Category: experiences

Airbnb and Bumble push virtual first dates to stay relevant

Post author By Randall
Post date May 14, 2020
Categories In airbnb, app, bumble, contest, covid-19, experiences, gear, News, Online Dating, pandemic, social distancing, Tech, travel, virtual

[ad_1] The partners are encouraging users to, for instance, take a virtual wine class together, visit an Amsterdam jazz club, join a tarot reading, learn about coffee from a professional taster in Colombia and more. Of course, since these are public experiences, other people may join your date, but you can request private bookings. To […]

Facebook hires former Vine head for its New Product Experimentation Team

Post author By Randall
Post date July 15, 2019
Categories In apps, business, experiences, Facebook, gear, hire, Internet, jason toff, Mobile, new product experimentation, npe team, Tech, tomorrow, vine

[ad_1] Now that we’ve moved to CA, I suppose it’s a good time to share what I’m up to next! In two weeks, I’ll be joining Facebook as a PM Director starting up a new initiative under the recently formed NPE team (https://t.co/HzK6Bjqzqx) — Jason Toff (@jasontoff) July 15, 2019 Toff left Vine in 2016 […]

Facebook is working on ‘entirely new’ apps and ‘experiences’

Post author By Randall
Post date July 9, 2019
Categories In app store, apps, business, experiences, experimental, Facebook, gear, google play store, Internet, Mobile, new product experimentation, new products, npe team, Privacy, Tech

[ad_1] The NPE Team aims to be more nimble than Facebook. It says it will work quickly and won’t hesitate to shut down apps if they flounder. “We expect many failures,” Facebook wrote in a blog post. “We also want to minimize disruption to the billions of people who use Facebook apps every day.” The […]