YouPop the Question

What is the YouPop Applicatoin?

YouPop allows you to create small quizzes or polls that you can share with your friends.  Go nuts asking your peers which celebrity is crazier or test their knowledge on 80s cartoon characters. The YouPop application links whatever YouPops you have created at YouPop.com to your Facebook page for easy access. You can also add YouPops created buy other Facebook users onto your own page.

YouPop creation is extremely simple. First you pose the question and select the category. Then you add media content from the web or from your own computer (you are limited to 3 pictures/videos). The next step is to select one of three “flavors”

• Best of the Best: Where viewers pick their favorite of the 3 pictures/videos
• Star Rating: Your YouPop is rated 1 through 5 by users
• React-i-con: People express their feelings on your YouPop by deeming it good, bad or ugly.

Finally you click on publish and send your creation to your friends. Here’s the one I created.

To add it to your profile, simply go into the application via Facebook Select My YouPops then click on Post to my Facebook profile.

Pros:

• Simple to use
• Good for brief moments of distraction
• Allows you to use YouPops created by other people.

Cons:

• Limited to only 3 pictures/videos, but this is probably to help keep things simple.

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Freedom Writers

What is the Freedom Writers Application?

The Freedom Writers application’s goal is to raise $1 million dollars for the Freedom Writers Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization that helps provide funds for teachers to attend the Freedom Writers Institute and to help better the education of others by supporting the Freedom Writers Scholarship.

To accomplish this goal, the application has a system called FreedomBuck$, which are earned by filling out product information surveys from the application’s sponsors. Then, for every 25 FreedomBuck$ earned, $.25 will be donated to the Freedom Writers Foundation.

If you haven’t seen the movie Freedom Writers or read the book The Freedom Writers Diary, the general theme is how a teacher had her students write journal entries about their personal troubles, and ultimately encouraging their continuing education. This application has it’s own journal section where users can express their thoughts on various subjects, which provide interesting reading and evoke the spirit of the book.

Pros

• Journal sections are an interesting read and could be a useful communication tool
• Freedom Prompt section provides topics that help inspire writing

Cons

• The FreedomBuck$ area does not currently work. So there is no way to earn them and therefore no way that donations can be made. However, it appears that this is being worked on and sponsors have been selected.

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Politics In Canada Application

What is the Politics in Canada Application?

If you are Canadian (or at least wish you were) and are interested in current political affairs, then Politics in Canada is the application for you. This application allows you to demonstrate what political party you support. After installing the application, all you have to do is enter your postal code, then select the party that you support, and an icon (representing your political affiliation) will be placed on a map of your province.

I’ve been watching this application for the past week as more people join up. This allowed me to see what areas supported what party. A nice graph is also available to show support throughout the nation and by province. The goal of the application is to raise awareness and to get people involved politically. This is seems to be successfully accomplished by providing links to all the party’s websites.

Pros

• The maps are linked up with Google Maps, allowing you to easily see the whole country
• Everything is broken down conveniently nationally and provincially
• Links to the political party’s official websites

Cons

• Would be nice to see a description of each political party, but it seems that the developer is already on top of this and should be appearing soon.

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Ki Work Bounce

What is Ki Work Bounce?

What is the ultimate networking application for people who work online? The answer would have to be Ki Work Bounce. This application allows an individual to create a profile, aka “Ki Offer”, which can help promote who they are and what type of work they can do. Once “Offer” is complete, all information is organized into an easy to ready profile that is then placed on a network where people can see what type of work you are looking for or even let them know that you are hiring.

The important feature of Ki Work, is that your friends can “bounce” your information around their networks as well, ultimately increasing the potential of finding you a job. Another useful feature is the ability to ask people on your network questions. However, I wasn’t able to test out this feature because there was no one on my network. This seems to be the major problem with Ki Work at the moment, as the application and networking won’t be useful until more people add it and use it.

Another interesting feature of the Ki Work application is the ability to create a URL for your offer, which is automatically registered with Google, and can then be posted as an email signature, on blogs or online message boards…again furthering the possibility that individuals looking to hire can see what you have to offer.

Pros

• Amazing potential to establish professional contacts for online work
• Ability to have an in-depth summary of yourself and your abilities; or a short and concise one that gets right to the point.

Cons

• Would be useful to have better a explanation on how to fill out the Ki Offer

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Biotrend Facebook Application

What is the Biotrend Facebook Application?

The Biotrend Facebook Application is a lot of fun. It creates a biotrend based on the day you were born. For those not familiar with biotrends, the idea is that your body and mind go through rhythms throughout your life. That’s why some days you feel great physically and other days you’re tired as a dog. It’s kind of like a horoscope for your life. Most credible scientists discredit biotrends, but they’re still a lot of fun to look at.

In addition to doing biotrends, this the Biotrend App also shows your compatibility with your Facebook friends based on your zodiac sign. This was pretty cool to play around with. I noticed a few glitches though. The app said was the most compatible with some friends while simultaneously being the least compatible with them. It only happened with a few friends. Nothing major.

And to top it off, the Biotrend Facebook app gives you your daily horoscope. This app is your one shop stop for all your mystical needs.

Biotrends Pros

• Instantly creates a biorythem chart based on your birthday. The app does all the work for you. No need to enter in any info.
• The biotrend chart is very nice looking
• See your compatibility with all your Facebook friends based on zodiac signs. This was by far the coolest feature.

Biotrends Cons

• There were a few glitches with some of the matches. I was told I was the most compatible with some friends while simultaneously being told as I was least compatible
• Other than that, this was a real fun and clever app.

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(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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Group Talk Facebook Application

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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(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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Kiwee postCards Facebook Application

What is the Kiwee postCards Facebook Application?

Kiwee postCards Facebook app lets you create and customize postCards to send to your Facebook friends. Creating a post card is a snap with the Kiwee postCards app. You have hundreds of fun and creative cards to choose from. The postcards are organized by categories such as Naughty, Funny, and Flirt. What’s great is that some of the postCards are animations or videos. Pretty cool. After you select the postCard you want to use, you can then customize the text and send it off to your friend.

Kiwee postCards Pros

• Hundreds of postCards to choose from
• Includes animated and video postCards
• Nicely integrated into Facebook
• Extremely simple to use

Kiwee postCards Cons

• Couldn’t find any! This is a simple, yet fun app. Great work!

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(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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The Hookup Facebook Application

What is the Hookup Facebook Application?

The Hookup Facebook app lets you easily make new connections with like minded people on Facebook. After answering a series of short questions on your likes and interests, The Hookup app will then find other Hookup app users that match your profile. Results are listed in the order of closest match to least closest match.

The Hookup app isn’t just for finding love on Facebook. It allows you to find people similar to you for business, bar crawling, shopping, or studying.

I was really impressed this app. It was fun to answer the questions and the results were accurate. In this age where making social connections is the key to success, the Hookup is definitely a useful tool.

The Hookup Pros

• Easily find new connections of people like you.
• Useful for dating, finding a shopping partner, a study partner, or a bar crawling buddy.
• Does an excellent job leveraging Facebook’s social network to bring people together.
• Nicely integrated with Facebook.

The Hookup Cons

• This is a great app! Nothing wrong here.

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(10 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)

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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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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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iCelebrate Facebook Application

What is the iCelebrate Facebook Application?

iCelebrate lets you share festival greetings with your friends and loved ones right from Facebook.When you open the app, you have three types of greetings you can sen people: festival, occasions, and life. Festival greetings are messages designed for holidays like Christmas and New Years. What’s cool about iCelebrate is that they just don’t limit themselves to Western holidays, but also include holidays from several different countries. The occasions categories is for events like weddings or birthdays. As of this writing, iCelebrate does not have any messages designed for occasions. The Life category has messages to celebrate your first job or your first kiss with your Facebook friends.

iCelebrate Pros

• Great way to send holiday greetings
• Variety of holidays to choose from
• Messages designed for other life occasions

iCelebrate Cons

• On the main page, the app doesn’t fit into the frame so you can’t use one half of the app.
• No messages ready for the “Occasions” and “Life” categories.
• If the designers can fix these two mistakes, this will be an awesome app.

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(3 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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