Group Talk Facebook Application

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What is the Group Talk Facebook Application?

The Group Talk Facebook Application, from Rebtel, allows you to make FREE international calls with your friends. Group Talk lets you speak with up o 20 people at the same time.

I’m really impressed with the system they have setup to allow the conference calls. The way it works is you provide your cell phone number to the Group Talk Facebook app. After that, you can schedule a conference call with your Facebook friends. Group Talk will send each of your friends a number to call at the scheduled time so you can all talk to each other.

The best part of Group Talk is that the only price you pay is cost for a local call. You can’t beat that!

Group Talk is perfect for Facebook users who are traveling abroad. It’s a cheap easy way to reconnect with friends and family back home.

Group Talk Pros

• Make free long distance conference calls
• Super easy to use. Even a caveman could do it.
• Talk with up to 20 people at the same time
• The app makes scheduling calls a breeze

Group Talk Cons

• Couldn’t find any. Very well done.

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Pick-Up Sports Organizer Facebook Application

What is the Pick-Up Sports Organizer Facebook Application?

Do you play pick-up sports? Have you noticed how hard it is sometimes to organize a game of basketball? All your friends have different schedules, so you end up making several calls to finalize your plans. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have one place where all your friends can see where the game is, who’s coming, who’s bringing what, and what time the game is?

Well, thanks to the Pick-Up Sports Organizer Facebook App, organizing a pick-up is easy. After installing the app, you can Pick-Up Sports Organizer lets you quickly create a new game. Just put in what kind of sport you’re playing, when it’s going to be, and where. Your friends who are using the app will instantly know the details of the game.

Another great feature Pick-Up Sports Organizer has is the ability to create and join pick up games open for everybody. Let’s say you’re new in town and are wanting to play some soccer. Problem is you don’t have anybody to play with. Just enter in the city you’re living in and see if any games are open and show up. It’s that easy.

Pick-Up Sports Organizer Pros

• Organize pick-up games quickly and easily
• Leverages Facebook’s social network in order to provide a very useful service
• Find pick-up games in your area to play in

Pick-Up Sports Organizer Cons

• I couldn’t find any. Great app!

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My House Plans Facebook Application

What is the My House Plans Facebook App

My House Plans is a simple Facebook application that allows you to save and share house plans that you like. While at first flush, such an app sounds boring, but it’s actually very fun to use. You get lost looking at all the different plans trying to find what your dream house will look like. A nice feature in My House Plans is that you can see which plans are the most popular which makes finding the best house plans easier to find.

If you’re wondering where you find house plans to save, the app lets you browse different floor plans without leaving Facebook and tagging the ones you like.

My House Plans Pros

• It’s surprisingly useful if you’re in the market to building your own house. I can see this Facebook application getting more popular as Faebook users become full fledged adults with families
• TONS of houses to choose from
• Easily find the best floor plans by browsing the “Most Popular” section
• Get suggestions for different floor plans from your friends

My House Plans Cons

• Couldn’t find any. This app is simple, but does a solid job at what it was designed to do.

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Probook Facebook Application

What is the Probook Facebook App?

Probook is a simple, but effective professional directory. When I first started playing around with it, it reminded me a lot of LinkedIn. What I like about Probook is that its a professional directory that’s parred down to the bare essentials. After installing the app, you are asked to select which profession you are in and give a brief description of yourself.  Friends and contacts you have made can give you a rating that potential employers could use as a basis for recommendations. They can also leave short feedback messages about you.

Probook Facebook App Pros

• Simple. Some apps are getting way to complicated. It’s nice to see one that values simplicity.
• Leverages social network by allowing you to rank your friends.
• Connect with others in your profession.

Probook Facebook App Cons

• There are few bugs. One that I noticed when I used it was when I was typing in the “About” box, instead of staying in the box, the text continued out of it.
• It would be nice if there were different categories for the rankings that deal with work like “creativity” or “work ethic” or “leadership.” That way employers will have a better view of your strength and weaknesses in these areas.
• Other than that, I couldn’t see any other improvements that could be made this app. Great job!

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Wiki Whiteboard Facebook Application

What is Wiki Whiteboard Facebook App?

Wiki Whiteboard is a really cool Facebook app. Really cool. You can create an wiki within Facebook that you and your friends can use to collaberate on projects or just collaborate on creating fun content.  Editing is super easy with its WYSIWYG get editor. Another awesome feature on Whiteboard are the widgets you can add to your wiki. There are a ton of them like a YouTube video widget which allows you to put videos on your Whiteboard Wiki. I also liked how Whiteboard has set up several ready to go templates for you to use based on your needs, like a party planner or note taking template. Overall this is a great app!

Wiki Whiteboard Pros

• Easily collaborate with your friends on a wiki in Facebook.
•  Very easy to use.
• Add widgets to your wiki in a snap!
• Ready to go templates to help get you started on your collaboration.

Wiki Whiteboard Cons

• I couldn’t find anything wrong with this app! It’s awesome!

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Criticker Facebook Application

What is the Criticker Facebook App?

Criticker is a movie review app from the film recommendation community site, Criticker.com.  Criticker lets you show in your profile page what films you’ve been watching lately and get recommendations from your friends on new movies to watch. There are tons of movies to choose from. I liked how they not only have older movies, but also recent releases. You have to rank the movies on the Criticker website, so you’ll have to leave Facebook. Also, in order to have your reviews show up on your profile, you have to manually refresh your profile.

Criticker Pros

• Leverages Facebook’s social network by allowing you to get movie recommendations from your friends.
• Huge selection of movies to choose from. Seriously. A ton.
• Access to a huge online movie review forum.

Criticker Cons

• You have to leave Facebook to actually rank the movies. It’s not that big of a deal, but a more integrated app would be much more user friendly.
• You also have to manually refresh your profile every time you make a review. However, this isn’t the developer’s fault. Facebook won’t let them do it any other way.

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Hypercube Facebook Application

What is the Hypercube Facebook application?

Hypercube allows Facebook users to collect and share web widgets that they discover right in their Facebook profile. For example, say you’re cruising Google Gadgets and you spot a cool web widget that you like and would like to share with others. Just copy the code and paste in Hypercube. Your Facebook friends will be able to see which apps you have saved. In addition, you can view your friends’ widgets to discover new widgets.

That’s not all. Hypercube has been designed to integrate with a forthcoming release of Amnesty’s Hypercube desktop platform. The desktop will automatically sync with Facebook, so the apps you have stored will be displayed on the Hypercube desktop.

Hypercube Pros

• Takes advantage of Facebook’s social network by allowing users to share web widgets with each other.
• Super easy to use
• You can run your favorite web apps within Facebook.

Hypercube Cons

• It would be cool if you could display on your profile which widgets you have saved. Right now, it just shows the number.
• A most popular widget feature would be nice too.

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Funny4MySpace Facebook Applications

Funn4MySpace isn’t a single Facebook application. Rather, it’s a site with several different My Space and Facebook applications. Each widget works in both Facebook and MySpace. What kind of apps does Funny4MySpace have? Let’s find out.

The name of the site should give you a good indication of what kind of apps to expect. They’re all funny or fun. There’s  Homer Simpson Quote App, a Worst Pick Up Line App, and a Joke of the Day App, just to name a few. In all, Funny4MySpace offers 18 different apps.

All the apps are nicely designed with bright colors, so they’ll stand out on your Facebook page.

While these apps are fun, the draw back is they don’t take advantage of Facebook’s social network. There’s no collaborating going on with them which is one of the biggest advantages of having an app on Facebook.

If you’re looking for a fun app to decorate your Facebook page, then definitely check out Funny4MySpace.

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Trip Match Facebook Application

What is the Trip Match Facebook Application?

Trip Match combines vacation planning with the power of Facebook’s social network. Trip Match makes trip planning super easy. The coolest feature on Trip Match is the slick slidebar travel preference widget. You have four slidebars- budget, pace, outdoor, family- that you can adjust according to your preference. So, if you want a cheap, slow paced, outdoor, family oriented trip, just adjust the slidebars to that preference and Trip Match will spit out an ideal trip based on your preferences. The trip ideas are taken from user submissions.

Additionally, Trip Match lets you invite your friends to help plan your trip. This is a perfect way to get everyone’s input all in one place.

If you decide to plan your own trip with out the help of the preference tool, Trip Match makes it super easy. You can easily set up a daily itinerary and list of hotels where you’ll stay at.

When you’re done with your trip, your Facebook friends will be able to see the good times you had.

Trip Match Pros

• Easy to use!
• The preference slideruler makes trip planning super easy by giving you suggestions.
• Collaborate trip planning with your friends.
• Easily share your awesome trips with your Facebook friends

Trip Match Cons

• Man, Facebook app developers must be getting better and better. I couldn’t find anything wrong with this app!

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dotName Facebook Application

What is the dotName Facebook Application?

The dotName app helps you create your own domain name and email address from your name. Sign up is pretty easy. All you do is select how you want your domain name to look, dotName creates it for you. Mine right now is http://brett.mckay.name. The default is that your domain name will take people to your Facebook profile. You can change it, though, if you want. The domain name is free for the first 90 days, after that you either can let it expire or  purchase it on one of the plans.

dotName Pros

• Super easy to use
• Create you own custom domain so your friends can get directly to your
  Facebook profile.

dotName Cons

• No leveraging of Facebook’s social network. All it does is create your domain name.
• It’s only free for 90 days. I couldn’t find how much their charging to register your domain, but I think alot of people might be turned off because of this.

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