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Just Three Words brings creative gaming to Facebook Platform
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review, Facebook f8 platform, facebook developer.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 […]
Diss your friends with Compare People
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 14th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review.Rating:
Compare People is a not so new app from Chainn that allows you to compare friends with one another. It random selects individuals from your friend list and asks you to choose things like “Who smells better?”
The app serves no real function other than to aimlessly compare people. Sadly, this seems to be […]
Hungry for lit? Visit Facebook Visual Bookshelf
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 14th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review.Rating:
Now that forced invites are out of the way, Facebook Platform can get down to real business like sharing your favorite books with friends. Visual Bookshelf, created by Hungry Machine, is an app that allows users to input every book they’ve ever read. Your friends can then see your catalog and marvel at your […]
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 […]
Facebook Friend Finder strengthens social network
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson January 21st, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review.Friend Finder
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We’ve reviewed plenty of applications that don’t add any depth to Facebook’s functionality. Many of them exist for the sole purpose of propagating on more accounts to generate more ad revenue. They’re useless wastes of the potential and capabilities of Facebook.
Facebook recently introduced a new version of its Friend Finder application that should […]
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
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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 Trail […]
MTA Subway Status — the Facebook app
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson January 17th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review, Facebook Software, facebook Business, facebook developer, facebook widgets.MTA: Subway Status
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Don’t believe Facebook Platform is gaining traction? Last fall New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) released a Subway Status application that allows Facebook-savvy rail-riders to share their commute stats with others of similar ilk.
Subway Status creates a sort of sub-Facebook social network based around which trains one rides. For instance, […]
TeleNav asks Facebook its Whereboutz
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson January 10th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review, Facebook Software, Mobile.Whereboutz
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GPS makers TeleNav recently launched a Facebook app called Whereboutz that shows early promise for some intuitive functionality. The service works on two levels. The core of Whereboutz is built around a Facebook app that utilizes Google Maps.
From Facebook users can login and set their locations and current activities. Friends using Whereboutz can then […]
Spock beams into Facebook
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 9th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review.Spock
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Social search engine Spock has found its way into the Facebook App cache. Although the app wasn’t created by the Spock team, it is said to have the creators’ approval.
For those of you unfamiliar with the service, Spock was founded in 2006 as a search engine intended to index the ever increasing number […]
Attention South Park Fanatics - Fire Up Your Flash
22 Comments Published by Tinu August 25th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Review.Rating: The South Park Character Creator is a pretty useless, unproductive, mindless waste of precious time that you’ll never get back.
And it’s the most fun you can pack into five minutes while keeping it clean - unless of course some mistake of genetics has caused you not to be a South Park fan.
My sister […]
