Offbeat Startup: Custom travel books from Dave Sifry

This could be a game changer for book publishing. A new company called Offbeat Guides produces personalized travel books based on your itinerary and travel details. It was founded by Dave Sifry, a serial entrepreneur (and friend) from San Francisco who previously led Technorati and LinuxCare. Dave has participated in our We Media conferences for […]

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Checkpoint-friendly? Yeah, right. The joy of flying.

The Transportation Security Administration, those dashing functionaries at airport security, starts implementing “checkpoint-friendly” bag policies this week that will allow notebook computers through those scary x-ray machines without being removed from their case. But to qualify as “checkpoint-friendly,” a bag must have a designated notebook-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine […]

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