Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Facebook Application Review of Friendshirt

Nice T-Shirt Mr FACEBOOK

The Facebook Application Review of today is about the interesting app called Friendshirt. This Facebook App is one of a kind at least among all the already posted in this Blog because it's nature it's totally different from the typical game or questionnaire app.

Basically this Facebook Application will help you to create a unique T-Shirt featuring all your friends' profile-images in a big picture. The use and understanding of this App could not be done easier and the idea in my opinion is very good.

They also included in the last update of this Facebook Application the option to select the pictures from one of your photo albums, which makes thing more interesting

The only variable that users can modified is the amount of pictures to be included in the big collage of profile pictures (that are randomly selected from all your Facebook Friends)

Once the design has been made you can print the T-shirts with different companies at a minimum of 15.96 USD / 9.99 EUR excluding shipping.

Overall this Facebook Application is really easy & a fun and also an interesting way to show the world who your best friends are!. My qualification for this Facebook Review is 3.7 out of 5, they did a great job by merging a Facebook Application with a tangible product.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Facebook Application Review of Should I?

Should I ask in FACEBOOK?

Today's Facebook Application Review is about the App called Should I?, which is an interesting application for the current times when micro blogging platforms such as Twitter are making such a big buz on the web engaging people through short and concise messages.

This Facebook Application is about asking if you should or shouldn't do something. The idea of this is to be able to throw the question to the Facebook community so as to see what kind of reply you will receive and maybe like that help you to decide.

When you install this Facebook Application yuo only have to write your question, and if you want more options than the common closed answers (Yes & No) you can customize the options so as to guide the audience.

If I could ask something to be improved in this Facebook Application that would be to ask them to be more strict when it comes to write a Should I sentence, because I've seen lot's of messages that just have nothing to do with a Should I question (which I think can bring interesting content to the app)

Overall this Facebook Application is fun and can be engaging but not for a long period of time. My qualification for this Facebook Review is 3.7 out of 5 .

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Facebook Application Review of Wordy

Playing with words on FACEBOOK

The Facebook Application Review of today is called Wordy and it's about playing with Words, yes you heard me right words it is this time.

Basically this Facebook Application is made up of several different interesting and challenging games with words which will prove you how skilled you are when it comes to connecting the letters under time pressure, or letters restrictions.

Once you install this Facebook Application you will find yourself immerse in an addictive new universe of word games that support various vocabulary types, different game modes (individual & multiplayer) and monthly and all-time top scores so as to measure our performance with the other Facebook users.

When I started writing this Facebook Review I thought about this Application as a simple Words game platform but after some minutes checking all the features on it I realized it wasn't only about fun games but also about very addictive and challenging puzzles that also helped me to orrect some of my spelling while playing.


Overall this Facebook Application is a great achievement because of the level of engagement that users reach while playing the games which by the way are very good.

If I could ask for only one modification of this App, that would be the fact that some of the features can only be unlocked by following some of their instructions such as inviting people to use this Facebook Application...soemthing that always is a turn of in my opinion.

The rest is just fine, so my qualification for this Facebook Review is 4.3 out of 5, good Job they did, and I am sure that you will really enjoy it.


Monday, March 16, 2009

Facebook Application Review of New York Times Advanced Archive by Richard DiBona

New York Times in FACEBOOK
The Facebook Application Review of today is about the App developed by Richard DiBona called New York Times Advanced Archive. This amazing Facebook app is one of a kind and as far as I know the first one to use the recently released API from the New York Times database.

This Facebook Application allows users to browse and search the full New York Times article archive back to 1981, drilling down on search results by topic, people mentioned, geographical places, organizations mentioned, or type of article.

Also besides the past articles browsing feature, you can see in real time news as soon as they are published in The New York Times (like a Newswire), so it's not only about what happened in the past but also what is happening right now... and everything in this very well thought Facebook Application.

Honestly I was very impress when I came into this Facebook Application not only because of the fast access to news from some long years ago but also because among all the Reviews made in this Facebook Blog I never came to an Application that really makes use of the potential provided by an API of this kind.

Overall this Facebook Application as you will be able to read in it's description is a great Facebook pastime and my qualification for this Facebook Review is a solid 5 out of 5, Richard DiBona did a great Job and also through this application really contributed to the quality of content offer to the Facebook community.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Facebook Application Review of Qizr

Asking with Images in FACEBOOK

The Facebook Application Review of today is called Quizr, the Social Image Quiz.

This Facebook Application is an Image Quiz type app, where you will see a picture and you will have to answer what are you looking at. The interesting thing about this Facebook Application is that they develop it with an interesting twist, because what separates this one from other standard quiz Applications is that you will compete in real time with other users on Facebook to be the first to guess an Image quiz.

One extra feature of this Facebook Application is that you can also confine your quiz to one of your Facebook groups- or maybe create a group just for that purpose.

The categories, have been well thought and some of the quizzes are very hard which makes the application more interesting. For example this one...


If I could suggest some extra things that would be more quizzes (which is just a matter of time because users can create their own Quizzes), and maybe some background Images so as achieve the look and feel that makes application not look like an only text app.

The qualification for this Facebook Review is 4 out of 5, good twist to make something standard in Facebook a little bit more interesting and engaging.


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Facebook Application Review of Blog Box

Are you Blogging in FACEBOOK?

Today's Facebook Application Review is about the new and interesting app called Blog Box, which is basically an interesting Blogging platform for Facebook. Yes I am not wrong neither confuse, we are still talking about Facebook and thanks to this smart Application now Blogging is also possible in our favorite Social Network.

With this Facebook Application there are some very good things that you can do such as
  • Automatic import your content from your existing blog supporting the most popular platforms such as Blogger and WordPress.
  • Blog for Facebook Pages
  • Use it as a stand alone Blogging platform to write, insert links, lists, tables, etc.
  • Embed videos from YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe and others
  • Atom feed - your readers will be able to add your blog to Google Reader or any other feed reader

Overall this is a very good Facebook Application well thought with all the basic needs covered in order to Blog as I am use to do it in this Facebook Blog.

If I could ask for one thing to be added to this Facebook Application that would probably be the possibility to customize the Blogs template so as to make it look better.

The qualification for this Facebook Review is 4 out of 5, good design of the features and tight functionality.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Facebook Applciation Review of Musical Massage

Musical Messages coming to FACEBOOK


Today's Facebook Review is about the interesting Application called Musical Message. This Facebook Application as it's name announces it's about sending messages to your friends but instead of using the same old and boring text/picture message now you can send your message in a music format.

After you install this Facebook Application you will have to go over three simple and fast steps, such as choosing who will receive your music message, then pick up the right music message, out of lot's and lots of cool and fun messages and then if you want you can add some text message.



Basically the developers of this Facebook Application thought about everything because also you have the option to choose if you want your message to be public or private, so as to let you feel free and confident while using this application.

The idea of this Application is to bring to the Facebook users a small sample of all the things that can be done in the site www.songforsomeone.com where you can buy your personalize musical message and much more.

Overall this Facebook application is fun, has a great design and the messages are cool and very usable.

The qualification for this Facebook Application Review is 4 out of 5, I really liked the twist from a virtual gift to a personalized musical message.