We hope that no one has missed that the Facebook Platform team is heading towards Stockholm, hosting their first mobile hack here ever.
On March 8, doors open for an all-in hack of building mobile games and apps. Both native and mobile web (HTML5) app development will be covered, as will technical deep-dives and a Q&A. At the end of the day, awards will be given to the best mobile social apps.
Sounds like fun? - Get more info and register here.
Hope to see you there!
Great initiative from Tictail! Get the stickers from the coolest Swedish startups!
Oh, and we really like the about page :)
One of our awesome developers.
A friend of Tripbirds is a friend of mine! (With inspiration from Mina vänner by Anna Oskarsson)
Today we (Tripbirds & Jonny Strömberg) are releasing Helsinki on Startuplocation. Hooray!
We have gotten help from local startup heros and other enthusiastic’s - Thank you!
We know though that we are missing some startups on the map, but with your help we hope it to be done in no time :)
Not on the map? - Go to Startuplocation and fill out a short form.
Have any questions or want to edit some information about your startup? Send us a mail to: bonjour at tripbirds dot com and we will get it right asap.
A lot of startups are working on combining travel and social media. We dove into the social travel ocean and found no less than 32 startups.
Most of them are doing some really exciting stuff. We really like the concept of “social flying” and would therefor like to push Planely and Uppward.
Planely is a Copenhagen based startup, founded by Nick Martin, Paul Kirkaas and Gorm Casper. The service is simple; you enter your flight and then Planely will show you what other users will be at the same departure airport/same flight and/or the same arriving airport as you. If you like, you can connect beforehand.
You can also add your Facebook or LinkedIn account to find your contacts.
Uppward is a startup co-founded by Nathan T. Wright, James Eliason, Nate Becker and Ben Sinclair. It’s an iPhone app that allows you to discover who else is flying with you. You can aslo earn miles and rewards, regardless of wich airline you choose.
What services like these do, is ensuring that you don’t miss out on likeminded people or business contacts when anyways e.g. waiting in the same airport lounge. No lotto this time. Pretty cool.
Of course, all of this depends on enough people signing up for these services and most importantly if the person you find interesting actually is up for having that cup of coffee with you…
Today it was exactly one year ago that Jonatan, Robert & Ted met for the first time at Kaffeverket in Stockholm and dreamed up Tripbirds.
Two months ago we blogged about the number of monthly users for different social travel apps that are connected to Facebook. Here’s a new roundup, with a few more apps included! This is what has happened in just the last two months, for some apps that we at Tripbirds find interesting:
“Monthly active users” on Facebook means that there was some type of activity between the app and Facebook. As some readers pointed out last time, there are different types of app activity. It might be a bit misleading comparing numbers for different apps, but what you can really see is growth over time.
Some key take-aways:
- No big changes in in the social travel space. Tripadvisor is still king.
- Instagram really zipped past Foursquare in the last two months. Foursquare is still growing, but not at all like Instagram. Wow!
- Path, with the launch of the new version, passed half a million. Wow!
- Foodspotting is standing still at 20.000. The somewhat similiar rating-app Oink, which launched in november, is now at the same number.
But the most wow-moments had to do with the startups with Swedish founders:
- Spotify added more than five million monthly users. Wow!
- Soundcloud almost doubled in two months. Wow!
- Newcomer Wrapp is growing like crazy, increasing 8-fold in two months. Wow!
Is there some social app growth you think we missed?
