Facebook says it gavel its users the ability to add Facebook apps from Where I’ve Been, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Gogobot and Wipolo to their Facebook Timelines.
The idea is to post your travel dreams and experiences to your Timelines using these Facebook apps and to share them with your Facebook Friends.
In addition to travel, Facebook also gave users the ability to add Facebook apps for music, news, giving, food, shopping and fashion, fitness and entertainment to their Timelines, which is Facebook’s new user profile format.
The idea, of course, is to build traction for Facebook through apps from some high-profile brands and to let them, in turn, be more social and market themselves further on the social network.
Facebook users can add apps here.
For example, you can add the Where I’ve Been app to your Facebook Timeline and create a map pinpointing the cities you’ve visited in France or those on your bucket list. You can then post your Where I’ve Been map to your Facebook Timeline and have your friends comment or make suggestions.
Facebook notes in a blog post that you can do similar things with the TripAdvisor and Gogobot Facebook apps, and you can also record your condo rental or room rental activities using the Airbnb Facebook app.
With Wipolo’s Facebook app, you can organize your travel itineraries and share them with friends and associates.
Facebook apps aren’t as ubiquitous as iPhone apps, but maybe one day they will get there.
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Hi Denis,
Why Wipolo is not quoted in this list?
The social experience is much stronger than having the cities you have visited or the cities you want to visit. Wipolo platform brings together “Where, When, With Who, How”!
Facebook timeline aggregations needs “dated data” to be very powerful. Linking your wipolo account with your FB timeline enables people to have their traveler dashboard on their timeline (favorite destinations, traveled distance, number of days in travel) and share their travel stories (“is planning a trip to”, is going on a trip to”- “Is coming back from” in real time.
Looking forward to discuss it with you.
Matthieu
Matthieu: That omission is now rectified. Thanks for pointing it out.
so it’s restricted to these 5 apps and users can not decide which travel apps they want to add to the timeline themselves? or do other travel apps just not support the timeline yet?