Microsoft and Boondoggle are looking for stars on facebook
Together with Microsoft we launched a Facebook application using the Live Search API. The application looks for results on your full name and defines popular you are online. If you got more than 33 million results like for example Paris Hilton, you'll get a high starfactor. If you're results are a bit more modest, like mine, you'll get a rather low starfactor. Of course some sweet social Facebook juice is poured over the app, so you're able to see the starfactor of your friends. Kris Hoet is at the top of my list with a starfactor of 33% !
So if you want to see how high your starfactor is, simply add the application and see how you score compared to your friends.
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Nice app! Here's a cheesy plug for a facebook app that I built last year. It's called Xtreme Neighbours - you can go on and give your neighbours a rating or see what they've been saying about you. It's nicely integrated with Google Maps ;-) You can find it here: http://apps.facebook.com/xneighbours
Thanks for your commens Campbell,
I tested your app out: cool. It only is a pity just 2 people in Belgium seem to have installed it. :-)
You have a lot of active users?
Jesse
My star factor is 22%!
This is an app designed to keep me humble, I think. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for giving it a go.
I haven't promoted it much since I launched it so active users are few and far between at the moment. I'm currently building a site to work in conjunction with the app called... strangely enough,... www.xtremeneighbours.com. This should be finished within a few weeks and will be used to drive traffic to the FB app and vice versa.
My experience with FB has shown me that the mini feed is the best way to spread apps and the more someone interacts with your app the better it will spread. For example, on my app, as soon as someone adds their neighbour a mini feed is generated and then I get a spike in traffic, but this dies off until someone else adds a neighbour.
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