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Expedia - The purpose of the site is to allow people to book their holidays entirely through the site, effectively acting as a travel agent.
Expedia was launched by the Expedia group, and is an online travel agency offering hotel, flight, rental cars, activities and much more. At the time it was planned and launched, Expedia was very unique as it was the first site to offer the ability to book everything all in one place.
Expedia was the first online travel agency, this came only 5 years after the release of the internet.
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Trade Me
Trade Me was founded by a computer consultant, Sam Morgan in 1999. Since then the website has expanded largely offering consumers a platform to buy and sell online. Services such as Trade Me Property and Trade Me Insurance have also be developed. Trade Me continues to grow, having lots of interested buyers. Now currently owned by APAX Partners. -
Etsy
Etsy.com is founded by Rob Calin with the help of Chris Maguire and Haim Schoppic. Etsy is an online website platform for buy and sell goods. Uniqueness of this project is people can buy or sell vintage or home-made items. Moreover, people can list their items for sell only if it is twenty years old or more than that. People can buy custom or home-made photos, jewelleries and homewares. This e-commerce website is very useful to find something extra ordinary or unique hand-made goods. -
Flight Radar 24
Founded by two Swedish aviation enthusiasts, this website and mobile app tracks commercial aircraft flights on a map, whilst also providing details about the flight speed, aircraft's altitude and aircraft type. This website is used by family members to track families flights as well as people who have an interest in aviation. -
AliExpress - The purpose of the site was to provide people across the world access to Chinese products at extremely low prices
AliExpress is an online market place based in China, where stores can sell products for extremely low prices. The global consumer market place was launched by the Alibaba Group. AliExpress is a planned, unique service as nearly all of the merchants are based in China, where their products are sourced, therefore making the products they sell extremely cheap.
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Pinterest
Pinterest was created by Ben Silberman, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciara. Its purpose was to create a virtual scrapbook where ideas are shared and collected. Pinterest was a new and unique type of media platform where users can make and view photo boards. The project was executed through out 2009-2010 making it temporary. The outcome of the project was a high functioning search engine and media platform where users could store, promote and share visual concepts.
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Snapchat
Snapchat was founded by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, Reggie Brown. It is a social media mobile app that allows people to communicate via text and pictures, bringing friends and family closer together virtually. -
zoom cloud Meeting
ZOOM founded by Eric Yuan.Eric Yuan started the project in April 2011 with 40 engineers in China.First version of the ZOOM launched officially in 22 August 2012.ZOOM is used for live tele-conferencing, live webinar, distance education, social meetings and online chatting with higher audio-visual clarity.Moreover, people can share their screen during the live conversation and record whole conversion.Nearly around 1000 people can join ZOOM webinar at a time. -
Ultra-Fast Broadband New Zealand
Ultra-fast broadband is being carried out across New Zealand. Funded by the government to provide faster and increased stability in internet connection to uses across the country. Impacting largely on rural residents and businesses. The government having confidence in the project injecting more than $2 Billion into it's funding. The project is set to be finished by the end of 2022 -
NZ COVID Tracer App
NZ COVID tracer app was developed by NZ Ministry of Health with a purpose of tracing who people came in contact with during the COVID 19 period. The need to trace peoples contacts made the need and result of this project unique. The app was developed over a month making it temporary. The outcome was a QR code scanning app used to check into businesses or public places to ensure contacts can be traced. https://www.times.co.nz/news/nz-covid-tracer-app-released-to-support-contact-tracing/
