Event Countdown Facebook App

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What is the Event Countdown Facebook App?

Event Countdown shows the time remaining before an event takes place. It is similar to the ‘Countdown’ app in its use, but has several differences that may be more suitable for some uses. For instance, Event Countdown allows you to display the time remaining as simple text or a dynamic scoreboard. It also lets you count up, if you want to know how long an event has been going on for (for example, the amount of time before a quitter had their last cigarette).

Event Countdown Pros

• Counts up as well
• Can be displayed as simple text or as a scoreboard image.

Event Countdown Cons

• Must be updated manually (creator is apparently working on this)

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Paris Hilton/Abe Vigoda Facebook App

What are the Paris Hilton/Abe Vigoda Status Apps?

Designed by Robert Balousek, the Paris Hilton and Abe Vigoda status apps are some of the funniest apps on Facebook. The Paris Hilton app sends up to the minute updates on whether or not Paris is in jail. The Abe Vigoda app lets those visiting your profile know if Abe is still alive. Unless you’re in a poll for these kinds of things, they’re not very useful, but they do provide a good laugh for any new visitors.

Paris Hilton/Abe Vigoda Status Pros

• Very funny.
• The discussion board on the Abe Vigoda Status page also has humourous daily updates.

Paris Hilton/Abe Vigoda Status Cons

• Useless.
• Paris was recently released, so the joke is kind of over.

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DeeJay Facebook App

What is the DeeJay Facebook App?

DeeJay allows users to create a top ten music chart to display on their profile. The app seems to be targeted toward electronic DJs, though it’s fairly easy for even the most tone deaf of people to get into. This does, however, create some limitations with the genres that can be selected for each list and also causes some confusing terminology to appear. It does not actually play any of the music on the list, although it allows you to attach a chart to any facebook message you send, making it easy to let your friends know what songs you are listening to. Charts can be retitled, creating endless possibilities for High-Fidelity-like, desert island, top-five countdowns.

DeeJay App Pros

• “Share a Chart” button appears while messaging, allowing you to easily share what you’re listening to.
• Lets people know what you’re listening to, what your favourite songs are.
• Allows multiple charts which can be edited or deleted at any time.

DeeJay App Cons

• Uses confusing DJ language; words like ‘delete’, ‘edit’, and ‘home’ become ‘mute’, ‘tweak’, and ‘DJ Booth’
• Songs can not be dragged and dropped when rising or falling in the charts- the whole field must be retyped in a different position.
• Limited to one genre per chart; selectable genres are limited to electronic music and its variations (though you may also enter your own genre).

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Gottabet Facebook App

What is the Gottabet Facebook App?

Gottabet allows you to create bets and invite friends to participate. There’s no actual money involved, so you don’t have to worry about losing money. (It also would be illegal.) Your bets are displayed in your Facebook Profile for all your friends to see. When you create a bet, you just fill out a one line form saying ” I bet….” , followed by what you want to bet.

Gottabet Pros

• Nice integration with Facebook
• It’s pretty fun

Gottabet Cons

• It would be cool if you could comment on your friends’ bets
• Doesn’t have a betting leader board so you can’t see who’s won the most bets.

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My Personality Facebook App

What is the My Personality Facebook App?

My Personality creates a personality profile to be displayed in your Facebook Profile. When you first install the app, you fill out a simple psychological personality questionnaire. After that, the app creates personality graph showing your personality. You can answer up to 100 of the questions in order to get a more accurate reading. The app will also display any personality disorders that the test finds.

My Personality App Pros

• Nice Facebook integration
• Lots of questions
• From my first test, it seems pretty accurate

My Personality App Cons

• I couldn’t really find any with this one. No bugs or glitches
• Better social leveraging would be nice. Maybe a display of what the most common personality traits are.

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SplashCast Facebook App

Best Facebook Applications reader Cody recommended this application. Thanks for the tip, Cody!

What is the SplashCast Facebook App?

SplashCast allows you to create your own channels to which programming from across the web can be added, including video, pics, podcasts, and music. All this is then embedded into your Facebook profile. Basically, this app does the job of five different Facebook applications.

For example, say you’re a baseball fan. You could create a channel or “show” dedicated to your favorite team. Included in that channel are video clips of games, and pics of your favorite players, Pretty dang awesome if you ask me.

SplashCast App Pros

• Compile your web content all in one place
• Awesome integration with Facebook
• Very slick looking interface
• Super easy to use

SplashCast App Cons

• Some people have reported problems uploading certain files, but there are work arounds that are pretty easy.
• Other than that, I haven’t seen anything else wrong with this app.

SplashCast is an example of what a Facebook application should strive to be. Instead of just trying to do one simple task, applications should look to do several things well at the same time. Cheers to the SplashCast developers!

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Stocks Facebook App

What is the Stocks Facebook App?

The Stocks app was developed by Forbes.com. With the Stocks app, you can easily track the stocks you’ve invested in right from Facebook. The app allows you to track up to ten different companies. In addition to tracking your stocks performance, the Stocks app has a feed of the most recent news about your companies. In addition to keeping track of your own stock, you can also track your friends’ stocks.

Stocks App Pros

• Good integration with Facebook
• Takes advantage of social network by allowing you to see what others have invested in.

Stocks Cons

• Limited to the number of stocks you can track. What if you have more than 10 stocks in your portfolio?

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Files Facebook App

What is the Files Facebook App?

The Files app allows you to upload files to your Facebook profile using the files app. Box.net hosts all the files for you for free. In addition, you can see what your friends have uploaded to Box. You can also share files with the Box app as well. You’ll have to start an account with Box.net in order to use this app.

Files App Pros

• Free file storage up to 1GB
• Easily share files with friends

Files App Cons

• The app takes up a lot of space on your profile. But you can put it at the bottom of your profile page if you think it’s getting in the way.
• It would be nice if they allowed searching and tagging of files uploaded through the app.

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Twitter Facebook App

What is the Twitter Facebook app?

The Twitter app allows you to run the popular messaging tool Twitter from Facebook. Twitter is a way you can keep your friends updated with what you’re doing at any given moment. In order to use this app you’ll need an account with Twitter.

Twitter App Pros

• Easily keep your friends on Facebook and Twitter up to date with what you’re doing.

Twitter App Cons

• Do we really need this? We already have the Status feature on Facebook that does the same thing as Twitter.
• It would be cool if Twitter and Facebook status were interchangeable, ie if you update your Facebook status, it updates your Twitter account as well. I’m not sure if that will be a possibility given how Facebook has kept some control of what is and is not allowed with the apps.

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Language Exchange Facebook App

What is the Language Exchange Facebook App?

The goal of the Language Exchange app is to help you learn a foreign language by connecting you with people you can learn with. When you start out, you enter which language you want to learn, how much time you want to spend on learning, and what you current proficiency level is. Language Exchange then connects you with someone in order to teach you the language. Ideally, that other person can teach you another language in return. For example, you want to learn Spanish and someone from Mexico wants to learn English. That would be an awesome match. However, right now the demand for Spanish learners exceed the supply for Spanish teachers.

Which leads me to Language Exchange’s next feature. The app provides a list of the supply and demand for different languages. That way you can see where your services are needed and where you could probably find someone to teach you a language.

After you’ve found a partner, you all get together either in person or by phone/Skype to practice your speaking skills. Pretty cool.

Language Exchange Pros

• Learn a foreign language for free!
• Connect with someone you can SPEAK with. Speaking a foreign language is the best way to learn it.
• Lots of languages to choose from

Language Exchange Cons

• Not many users. There aren’t enough people using it, so it limits the language you can learn. There also seems to be a dearth of people to TEACH languages.

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