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Anyone who has ever tried to plan a trip as part of a large group can tell you that the process becomes tedious and difficult.  Sending emails back and forth constantly amongst a large group of friends is not the most convenient way of making plans.  That’s why cool person in technology Paul Watts has built Gatherball.  Gatherball is a set of collaborative tools on the web for groups to use when planning either a long vacation or a short getaway.  Watts’s website works at every step of a trip-planning project—from concept to booking.  Users who want to plan a trip or have an idea can use Watts’s service to send invites to specific friends.  Those who receive an invite then read a pitch on the Gatherball about a getaway or vacation idea from the original user.  These new users then agree to join, opt out or send messages to the trip creator to iron out details.  Any user who has had trouble with websites like Gatherball linking with their Facebook account will want to have access to online tech support in case they run into problems.

For Gatherball, Watts wants users to have a collaborative space where they can literally plan every detail of their trip.  That’s why he’s instituted features that let every member of a trip post ideas that their fellow vacationers can vote on directly on the Gatherball site.  Gatherball then calculates how much each agreed-upon idea will cost to keep track of expenses for the group.  Of course, Watts also wants users to be able to visualize the timeline of their trip’s activities, so Gatherball also offers a calendar and scheduling feature to ensure groups don’t run into time conflicts.  Gatherball uses cloud computing so any member of a trip can view the plans from whatever device they want.  Those who are unfamiliar with web apps and cloud computing can learn more by speaking to a cloud tech support company.

Watts’s career before founding Gatherball was mostly in the field of software development.  At the beginning of his career, he was a software design engineer at Microsoft.  Since then, he has held many other positions for companies of varying size and influence.  He was a senior technical manager at AOL, a software architect at Varia (a company that deals in Linux-based mobile software) and a senior software design engineer at HTC.  Watts founded Gatherball in early 2011.  He also runs a side project called OneBusAway, an Android app that looks up public transportation schedules.

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