Last week I rolled up the sleeves, dusted off the old PHP memories, and got a little down and dirty to take a swing at a new site called AppRate.com. While watching people like Scoble, Mario Sundar, and Dave McClure add and remove about 40 applications per day (just kidding guys) on Facebook, I was getting curiouser and curiouser as to which were the “good” applications, versus the bad and the ugly. But Facebook’s “review” system is really just a meaningless comments board.
So I decided to build my own, and distribute the power back to the community. On our side, we add the applications to the site, throw in a screenshot, a little blurb, a link, and our rating. The rest is up to you. Voting is totally open with no registration needed – I’m hoping that empowering the community will overwhelm anyone’s urges to game the system. The site automatically calculates the top scoring and most voted-on items. In addition, anyone can easily add comments, although first-comments need moderation due to the power of the spambot world.
I’ve also taken a few extra moments to write a Facebook App that shows the Top 10 from AppRate. It’s not quite as versatile right now, I think it needs to link directly to the applications instead of the reviews, but that’s all I’ve figured out so far. Would love some feedback on this one, I’ve forgotten how much fun tinkering is.
This one’s an excellent application…news and monetization…http://apps.facebook.com/thenewsroom
Hi Jeremy,
Your app reviews are helpful to people. We hold views that there are not many serious applications in Facebook which are of some utility to people.
Just wanted to highlight that we have launched an Ecommerce application on facebook, and we believe in growing this into a serious utility app.
Do have a look at the application in your spare time, and any suggestions/reviews / improvement hightlights are welcome.
http://apps.facebook.com/simpleicom
We are readying our application for an integration with Bebo, currently.
Just to give an overview, we have introduced some new concepts wherein users can post to select groups / networks only. Features are also provided for bargaining between 2 friends, apart from the usual auction type sales. There is a main Global Market through which posts can reach out to users in other Social Networks.
Thanks,
Santosh