the process when the sender gets to slingshot the package to their friend -- who then has to download the application to open the package on their end.
7) Countdown -- The concept here is simple -- this application lets you set a date, and countdown to an event with a ticker that runs on a user’s profile. Since everyone is looking forward to something, this app has endless utility.
8) Who Has The Biggest Brain? -- Part game, part IQ test, this application is hugely addictive. Besides having a great name, the application tests users in four different categories -- analysis, calculation, memory and visual processing. At the end of the test, users are given a ranking. They are then compared to their friends who took the test, as well as the rest of the world and their hometown. This application continues to spread as people compete against their friends (and their own personal-best scores) to get a better ranking.
9) Where I’ve Been -- This is another travel-related application, but instead of being a game, it allows users to plot on a world map the places they’ve visited, lived and want to go. After filling out their personal profile, users can share/compare maps with their friends. The more places a person’s been, the more addictive this application becomes -- and the more that the creators of the app will reach their target audience. (Smart!)
10) Pixton Comics -- This may be the best "Facebook application" that isn’t really a Facebook application. Although you can reach the service through Facebook, users actually have to access the app on the Pixton Comics’ site. Once through the registration hoopla, users can create comics without having to draw -- either by choosing from templates that are available on the site, or by building their own comic from scratch. Once built, the comic can be embedded in any site -- including Facebook.
Melissa Chang is the founder of Pure Incubation, an Internet incubator based in the Boston area. She also has a blog about startups at 16th Letter.
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Hey Melissa! Thanks for picking our game as part of your list. You can chat about strategy and compare scores with other Traveler IQ addicts in our travel forums
Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager
Great list, Melissa. For the Traveler IQ Challenge, try to play it on large screen with a mouse ... laptop screens and pointing devices are not precise enough, especially at the higher levels.
Ian Lamont
Managing Editor
The Industry Standard
i want to be in the list
http://www.facesaerch.com/update/
It's like an Iphone met Facebook and they began to twi****!
any chance?
I'm looking for an application like the travel app. that will allow you to post where all your facebook friends are from.. This will encourage others to add and reach out all over the world... any thoughts on that? Maybe the travel iq team might want to build something.
Good work Melissa. Can you add News Flash application to this list.
http://apps.facebook.com/newmsp
Here's the News Flash "about page":
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=20915663760
Thanks
Here's the correct url: http://apps.facebook.com/newsmap
Thanks
it's kinda goofy but i found a pretty cool facebook app that's on the what happens in vegas movie (the rom-com with kutcher and diaz) promotional page. it's a "most likely to..." type of highschool yearbook thing where you nominate your facebook friends. there's some wacky options and it's well thought out. check it out....
http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=24680196617
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