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As we stated earlier, of the applications presented in the Madrid Facebook Developer Garage, the one I thought was most interesting was Meet Your Friends developed for eDreams by Demini.

To make a comparison, we could say that Meet Your Friends is a Dopplr within Facebook and with more of a focus towards leisure travel than business travel.

I found it very interesting that upon entering Facebook, eDreams has not limited itself to creating a version of its portal or develop a search application for cheap flights which would be the most basic thing to do, but rather they have stretched to create a well-rounded tool that could be very interesting for travellers and tourists who have Facebook as their preferred social network.

Although the developers of Meet Your Friends are still carrying out some improvements in the application, I think it’s worth giving it a try and check out its integration with Google Maps within Facebook, the community options that it presents, …

Surely we will soon be able to see how well received it is in the Facebook community and whether it goes on to have the kind of success enjoyed by other applications like TripAdvisor.

Since some time now I had the desire to see new things developed for ‘themselves’ by the people at The Cocktail as they did with La Coctelera.

Alberto Knapp has been commenting since long on his twitter that he is very much interested in mobile applications, and apart from that is supporting specific events for developers of these applications and also collaborating with the Open Movilforum platform.

This interest has manifested itself with the launch of Tvienes, which Alberto has just announced. The application has been developed by the team of The Cocktail based on API’s available in Open Movilforum and it basically serves the purpose of meeting up with a group of friends via messages to the mobile or email.

As I so much like the applications developed at The Cocktail, I threw myself in to try it out. I loved the registration process, everything is explained to perfection and the process to create an event and invite people is also very well executed, not as much as the registration process though, but it shows that the work has been done by experts in usability.

The structure, design and functioning of the web reminds us of Twitter, which made me think as soon as I started using it that apart from being able to send invitations to events via mobile or email, it should also allow the same function in Twitter.

After trying it out, I thought that one thing that could be added is that the message sent to the mobile includes some information regarding the event. As it is right now, you only receive the name of the event and a web address to enter and see the rest of the information.

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Update: I forgot to mention that Alberto Knapp will be in the next Iniciador to talk about product development.

Read the origital post in spanish.