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I got a kick out of this<\/a> this morning, and I couldn’t help but sharing. This morning I received an email alerting me to a contest that was going on, an opportunity to win a trip to the southwest town of Biarritz, France – it was the first city I ever lived in here in France, so I clicked through out of curiosity. How curious: the contest is organized by Leetchi<\/a>, who recently announced their payments API MangoPay<\/a>, in partnership with Capitaine Train<\/a>, a web app for ordering train tickets to anywhere in Europe, and Airbnb<\/a>, who is killing it in France<\/a>, likely because Paris is the most visited city in the world. They are also doing the contest<\/a> in cooperation with the Biarritz Tourisme bureau, which says a lot about how digitally connected local towns are in France.<\/p>\n The Facebook contest<\/a>\u00a0itself is being managed by Kontest<\/a>, who, last October,\u00a0rebooted its Facebook contest platform<\/a> to make it even easier to organize a facebook contest that abides by Facebook’s ever-changing rules. So we’ve got three French startups, a major US startup with heavy activities in France, and a local tourism bureau. The winner of the contest gets free travel,\u00a0accommodation, and, well, nice beaches, along with 3 friends to boot.<\/p>\n We talk a lot about the French ecosystem – how things are changing, what works and doesn’t – but it’s nice to be reminded every once in a while that the French digital ecosystem is self-sustaining enough to power a cooperative effort like this – all four of these participants are getting great exposure, and a great example of how to introduce Facebook users to these services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got a kick out of this this morning, and I couldn’t help but sharing. This morning I received an email alerting me to a contest that was going on, an opportunity to win a trip to the southwest town of Biarritz, France – it was the first city I ever lived in here in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":12981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[7781,8096,8902],"class_list":["post-12980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-airbnb-en-2","tag-capitaine-train-en-2","tag-leetchi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}