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Restaurant Bucket List (From Ben Reid, CEO)
Today we fully launch our new Facebook Timeline App called Restaurant Bucket List, and this is a request for help from all of SLP.
Restaurant Bucket List is a simple and social way to keep track of and share all of the restaurants that are “on your list” to try as well as those you have already been to, to see the same for your friends, and to see where you have in common. In conjunction with today’s “official” launch, we released features that also allow you write a comment or mini-review to go along with restaurants you add to your Bucket List or your Visited List, either to tell your friends why you want to go or, for Visited restaurants, what you thought of it. The idea is that you could fish through what the strangers on Yelp say, but a short list of friends’ opinions is even better and promotes meaningful social interaction. See screenshots of these features in action at the end of this email.
Restaurant Bucket List is an Open Graph app. This means we have Facebook-approved actions that make it automatically (but tastefully and in a controlled manner) show your friends when you “Bucket List” or “Visit” a restaurant, exactly like how it tells you when a friend “Listened” to a song on Spotify. This sharing mechanism is very important for growth of the app. The hope is that as users add restaurants and their friends see “Ben bucket listed The French Laundry on Restaurant Bucket List”, that it spurs interaction with friends (“Hey, I’ve always wanted to go too, let’s go!”) and, ultimately, leads their friend to use the app as well.
Hopefully you find personal value in what we’re doing – we hope to connect you better to your friends around the restaurants you want to go to and have been to (called an “interest graph” or “taste graph”) – but even if not this is a humble request for anyone who is willing to give the app a try and lend us a hand to use Restaurant Bucket List on Facebook, and more than that, add multiple restaurants to your Bucket Lists and Visited Lists so that it generates those Open Graph stories for your friends and hopefully starts the growth engine and encourages them to join. Facebook apps sometimes get a bad rap, but I promise you Restaurant Bucket List is not spammy, will never post anything on your behalf that you didn’t type in, and strongly respects your privacy.
