Facebook Graffiti Widget Review
Published by Rodney Rumford June 2nd, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Review, Facebook Video, facebook developer, facebook widgets.
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So this is the first drawing widget that we have seen for facebook. It is from the people at Graffiti. It is perfect for letting your friends leave sketches on your wall. It is a great creative outlet and allows you to have some pretty entertaining drawings on your profile wall. I have to tell you that it is so intuitive and easy that a monkey could use this facebook widget application (I would only change the dynamite icon to an eraser).
Click to begin, choose the brush size, choose the color and draw. If you want to erase the entire sketch just click the dynamite stick (I would suggest changing the dynamite icon to an eraser). Click the disk to save when you are finished and it is saved. Your drawing will instantly appear on that wall. You and the profile owner both have the ability to delete the drawing with 1 click.
The only downside I see of this application is that if you have huge numbers of friends and they decide to put up some questionable graffiti… I guess that is why it is called Graffiti. 
It would be nice to moderate and approve a drawing before it actually hits the wall and goes live. I would also like to see more brush sizes and colors in future versions. How about doing graffiti over images?
I spoke with the developers of the facebook grafffiti widget this morning and they assured me they are looking into these issues and more enhancements will be forthcoming. I say let your true colors show and get creative and have fun with this graffiti widget. I am sure your friends will make you smile with their artwork.
You can get the graffiti facebook widget here: http://apps.facebook.com/graffiti/
Be sure to check out the Facebook Application Group on facebook here.
You can watch the video on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2976410174
Here are a few samples:
UPDATE:In keeping with the style of the standard Facebook wall, they have added a See All function at the top of the wall, allowing users to review their entire graffiti wall history.
They have also added a much-requested wall-to-wall function. Again, mirroring the functionality of the standard Facebook wall, this option displays the Graffiti interaction of two specific people. The Graffiti application now offers undo support.
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Awesome review. Thank you so much for taking an interest in our application. I hope everybody else enjoys it too!
Alex,
Your welcome. We think this widget is really fun and has lot’s of potential. All we can say is that we enjoy it and find it cooooool as beans man.
best of luck with it.
facereviews team
Hey Facereviews Team,
When you get a chance, take a look at http://apps.facebook.com/graffitiwall/ We launched it a week ago and have 200,000+ users now.
You rock,
MARK
Hahaha
I think Mark should pick on somebody his own size
Yeah, Graffiti Wall is really cool as well. While the Graffiti app has about 1,000 users subscribed, Graffiti Wall has over a million. Plus, there are more color options, which is always nice!
Check this out: http://apps.facebook.com/graffitiwall/graffiti.php?to_id=615883
Actually Noah, this Graffiti app now have more colors than the Graffiti Wall. In addition to an opacity slider, it also has a darkness/lightness slider, and coupled with the immense color selection, this leads to a virtually infinite number of colors that you can choose from.
Also, this Graffiti has text support, which is going to improve dramatically in the next few weeks and really broaden the scope of what you can use this application for.
Hey Alex,
Graffiti Wall allows you to enter #000000 to #FFFFFF, which is as infinite as Graffiti, but also allows you entire SPECIFIC colour, rather than using a manual slider. What if you were drawing with one colour, went to another, and wanted to go back to a previous colour? How would you find it?
Does Graffiti have an UNDO button? That is crucial. What if you’re so far into a drawing and need to go back a step or two? All I saw was a Dynamite icon which completely erases your drawing.
Those are two reasons why I would choose Graffiti Wall over Graffiti. The only thing I see that Graffiti has over Graffiti Wall is this so-called “font option”. It’d be awesome to have to type out letters instead of having to draw them in.
With Graffiti Wall’s “UNDO button” and “colour choosing scheme”, I can make very detailed drawings, and which is why I still choose the Graffiti Wall application over the Graffiti application.
Hi!
We have developed a smiliar projekt at http://wikiloo.com few month ago, an online loo wall. check it out.
You should also check out Animated Graffiti, it just launched a couple of weeks ago. It was the first to have animation on Facebook. It has a lot of unique features like Live Effects.
http://apps.facebook.com/animatedgraffiti
okay guys,
first of all, i like all the three drawing app (graffiti, graffitiwall, and animated graffiti), but still no clear winner yet imho, heres a quick review from me:
graffiti:
( ) simple, ability to save
(-) i hate their GUI compared to others
graffitiwall:
( ) most users, most my friends installed it
(-) still buggy, needs a lot of bug and error fixes
animated graffiti:
( ) most features of the three
(-) hogs a whole lot of RAM (at least on my computer) when doing complex drawing to the point it lags about 5 second for brush strokes to show up on screen!
peace!