How I Wrote My First iPhone Travel App
Updated: 2010-05-31 21:40:17
For someone born B.C. (before computers), writing a mobile travel application seemed a daunting task. However, all of us in the travel writing industry know that mobile apps are the next paradigm shift in our business, so I knew I had to learn the technology and try to get a foot in the door of that growing market.
I partnered with an established company, Sutro Media, to publish a travel guide app on my adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.
As they always say -- whoever “they” are -- “Write what you know.” Sutro already had a relationship with Apple, a template, and several published and successful travel guides, so it made more sense than veering off on my own into cyber and c-fone space.
Esha's first submission to GoNOMAD was about her hike to Gertrude's Nose in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State with her husband, photographer Pinaki Chakraborty.
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Do you love to travel? Do you wish you could have the best travel resources all in one place, right at your finger tips, to ask all your burning travel questions? If so, the perfect place for you is the seventh annual New York Times Travel Show presented by American Express at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, February 26-28, 2010.
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