mcdowall

I similarly spent a few years working in this space (TfL, digitising their data and website etc). It always struck me just how nuts the weekly meetings between different station operators and TOCS within the GLA would be, essentially a shouting match to determine who would have to keep their station open that weekend. Resultant timetable changes on the fly were always fun content to keep updated.

Timetabling (at that point) remained very much a manual process, I think they had to bring a poor chap out of retirement who wrote them by hand.

The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’).

That’s much more accessible to developing / low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and expensive storage requirements of the other two.

I've been contracting for 8 years now. I'd recommend CWjobs / ContractRecruit and PurelyIT - just search and refine based on location / skills / required rate.

Jaron Lainer - Who Owns the Future is a great read on the topic of owning and monetising ones data.

The book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Harari talks exactly to this point. A really excellent read.

I’ve worked on this in London recently, presenting my working concept (and months of data in tableau by location behind it) at a few events. The industry is a few years off it, particularly the physical tech, which would require digital screens to be hooked up to an ad server of sorts (that doesn’t really exist programmatically either) and then serving custom ad formats (non IAB format) in real-time (taking in variable factors that could effect the demographic and/or volume of eyeballs). Measurement of the eyeballs and said demographic is the gap, though that’s more than currently exists in the Out of home market right now(nothing!).

It has legs, you just need serious commitment from an owner of inventory (physical boards), which are controlled by 3 or 4 organisations.

I'd classify it into three groups for the UK...

Perm - Mid level benefits + Pay (maybe options in a startup)

Contractor - Individual with their own Ltd company, pays less tax and much higher take home pay but without any benefits.

Consultant - On-site via a supplier on a framework of some kind, however, often a permanent employee of the supplier with the supplier cashing in the margin.

At least 50% of the tech workforce in companies I work with or where peers are at in London are made up of contractors, especially in Banking.

Totally agree with you here. The contracting market in the UK (particularly London) is much more lucrative than relative permanent roles, even when their benefits are taken into account. It's actually more lucrative on tax here, though the Gov't are trying their best to change that.

It's also my experience that you get what you pay for, contractors in the whole tend to have a much wider breadth of knowledge from various sectors and hit the ground running whereas I don't tend to see the same appetite from Permanent employees (in most cases!).

I've been using Momondo recently, which has all of these tools and a much better UX. This just feels like a re skin of the ITA site and a bit of a poor effort at that.

I was in Belize a few years ago and think I had Lobster for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, so cheap!

It's on the way. The beta was about for 9mths or so

From the comments I'm trying to work out who you are, struggling tho!