis Innovations, the platform allows users to collate memories of travels with a few clicks of a mouse.
Esplorio intergrates with Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social networks to pull information posted by the user from multiple sources during a holiday, and displays them on a single page that’s easy to use and navigate around.
Tim Fernando, chief executive, said: “I realised that I use my smartphone and camera throughout my trip, but the result was scattered all over the place – a few photos on Flickr, GPS tracks on Google Latitude, restaurant finds on Foursquare – sharing all those memories in one go was impossible. We’ve made it easy and fun. Your friends and family can even keep track of your progress via a shared link that is continuously updated as you update on the move.”
Esplorio plans to use data built from past trips to suggest flights, hotels and car rentals for future trips.
Tom Hockaday, managing director of Isis Innovation, added: “The software incubator has once again proven to attract the very best from the Oxford system. Tim is an employee of the University while Rami is alumnus. Their efforts have resulted in a niche product with great potential.”