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Send real drinks for just $1

September 22, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand 1 Comment

BarTab, a new Facebook application that gives users the ability to send real drinks to friends for $1, announced their official and exclusive launch in Arizona. The BarTab service turns Facebook virtual drink icons into real drinks, redeemable by cell phone (electronic coupon) at participating bars in Arizona. To date, more than 100 bars have agreed to participate in the program with many more lined up statewide. BarTab will host a kick-off party this Thursday at 8:00 pm at Scottsdale’s Salty Senorita, where guests will be able to demo the new application live.

Developed by Nick Stewart and Matt Smith at the University of Arizona’s McGuire Entrepreneurship program, the application provides obvious user benefits through the experience and enjoyment associated with the social interaction of giving and receiving drinks. In addition, BarTab acts as a customizable marketing service for participating bars and restaurants.

The launch of the new application follows a recent endorsement from Facebook where BarTab was selected from 600 competing companies to receive a $25,000 grant.

This is how it works:

The service allows users to turn a digital drink icon into a real drink redeemable by cell phone. Upon visiting the designated establishment, the BarTab user simply presents a text message-based mobile drink coupon (received upon purchase/gift) in exchange for a drink.

For the partnered bar, BarTab’s pay per customer model is a unique component of the service, and provides a means of risk-free advertising. Partnering bars only incur costs when customers are successfully attracted to the bar. Participating bars and restaurants give away a drink to attract a customer. The bars have control over the number of drinks they give away, the type of drinks given away and even the time periods in which the drinks can be redeemed.

The Arizona-launch represents the first step in the launch process prior to taking the application nationally and internationally. BarTab is currently in its second round of funding. Beginning today, Facebook users will have the ability to login and vote for their favorite application out of 25 apps finalists in the fbFund Round 2. Depending upon the number of votes received, the company may be eligible for further Facebook awards of up to $225,000 that will allow the company to begin migration from a product serving the local community to a broader national and eventually international network.

Originally posted on November 10, 2008 @ 11:47 am

Filed Under: Facebook, Mobile, Web Tagged With: BarTab, Facebook

Friendster supports apps from Facebook

September 18, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

Friendster, Inc. has deployed support for the Facebook Platform on Friendster Developer Program. Tens of thousands of developers can now introduce the applications and features they’ve built on the Facebook Platform to Friendster’s 80 million users around the world. Friendster is the first major social network and social website of any kind to deploy both the OpenSocial and Facebook de facto industry standards for the benefit of Friendster users and the developer community.

Originally posted on October 6, 2008 @ 8:26 am

Filed Under: Facebook, Friendster

Doodle releases event scheduling app for Facebook

September 18, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

Online scheduling service Doodle has released a Facebook application which allows the social network’s community to easily schedule events.

The Doodle Facebook application allows users to easily find the best date and time for any kind of group event; examples include conference calls, family BBQs, business lunches, and team meetings.

Facebook users who have added the Doodle application can poll their friends for a date or time in a few simple steps. Invitations to participate in a poll can be sent via Facebook’s messaging system. Even people without a Facebook account can participate in the poll upon invitation by e-mail.

Originally posted on September 2, 2008 @ 7:05 pm

Filed Under: Facebook

Talkster launches calling application on Facebook

September 15, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

Talkster, the company that delivers instant mobile voice and text communications to online communities, has launched Talkster Phone Party on Facebook. The new application brings Facebook users an easy way to set up and manage free Talkster long distance, international, and group conference calls, directly from their Facebook profile pages.

Built on Facebook Platform, Talkster’s Phone Party not only delivers free calls to and from more than 34 countries, but also allows Facebook users to preserve the privacy of their personal phone numbers when calling or receiving calls from their Facebook friends around the world.

Anything that can save us on cost of placing calls is always good.

Originally posted on July 15, 2008 @ 9:38 am

Filed Under: Facebook, Social Network

Bebo and Facebook application developers offered guaranteed CPM

September 15, 2023 By Dennis Bouchand Leave a Comment

AOL’s advertising business Platform-A is offering Bebo and Facebook application developers a guaranteed CPM or U.S. traffic to their applications.

The offering is part of the WIDGNET publisher network launched earlier this year by Platform-A’s Advertising.com. WIDGNET is an offering that allows advertisers to add fresh inventory to their media mix by placing advertising within widgets and similar applications found in the WIDGNET network.

Through WIDGNET, Bebo and Facebook application developers will gain access to Platform-A’s vast base of brand and performance advertisers. The guaranteed CPM rates will apply to the first three impressions for each unique U.S. visitor who visits an approved developer’s application.

Originally posted on June 30, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

Filed Under: Ad Network, Advertising, AOL, Bebo, Facebook, Social Network

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