Archive for the 'Facebook Fun' Category
Rating: You know all that stuff I say about Facebook games being entirely useless? It’s true, completely true, but greater men than me have tried, and failed, to withstand these potentially addictive wastes of time. With that bit of knowledge, I’m not entirely ashamed to say that I’ve been sucked into the grasps Packrat. The [...]
Snowboard Challenge Races onto Facebook & Zynga
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 4th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Groups.Snowboard Challenge Video Game Rating: Snowboard Challenge Races onto Facebook: After months of development and another month of perfecting the app, Snowboard Challenge is finally ready for prime time. I’ve been following the development of the game (since Rodney developed it) for some time now and I’m happy for him that it’s finally complete. While [...]
Just Three Words brings creative gaming to Facebook Platform
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 18th, 2008 in Facebook, facebook developer, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review.Rating: In my previous post, I expressed a considerable amount of disdain for the current state of Facebook applications. Jason Rubenstein responded to the post suggesting that I take a look at Just Three Words, a game made by his company Scoob & Gecko. Always on the lookout for apps that don’t suck, I decided [...]
MorphMonkey: Changing the faces of Facebook
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 29th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review, Facebook spam.Rating: Ah another day, another app, this one courtesy of MorphMonkey, a face morphing utility that promises to make you “Go BANANAS!!!” (more of that later). MorphMonkey launched recently an currently has a base of 701 active daily users, or about half of the total installs. Photo morphing software is nothing new, but, to the [...]
You have died of dysentery: Facebook treks the Oregon Trail
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 18th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review.Oregon Trail on Facebook Rating: Way back in 7th grade I had a typing class. I went to a Catholic grade school, so our typing assignments were always typing Bible verses and other generally inflammatory texts. If we finished typing our pages early, however, Sister Mary Patrick was kind enough to let us play Oregon [...]
Hasbro Sues Scrabulous
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 11th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun.As I mentioned earlier this week in my review of Scrabulous, the app stood on shaky legal ground. Despite being undeniably fun (hey it’s Scrabble), the game is an exact clone of Hasbro’s classic board game right down to the amount of letters and board placement — everything is identical. My concerns were confirmed today [...]
Scrabulous wins Facebook followers
6 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 7th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Trends.Scrabulous Rating: I’ve mainly resisted Facebook gaming applications due to their capacities for creating enormous sinkholes of time. As I was recently stricken with the flu, however, I found myself desperate for the time wasters that I avoid while in possession of better health. The clear choice was Scrabulous, a Scrabble-esque gaming site that was [...]
Facebook eCards Just Got Cool
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford November 4th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun.Rating: Facebook eCards Application: Cool Greeting Cards. Review by Guest Blogger Kenneth Shaw. Disclaimer: Rodney is the application owner. This past weekend, I had the chance to try out a couple different greeting card apps on Facebook. My Greeting Cards has cool flash animation cards but very few cards (25 to be exact). Birthday Greeting [...]
Bob Dylan on Facebook
8 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford September 21st, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun.Rating: We are huge Bob Dylan music fans so this facebook application was very fun for us. With the Bob Dylan Facebook application you can have a personalized video greeting from Bob on your profile page. You can also send personalized video greetings to your friends as well. This is really fun. This Bob Dylan [...]
Facebook Funny Friday: Gaping Void Cartoons
7 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford September 15th, 2007 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun.Gaping Void Cartoons Rating: The cartoon strip Gaping Void is now available as a facebook application. I am a fan of the cartoon itself. You will most likely get a smile from the cartoon. I am glad to see that they put their toe in the water with a facebook application. I am not a [...]
