The Facebook Journal

The biggest Heart Game on Facebook!!! More than 2000 amazing hearts!

Give your friends some love, share hearts with them and get points !

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Hello readers!

First, please allow me to introduce myself, I’m Mostafa Berg, and I build some facebook apps, and still hacking around the iPhone world (Getting a game ready soon)

I wanted to share one of my hit apps game here, “Scratch & Win!”, It’s basically a scratch card game, where you scratch 3 free daily cards and win virtual prizes !. Read more…

The Facebook gifting craze is upon us. Do you receive random gifts from people you do not even know? Are you guilty of sending a snowball, starting a pillow fight, a Christmas decoration, a mixed drink or anything else to your entire friends list? Gift giving is going full throttle on Facebook. Why just say Hello to someone when you can say Hello with an item as well.

Now with our easy to use Gift Giving script you can create your own gift application. You control what gifts are available.

Version GiftApp3.6

Demos:
Jones Soda – http://apps.facebook.com/jonessoda/
All Holidays – http://apps.facebook.com/allholidays/

What’s New in Version 3.6:
- Upload feature for adding gifts. Simply browse and select the gift image and it uploads automatically.
- Help and Ticket system added so users can support a Help request and you can manage all tickets as an admin.
- Multi-Admin. Ability to have multiple admins if you wanted to have friends or partners help manage and add gifts, etc.

What’s New in Version 3.5:
- Categories! Create your own categories and allow users to select categories
from the send gifts tab.
- Admin ability to add points to a user.
- Leaderboard to show top senders and receivers.
- Send tab shows how many times a gift has been sent.
- Ability to add a link to each product that open up another webpage. Great to promote affiliate links or send traffic to a product page.
- Monetize with the program(s) of your choice: OfferPal, SuperRewards, or CPALead.Admin features:
- Only admin can add gifts
- Manage the cost to send each gift
- Add points to a user account
- Create categories for gifts
- Manage support tickets

Fully customizable. You do not have to be stuck with the same gifts. Simply delete the gifts and replace them with something new. Easy to do!

User Features:
- Users of your application can collect gifts. Even if you delete gifts to replace them with a different occassion, a record of sent gifts is still kept and users can view all gifts that they received by clicking the My Gifts tab.
- When a user selects a gift to send the script calculates the cost of the gift and the users point balance and allows the user to send the max amount of gifts at one time to save time.
- Leaderboard to show top senders and receivers. Creates competition between users to get on the top by using your application more.

Self Advertises:
- Viral marketing, advertising
- When a user sends a gift they will be prompted if they want to publish to their wall for others to see that they sent XYZ gift and to who from your app.
- When someone receives a gift sent from your app they too are prompted to publish to their wall advertising what was received, from who, and your app.

Has potential to explode and go viral!

Advertise your business!

Do you have a website you sell products from? How about a brick and mortar store front? Facebook has a huge audience and you can advertise your products by creating a gift application!

Place banners for your business throughout the application, name the application after your business AND make the gifts items you sell!

Your an Italian restaurant? Place items off of your menu as gifts. You sell antique toys online? Place antique toys as gifts. Just about any business can advertise their products using a gift app. Build up hype and get people interested in your business. After receiving a mouth watering pizza or an old toy you remember from your childhood people will look further into the business being advertised.

Affordable advertising! One time fee to buy the software and unlimited exposure.

Affiliates!

If you do not have a business, then promote someone elses! Ever hear of Harry & David pears? They are the world’s best tasting pears! Join as an affiliate of a well known product and create a gift application around their products. Placing your affiliate links and banners throughout the application.

Make money from your application!

Sending gifts costs credits. Users receive credits for free for logging into the app each day and by accepting gifts that are sent to them.

Should a user want to send gifts beyond the amount their credits allow them, then they can buy credits directly or take part in free offers such as singing up for other apps, shopping, surveys and more. This is provided by CPALead, Super Rewards OR OfferPal. Both will pay you for any actions your members do to get points.

Besides integrating with Super Rewards or OfferPal banner ads can easily be placed at the top of every page of the application. Rockyou Ads is a great company that shows Facebook related banner ads. You can even integrate with Google Adsense.

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Remember that time when you dropped your phone in the pool? Or when you lost it?
You were probably itching to send a text.
Or maybe you don’t have a phone or don’t have an unlimited texting plan.
Perhaps you’re an adult who hates typing on those tiny phone keyboards or just find it too complicated.

Click a Text (http://clickatext.com is our main site) fixes all of that by providing free and unlimited online text messaging. Our site and Facebook application let you type texts on the fly and send them with just the click of your finger.

By adding our application (http://apps.facebook.com/clickatext) or visiting our site, you can instantly send text messages directly to your friends from your computer. By registering (or submitting some info in the Facebook app), you also gain access to an address book to make texting easier than you thought possible.

While our main site incorporates extra features such as 2-way texting (no phone needed!), MMS (multimedia) messaging, and a sent text message logs, we plan to integrate these into our Facebook application very soon to provide all users exceptional functionality.

Add our app and experience blazing fast texting at http://apps.facebook.com/clickatext.

View our videos to learn how to send a text with our main website.

Think your the fastest typer on Facebook? Try us. Typer Challenge is possibly the first typing game on Facebook to have power-ups, you can use them to give you more time, and more, each power-up lasts 3 games.

Try it out click here

You could be the next typing champion!

Create a Gift App using our automated tool,  Gift Artist – http://apps.facebook.com/giftartist/ and we split 50-50 on the ad revenues generated from the ad banners displayed on your app.

We are the only FB app that gives you 50-50 revenue share and the transparency.  You will see the number of ad impressions your apps have generated and how much you have made. Payment is done weekly via PayPal.  If your gift app is promising, we will also spend money and time promoting your gift app.  Create a gift app now and Rock On! No programming needed.

LifeLine, tell your life in a line.

A life is made of events. Small or big they rhythm our existence.

Your first kiss, your hard earned diploma, this great holiday in France… With lifeLine, put all these significant events in a graph and show it to your friends. And catch up with those you haven’t heard of in a while!

From there you can invite friends to your life time events, add yourself to your friends’ or send them e-presents on their special occasions.

Features coming up soon: a quiz generator, a friend life line comparator and affinity checker to find out who you should make friend with from your friends networks.

Application available at http://apps.facebook.com/life_line/index.php

A basic video:

A better one is coming soon.

Happy lifeLining!

Facebook Journal is giving you the opportunity to write about your own Facebook app/game!
You can post a review of your new app or game, write about recent updates or improvements. To do so, create an account on The Facebook Journal here, log in and start posting! Your posts will be reviewed by our team and should be live in about 1 business day.

You can even include one Google AdSense ad at the bottom of your post!

So what are you waiting for? Write your posts, increase traffic to your apps/games, spread the word and start earning money on The Facebook Journal today!

For more info and tips on how to write, click here.

Facebook announced about their new Privacy Settings earlier today. Facebook says that the changes are made to simplify the Facebook privacy settings and give users more control,  but according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation these changes are made to push users to publicly share even more information than before.

For app developers these changes will be very useful. Users won’t be able to hide information such as gender and friend lists (and other Publicly Available Information – PAI) from apps, they can’t opt out of the Facebook API (by the “Do not share any information about me” setting) anymore and even if a user hasn’t granted permission to any apps the PAI of the user will still be available through the friends of the user who use the application.

According to Chris Cox (VP, Product Management) “everyone” will be the new default for status updates, which will make Facebook more like Twitter and give greater access to information for developers. This means if Facebook allowed Google to pull user status updates for its new real-time search,  Facebook could have replaced and even eliminated Twitter.

Below is a video demonstrating these new changes.

Are you a developer on Facebook? Have you created the most amazing Facebook Application or game but nobody knows about it yet?
Ask us to review your app today!

In the submission page, make sure you describe your application and tell us why do you think it has the potential to become the next killer app on Facebook. Describe all of its features in detail and most importantly include the link!

Good luck!