MySpace to get popular Facebook travel app
Soon you can brag about your travels to your fellow MySpace friends as well as your height, weight and looks.
Where I've Been aka WIB, an application for sharing a map on places you've visited, lived in or want to visit, will now be available for MySpace users, the company plans to announce Friday.
The mapping application allows users to color-code the world by where they have visited or lived and where they would like to go. The U.S. is broken out by states while the rest of the world is broken out by country.
The Chicago-based company originally designed the application for use with Facebook.
As of September 5, Where I've Been ranked as the second most popular travel application on Facebook with 130,858 daily active users. That's about 5 percent of the total Facebook users. Cities I've Visited, which is also part of TripAdvisor's new travel-oriented social-network, was ranked No. 1 with about 7 percent of Facebook's daily active users.
In early August there were rumors that TripAdvisor planned to buy the rival Facebook application for $3 million. Where I've Been creator Craig Ulliott has denied there is any truth to a TripAdvisor acquistion.
MySpace users can get the widget to add to their MySpace page from WhereIveBeen.com.
Where I've Been application as it appears on Facebook.
(Credit: Where I've Been)
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Very cool site, and I am sure it will attract a lot of users. They are very close to finalizng deals with angels for additional funding.
Very similar to youtube, but the site has plenty of features that are unique to them, like the ecards, and virtual keyboard.
Small CA based startups always do well. I am sure Google or Youtube we soon be knocking on their doors.
- by May 11, 2009 9:50 AM PDT
- New Facebook travel app- First of its kind!
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(3 Comments)its for hotels that want to put thr info on Facebook.
Guest can see rooms, photos, rates - get quotes and book online
live example see
http://www.facebook.com/pages/arcresBookings/7683
7318113?v=box_3&viewas=592900427
or http://tr.im/facebookings
demo
-http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=74147&id=7
6837318113
or http://tr.im/FaceBookDemo
by AXSES - a feature of arcRes marketing suites
http://arcres.com/ecommerce-and-travel-marketing.cfm
http://arcres.com/facebook-travel-bookings.cfm