Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Marketplace App For Facebook

App Name: Marketplace for Facebook

Summary
One of the best applications of Facebook, Marketplace allows you to sell, give away, ask for or look for anything that you want. You can also sell for a cause to support charities. This application makes it simpler to see what your friends have posted and what can be found in your region.
The main categories found under Marketplace application include:
1.      Items for Sale
2.      Housing
3.      Vehicles
4.      Jobs

User interaction
With a conversational approach, Marketplace lets users search for the required items in the given categories.

User interface
The listing process is easy and comments are aggregated on a listed item’s “Wall”. Great emphasis is placed on items listed by your friends along with listings of items listed by people in your local area.

Utility and Productivity
The easy communication on Facebook allows people to list things on Marketplace that they wouldn’t mail to their friends otherwise. You can sell for a cause and express yourself through the causes you support. Introduced by Oodle, this concept is being leveraged by creating ways for Facebook users to sell items that benefit charity.

App Rating

(8 out of 10)

Marketplace is an excellent approach to integrating classified listings. Oodle’s conversational approach makes selling and buying items more than just a transaction, but rather an interesting experience.

Birthday Calendar Facebook App Reviews

Application name – Birthday Calendar App

Summary

Birthday Calendar application makes plotting your friends birthdays on a calendar much easier. Apart from your Facebook friends, you can add birthdays of your parents, see them in calendar format, view upcoming birthdays in your profile and send cards from Facebook collection.

User interaction

This easy to use application has great features and lets users make birthday calendar. Upcoming birthdays can be seen on the profile page in a well organized list format. These can be sorted out by last name or first name.

User interface

Adding friends to your Birthday Calendar is very simple. Not only that, you can decide when and how to receive your alerts, select holidays, set your time zone preferences and choose gifts and greeting cards from a virtual collection.

Utility and Productivity
One of the most popular applications on Facebook, Birthday Calendar provides service to online users as well as iPhone users. Most of the functions and functionalities remain the same for both, including viewing friend list, receiving alerts and notifications, sending virtual gifts to friends, text, email or calling your friends, selecting holidays and adding non-Facebook friends. Each user has a lot of flexibility to personalize their Birthday Calendar.

Rating

(9 out of 10)

Birthdays just got more interesting with this cool application that lets you send a wall post, greetings or gifts to your Facebook friends. The email notification is an opt-in feature that reminds you of upcoming birthdays, one week in advance.  Birthday Calendar is the best way to start the celebrations!

Where I’ve Been Facebook App

Where I’ve Been (A Facebook App)

I started using this app on Facebook two years ago, and I got a hoot out of clicking on all the places (Zanzibar, Timbuktu, Tierra del Fuego, Ibiza) I’ve been, including my favorite places in the mountains and on the coast.

This app’s undergone some rave changes over the last months, all for the better.  The “Discover” feature lets you check out photos and summaries and descriptions, and get “feeds” in the “Where I’ve Been” user area.

The non-feathered kind can find special flight deals, and the “ask an expert” feature let you get inside travel information about places and lodging deals. My girlfriend LuLu and I are planning a trip to Ireland, so we’ll definitely use the feature on getting advice on Bed & Breakfasts, pubs, music clubs, and, with my lips sealed, the best times to visit the Guinness brewery.

Where I’ve Been is simply owlsome! It’s like an ever-expanding travel journal and compilation of trips by thousands of users, and this wander-ful travel and social networking app provides all kinds of tips, advice, images, deals, and you even can get a bird’s eye view of places with in depth local search tools.

Why this App makes me Happy:

1. Really fun and easy to use.
2. Fantastic design and interface.
3. Very useful and informative.
4. Amazing mapping features.
5. Owlsome, awesome, original

Professor Appy gives the “WHERE I”VE BEEN” App:

;;;;; – Five Hoots! Jackpot, baby! This app’s gold!

Group Card App for Facebook

Group Card App for Facebook

Summary

It has been described as a great way to send and receive greetings. In fact, it has been described as quite possibly the finest greeting you’ll ever send or receive, although that one came from the people that actually created the app. No matter how it is described however, the one thing that cannot be denied about Group Card is that it is a useful Facebook application that people will be using for many years to come.

User Interaction

Interacting with the Group Card app for Facebook is very easy to do and essentially has two aspects. The first of these aspects occur when you are the person that has started creating the card. You need to actually go through the process of selecting a cover, signing the card and then getting all of the friends to sign the card. The good news here though is that there is no limit whatsoever to the number of people that can sign a single card. While no records are kept, it is definitely true that some cards have had thousands of signatures on them.

The other part to the interaction that you can have with the Group Card is when you are not the person that originally created the card. If you are in this position, it is actually even easier to interact with the software because all you have to do is sign the card when it comes to you. It does not get any easier than that in the world of online and mobile applications.

User Interface

The interface of the Group Card Facebook application is one that is very easy for a person to recognize and visually navigate. This is because the graphical user interface for Group Card is essentially the Facebook graphical user interface with a few more page elements added in that correspond to the actual Group Card options.

Utility and Productivity

Both the utility and productivity ratings for Group Card are quite high because of what this Facebook application is capable of.

The utility rating comes from the fact that you can use this application for all kinds of different occasions. You don’t normally just give a card to a person on their birthday and for that reason you can go totally wild with this application and create cards for people to sign across a number of different occasions.

Similarly, the productivity rating is high firstly because the utility rating is high and that therefore allows you to get a lot of mileage out of this particular online application. What makes the productivity rating even higher however is the fact that you can save all kinds of time by using this software package. Every time you use this package you save the time you would have spent carting the card around to all of the people to sign. Here you just set and forget and therefore are able to do other things with the extra time you now have.

Rating

Overall, Group Card app for Facebook is simply fantastic. It gets a rating of 9.5 out of 10.

Facebook Causes App

Facebook Causes Now Available

Summary

Facebook and any other web 2.0 site has one thing about it that really sets it apart from all of the other sites on the internet. That thing, quite simply put, is the ability to bring people together like never before. You can live in Canada and South Africa can be in your bedroom because of your ability to communicate with people around the world through Facebook. Any application that takes advantage of this unique ability is one that definitely deserves to be highlighted. Causes is an example of such an application and it could very well change the world forever.

User Interaction

Interacting with Causes is very easy to do. All you have to do is scroll around and click on buttons that represent various actions. This is the prototypical Facebook app because all of the controls on this app are controls you would find in other areas around Facebook. Therefore, the average Facebook user will have no problems adjusting to the set of controls available in Causes.

User Interface

The Causes user interface operates under the same deal as the Causes user interaction. This app is basically built into Facebook and you use it however you wish within your Facebook account. For that reason, the user interface is the Facebook user interface. Any person that has had any kind of experience working inside Facebook should not be surprised by anything that they see in Causes.

Utility and Productivity

Causes is not just a great software package in the technical sense, it is a great package in the social sense. The people that created Causes understand exactly the power of Facebook and they have leveraged that power in order to get people to organize into different social activism projects. It is not only a powerful application for the tens of millions of people that now use it, but there is every chance that it could change the world through the power of the social activism project.

It is important to remember that the best social activism projects are the ones that are well organized and therefore able to keep their members interested. The same is true for the Causes app on Facebook, as only the projects on there that have high levels of organization are able to retain members. In the world of Causes, a successful cause is not one that actually raises a lot of money, but rather one that maintains a high list of membership and spreads the word about whatever social action it is backing. With viewers given the maximum choice as to what they want to create and back, Causes has started something that could easily sweep through the rest of the web 2.0 websites.

Rating

At the end of the day, Causes is not a flashy application. Nevertheless, it is an extremely important one that people can get so much out of if they are willing to put in the time necessary to cultivate those relationships. Because of the great potential this app has, we have marked it 8.5 out of 10.

Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf App

Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf App Brings People Together

Summary

The Visual Bookshelf is a Facebook Verified App. That essentially means that people from Facebook have looked it over and said that it is fine as far as trustworthiness and security is concerned. That is a great thing, because Visual Bookshelf is quickly becoming one of the most popular apps on Facebook.

User Interaction

The two main actions that are involved with Visual Bookshelf are adding books to your own shelf and then browsing through the shelves of other Facebook users.

When you are adding books to your own shelf, all you are doing is filling out the information on a form and then clicking the submit button in order to add that book to your shelf. There is a lot of information contained within your shelf and therefore you can actually take the extra time and actions to browse through your own bookshelf in order to make sure that all of the books are there and catalogued correctly.

Similarly, you can look through the bookshelves of other people. The great thing is that you have maximum choice when it comes to how you would like to browse. For example, you can simply browse through shelves by clicking on profiles and navigating to the shelves, or you can take a look at people that have the same books in their shelf as you. The choice is endless and this is a great way to meet people that share your interests.

User Interface

User interface issues on Visual Bookshelf are non-existent. Essentially, this is an app that runs inside Facebook and steals the Facebook interface to use for its own program as well. The graphics are unique and the way in which the text is spread out across the shelf is also unique. However, the overall design of the graphical user interface still includes Facebook in it to a very large degree.

Utility and Productivity

One of the main purposes of the Facebook service is to allow people to connect with other people. Because this is one of the main purposes, any application that helps that purpose along is definitely one that gets a high utility score. The Visual Bookshelf app is one of these because you can tell a lot about a person based on what they read and more importantly what books they like. You can also judge how well two people will get along based on how similar their tastes actually are. Combine both of these together and you have Facebook’s Virtual Bookshelf.

The productivity on this software is high for the same reason. You can meet people with similar tastes in a fraction of the time it would take you to meet them in the real world. At the end of the day, that is a very important point that is most definitely worth emphasizing.

Rating

Visual Bookshelf is easily one of the best apps on Facebook for the reasons mentioned above. As a way of recognizing that, we have awarded Visual Bookshelf a score of 9.0 out of 10.

Pool and Pinball Facebook App

Pool and Pinball Facebook App  in one with Facebook Bumper Stars

Summary

The tag line for Bumper Stars is “Pinball, Pool, Beavers and Fruit”, although there is a whole lot of fun involved in this program beyond those things as well. Actually, that might not be entirely fair since all four of those things are a large part of why this particular Facebook game is as fun as it happens to be.

User Interaction

Another reason that Bumper Stars is so popular is that it is very easy to control. If you have ever played one of the online pool games or one of the many pinball games available online or on your cell phone, you know how easy those two types of games are to control. The same is true for Bumper Stars, which allows you to go right ahead and become one of the greatest Pinball and Pool Sharks around.

User Interface

The interface is essentially the interface of a Pinball table. You are playing Pinball, but you are also playing Pool. The interface is really not that complicated either actually, since you have an online game that is surrounded by the typical Facebook interface. It is actually quite remarkable for that reason and the easy to learn user interface is definitely something that increases the fun value of this particular game.

Utility and Productivity

Utility and productivity really come out of nowhere for this particular game. In fact, it is really only utility that is worth discussing with this game, because like most Facebook games the productivity is non-existent. It might actually be fairer to state that the productivity rating of Bumper Stars is a negative, but only because of how good the game is. Bumper Stars is so good as a game that you will become addicted to playing it and that of course will lower your productivity rating elsewhere.

As for the utility, you will find Bumper Stars to be both easy and fun. In addition to the ease of use mentioned above, Bumper Stars is easy on your system resources. It essentially does not take that much more than Facebook and even allows you to run other programs in the background quite easily while you are playing this game. When you put all of these things together, the end result is a very easy to operate game that at the same time allows you to play endlessly without having to worry about what it will do to your computer.

Rating

There are other sites that refuse to give games a mark above a certain amount because of the fact that they are essentially non-productive software packages. This is ridiculous however since it is perfectly possible for games to be designed well enough to warrant a much higher rating. We have no problems awarding games high marks and this one is designed well enough to be particularly deserving of such an honor. For that reason, we have awarded this game a mark of 8.5 out of 10. The productivity is still marked off within that particular overall marking scheme.