Halifax Holiday Matchmaker Application
Everyone seems to use Facebook to connect with friends, businesses or play moronic games such as Farmville. It’s almost given that even your mother and father will have a piece of the social networking pie.
As much as its fun to sarcastically criticize Facebook for being probably the most cheesiest, time-wasting activity anyone can indulge in, it’s completely fair to say it has its uses – connecting with long lost friends and playing ‘moronic’ games.
Our profiles seem to say a lot about each other. You do get people who spend hours modifying their profile with the most hip and happening quotes/comments, music taste and tagging themselves in those kinds of photos that you would never show to a prospective employer – we all do it. The Truth is told your profile says a huge amount about yourself.
Have you ever wondered (based on your profile) where an ideal holiday destination would be? Now there’s an app for that!
Halifax have created a Halifax Holiday Matchmaker application – a rare thing; a Facebook application which is genuinely creative, useful and entertaining all at the same time. It analyzes the content (tailored or not!) from your ‘profile’ and gives you the ‘ideal’ holiday destination for your holiday. It also tells you cool things to do at the given location, what the weather is like and if you ‘match’ say Paris, it will give you best place to buy the ultimate Parisian tourist souvenir: A Plastic Eiffel Tower. Luckily it will also link to you Halifax’s Travel money site so you can get your travel money at a great price.
Now the exact workings out of how this is calculated is a mystery to me (probably some technical algorithm which only the geekiest amongst us could possibly understand). However, I’m fairly pleased with the destination which it gave me. Which coincidentally is Paris.
As you can see from the slightly cropped screen-shot above it gives me a place to stay and below that contains more information on the area. All in all it’s a fairly nifty application. However if I am going to be slightly critical I would have to mention that it’s a real shame that the information is limited. I would prefer to have the suggestions for things like flights to Paris, Car Rental in France and other ‘fairly essential’ bits of information should you actually wish to take Halifax up on their offer.
All in all a great app – but I would imagine it would be better, if the tech team in charge put some more effort into adding in ‘real travel essentials’…
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