Comments on: Facebook Consumerism? http://www.tourismtide.com/2007/10/facebook-consumerism.html Connecting The Travel Industry with the latest in Technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Peter Daams http://www.tourismtide.com/2007/10/facebook-consumerism.html/comment-page-1#comment-11 Peter Daams Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:03:00 +0000 http://www.tourismtide.com/2007/10/29/facebook-consumerism.html#comment-11 Hi Philip, the way I see it, the primary problem facing our app on Facebook is that we were simply too late. By the time we had put it together there were already a few others on there that had gained a lot of popularity. The trick with Facebook really was to get in there before anyone else. As a result, simple apps that took a day to build gained great popularity. Now that the platform is flooded with apps, it is much harder to gain users.<br/><br/>That said, we do still generate over a hundred new members a day from Facebook, so even being a relatively minor app is not so bad. :)<br/><br/>With OpenSocial about to launch, we'll have to try and get our app together faster and see if that works better. If that doesn't work, maybe you're right that we need to go for the boring "I've coloured in all the countries I've been to" option instead. :) <br/><br/>Peter<br/>Travellerspoint Hi Philip, the way I see it, the primary problem facing our app on Facebook is that we were simply too late. By the time we had put it together there were already a few others on there that had gained a lot of popularity. The trick with Facebook really was to get in there before anyone else. As a result, simple apps that took a day to build gained great popularity. Now that the platform is flooded with apps, it is much harder to gain users.

That said, we do still generate over a hundred new members a day from Facebook, so even being a relatively minor app is not so bad. :)

With OpenSocial about to launch, we’ll have to try and get our app together faster and see if that works better. If that doesn’t work, maybe you’re right that we need to go for the boring “I’ve coloured in all the countries I’ve been to” option instead. :)

Peter
Travellerspoint

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