Archive for December, 2007
13 Facebook 2008 Predictions
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 30th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.13 Facebook 2008 Predictions: 2007 was a banner year for facebook in many ways. Some amazing (F8 Platform). Some not so amazing (Beacon). The press loved them… Then the press chastised them. The bottom line here is that while facebook was the media darling (most of the time) in 2007. It was for good reason. [...]
Save The Rainforest On Facebook
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 30th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Video.Rating: Save The Rainforest On Facebook. I have had a chance to play with the Save the Rainforest facebook application. I like it. It is a simple application that has some nice socially conscious goals. The rainforest land is adopted through the Nature Conservancy’s “Adopt an Acre” Program. Over 17,684 square feet of rainforest have [...]
Make Your Facebook Profile Picture from Friends Pictures
6 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 27th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Mozer Rating: A fun new application on facebook is Mozer. The Mozer creates your profile picture using all your friends’ profile pics. This is done using an advanced “Mozing” method. You can then look at the “Big Picture” to see how your picture was mozed. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “You [...]
Facebook Is Language Translation CrowdSourcing
14 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 27th, 2007 in Facebook.Facebook Is Moving toward Multi-Language Ecosystem: They are tapping facebook users to help them with a crowdsourcing application around a very specific task. They have created an application called Translations that allows users to translate facebook. Users can also vote on phrases to help get the most common usage phrases correct. This is the ultimate [...]
10 Commandments for Facebook Applications
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 27th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.10 Commandments for Facebook Applications… if you want a successful application. If you don’t want a successful facebook application; ignore at your own peril. 1. Make it simple. Users DO NOT read. 2. Don’t give users more than 2 choices for navigation on a page 3. Make invites part of the process for using the [...]
Facebook is a Dinner Party – MySpace is a Rave
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 27th, 2007 in Facebook.Facebook is a Dinner Party: MySpace is a Rave. I have finally found an analogy to explain the differences between facebook vs. myspace that people seem to immediately grasp. I may show my bias and age; and for that I do not apologize. I merely have a strong preference for one over the other. Facebook [...]
Happy Holidays to All FaceReviews.com Readers!
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford December 24th, 2007 in Facebook.I want to take this time to personally wish a Happy Holiday Season to all of our readers and thank them for their support. The holidays are a time for giving thanks and being with family and loved ones. We feel especially blessed by the outpouring of support from all of our friends and readers [...]
Facebook Flying On The Edge
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 23rd, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Video.Since it is nearing the end of the year and everyone is feeling reflective; I thought that this would be an appropriate time to reflect on facebook and draw some fun/interesting analogies to this mountain wingsuit video. This video is of some insane base jumpers in the swiss alps with mountain wingsuits. They actually fly [...]
Facebook Jetman is a Blast!
7 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 22nd, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Video.Rating: Facebook Jetman Application is a Blast! This very engaging video game is sure to entertain/frustrate you for hours. Jetman allows you to choose which Jetman character you want to be. The object of the game is to fly through the cave and miss all the objects. The Jetman game randomly changes the object; thus [...]
I Want To Be Steve Ballmers Facebook Friend
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 22nd, 2007 in Facebook.I want to be Steve Ballmers Facebook Friend; but I can’t. He does not allow people to be his friend on facebook. That is most unfortunate. In any case; Steve Ballmer was speaking a few months back in Sweden and said quite a few positive things about facebook. This was before the Microsoft investment of [...]
