GetYourGuide Supplier-Blog – News and Development

Wednesday night, we officially celebrated GetYourGuide’s launch at the Dozentenfoyer of ETH Zurich and announced the winners of this year’s Tour de Suisse competition. It was a very tight race, but in the end, Marina’s “Urchiges Appenzellerland” won the price. Congratulations and have fun traveling ;-)

The complete final ranking can be found on the Tour de Suisse page. At this point we would also like to thank our sponsors Facebook, Orange, Local.ch, MySwitzerland and Travel.ch for helping to set up this unique contest. We had a great time watching these innovative contributions being submitted and really enjoyed this final evening, when we got to see the people behind the entries.

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We are very proud to announce that we have launched “Tour de Suisse”, a contest seeking to find the best touristic tours and activities in Switzerland. You may find it here !

Tour de Suisse offers to everyone living in Switzerland to post innovative and original tours that allow visitors to experience the country from a different perspective than when traveling on the standard touristic paths. The contest runs until November 15th and everyone can vote on the tours through an application that we designed on Facebook.

Facebook is a terrific social community that allows users to integrate APIs on their platform and make use of the powerful social graph. In our case users may create tours and then invite their friends to vote for them using Facebook. Once a friend cast a vote, the friends’ frind will see this in his/her newsfeed and may also vote for the tour. Thus, within few cycles, a creative and convincing entry to the contest may rise to the top of the competition and win one of our amazing prizes. Continue reading

Currently standing in the middle of thousands of young persons at the lake of Zurich enjoying the friday evening with Johannes and his colleague. Today was my last day at GetYourGuide so Johannes and I had to go out to party a bit after a long day with little sleep.

Actually we’re experiencing web 2.0 globalization: a common event in Spain organized by young people found its way to Switzerland through facebook. Continue reading

Without a doubt, the highlight of this year’s famous developer conference f8 was the introduction of Facebook Connect, an API that allows third party websites to connect user accounts to Facebook and add social content to their site. One of the first well known partners to integrate Facebook Connect is Digg, a social community where users may rate news articles. In the German speaking environment Amiando, a platform where users may create events and outsource ticketing procedures. In both cases Facebook’s most important USP, the so called “social graph”, is exported to third party websites, allowing them to add rich user content to their sites. Facebook Connect goes even as far as allowing those third party websites to modify content within Facebook, such as postings at the marketplace. The obvious question then is, why should we bother as a third party website to play around with our user’s Facebook account?

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