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Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor

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18 pointsbkrausz5 comments

Hey -- my team here at Trip built this!

I'm happy to answer questions. Or field resumes. Celebratory happy hour is at 4pm, so try to catch me before that.

Dude, just 'cause you were busy making fundamental changes to a huge travel site is no excuse to have skipped the Boston/Cambridge HN meetup. Though the 5 of us got along fine without you. I'd better see you at the next one. :-)

P.S. Congrats on the big launch.

Yeah, sorry about that. It's been a long couple of months.

Hey, thanks for offering to take questions.

How long have you guys been working on this, and how closely was Facebook involved during development of the product on your end?

A couple comments/questions about how it works. The "can advise friends" pins seem like a great idea, but I'm not sure how it works. Am I supposed to contact them outside of Tripadviser now that I've found they are offering advice, or is there some way to request more information from them within the site?

Also, unless I missed it I think there should be a more obvious way to add your own pins to the friends map on the home page. I got there by clicking through to a city, then clicking "add to my map", but there must be a more direct way.

Thanks in advance!

We've been working on this for about three months, and Facebook's team -- both engineering and especially product -- have been closely involved.

The IP initiatives are important to Facebook, and they appear to invest a lot of effort in each one as it reflects on their strategic view of the web.

Can Advise pins are in a funny state right now. We had a feature in place called TripFriends which allowed you to message friends directly to ask questions, but we need to reintegrate it into the rest of the IP experience.

There is a much, much better way to add pins. Add the Cities I've Visited app (also from my team): http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap/

You can slam 50 pins into place in no time using the typeahead.

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