Mark Movida, Vi Cung, Ka Her, Gleb
Podkolzin
AutoClub is a
Facebook application that is centered on cars. Its target users will range from
car enthusiasts to people with merely some interest in cars. It is aimed to be
the central hub for everything that is related to automobiles on Facebook and
it will connect users that share this common interest. It is intended to be an
application that is informative, useful, easy to use, and fun. Users of the
application will be able to:
Demo videos: Add event, review car, browse
car, car profile, attend event, search
car
Aleskey Sherman, Danielle Cassley, Jennifer
Kelly, Yuly Tenorio
Best Eats is a
Facebook application cataloging restaurants along with their reviews. The
application will give users the ability to share their opinions on restaurants
as well as see the opinions of others. By using the Facebook platform, this
application can leverage the social context of people you trust to increase the
reliability of restaurant reviews.
Matt Finifter,
Jonathan Hung, Stephen Kekicheff, Jennifer L. Tran
Blurbs is an
application dedicated to allowing Facebook users to seek additional information
and to provide elaboration on material that is posted on any visible profile.
When a Facebook user peruses the profile of a friend or another Facebook
member, who is not yet a friend, the user may encounter a topic of interest
that is listed within that person’s profile. He or she may like an elaboration
as to what the topic entails and how it relates to this person. Currently,
Facebook only offers the option of messaging and wall posts for one user to
request this information from another. As for providing a medium for
expression, users are limited to elaborate on interests either directly within
their profile or through a note. Blurbs will provide a system specifically
designed to enable the curious user to request information from another
Facebook user. The user receiving this request may or may not decide to provide
an elaboration on the subject of the request. Blurbs will also make it possible
for a user, who is already familiar with the topic, to elaborate on that topic,
even though it may originally appear on the profile of another Facebook member.
Keny Fan, Nikita Schvachko, Sami Eljabali,
Simant Goyal
Our project focuses on
promoting the continued usage of the Facebook platform. Our application allows
users to design a personalized Comic Avatar in their profile. This Avatar will
be composed of a head, body, and tail at the user’s discretion and it will grow
accordingly based on the user’s involvement with their own profiles. As each
user writes/receives wall posts/messages, adds photos, or gets tagged in
photos, our application keeps track of these updates and converts it into a
form of “experience” for the Avatar. Greater experience means greater growth
for the Avatar and greater rewards for the user. When the Avatars are strong
enough, they would be able to battle other Avatars, too. The aim of our
application is to make the Avatar an indicator of how active a user is on
Facebook.
Crystal Chang, Mindy Lue, Jacy Li,
Jacqueline Takeshita
The DrawIt application
brings the ever popular Pictionary game to Facebook, but without the time
constraint. As with other game applications, DrawIt brings together a wide
variety of people on a common ground. Artists can put as much or as little
effort as they’d like into their work, and other users have the opportunity to
take a guess at what the prompt word was. DrawIt provides a way for users to
compete with each other while showing off their artistic skills.
Suming Chen, John Hwang, Damandip Sanghera
Our application
is designed to create new ways of saying “Happy Birthday” to someone over
Facebook. With the advent of the Web 2.0 era and numerous social networking
websites, it seems likely that every internet user will have many acquaintances
to wish “Happy Birthday” to online. Currently, most Facebook users will just
leave a comment on their friend’s wall to communicate their well wishes. Most
of the comments are trivial, near worthless comments like “Happy Birthday
{Friend’s Name}.” The current messaging system does not allow a group of people
to give a greeting to one person. Also, the current system does not allow for
any personalization of the message in terms of visual and creative expression.
The inability to tie in social networking with a birthday greeting is the main
reason for the development of this project. Our proposal is to create an
application where the user can gather a group of friends and collaborate on a
birthday card. There will be many options dealing with customization of the
greeting card. We will enable users to insert pictures, text, and movies into
their greeting cards.
John Golding, Jakub Fiedorowicz, Samuel
Zats
Our application is
designed to revolutionize facebook through the integration of academic and
professional connections. The application will not only facilitate the
full-time career job hunt but also provide a resource for both internship and
research positions. Currently, the process can often be long, tedious, and for
many, overwhelming. There are multiple methods to accomplish the task but none
provide a single consolidated resource which caters to both the user and
employer within an easy-to-use solution. The user will be able to post their
resume, post a professional profile, and even allow their original profile
information to be shown. Privacy settings will be key in order to satisfy and
guarantee safety for the user. Employers and recruiters will be able to similarly
create both job profiles and company profiles. On either the employee profile
or the company profile, there will be room for discussion threads as well.
Dual-sided searching for positions or interested job-seekers will access
profile information to match the user’s personal interest and the specification
of the positions available.
Chris Alvarado-Dryden, Levi Chang, Matthew
Davis, Jenny Li
There are many
forms of communication in use by people, Facebook being only one. Users need to
simplify communication between friends so they can more easily communicate and
socialize. A way to make this work is to have a central hub for people to go to
communicate in all forms including phone, e-mail, and other methods: Facebook
can be this central hub. Users can keep their contact information private while
still letting their friends contact them. As a side benefit, if friends are in
a situation where they are difficult to contact and the friend doesn’t remember
your contact information (maybe they lost their phone can’t remember your phone
number or email, etc.), communication will be much easier.
Nam Nguyen, Jeremy Tzeng, Sherry Hung, Alex Trofimov
Size Me Up is a
rating application that allows users to rate others and be rated in certain
predefined categories such as attractiveness, reliability, intelligence, or
sense of humor. In addition, users will also be able to add their own
categories that they want to be rated on up to ten categories per user. All
ratings will be made anonymous or the user may choose to disclose their
identity. All Facebook users can rate their friends who have the application
added to their profile without adding Size Me Up to their own profile. In the
user’s profile, there will be a profile box displaying a chart of some sort
based on the user’s rating in his or her categories. Additionally, there will
be rankings of the top ranked users in different networks or amongst one’s
friends. There will also be privacy controls that a user can use to opt in or
out of the global ranking system. If a user is the most attractive, reliable,
etc. person within their network or group of friends, a badge on the profile
box will be given to display this honor.
Fan li, Abhishek Asthana, Dylan Caldwell,
Nick Mulrean
People
like to categorize things, but there's no way to categorize your friends and
interact with them in groups. This
application will allow users to tag your friends and group them based on
common attributes, such as "football fanatic." It will also create ways
for users to interact with their groups, ie. send a message to all
"football fanatics" and “coffee addicts” to invite the right set of
friends to celebrate a football victory at the local Starbucks.
Lahini
Arunachalam, Nan Yu, Fred Kang, Eric Peng
Traveling is a
social experience that involves collaboration in planning before the trip takes
place as well as sharing experiences after the trip has occurred. The
application we are building for facebook addresses both of these areas, and
users will ideally use it for both day-trips as well as long-term trips. Users
have the ability to create trips using a standard “create trip” page that will
have features to invite friends as well as gauge each person’s interest in
taking the trip. Once people have been invited, the person creating the trip as
well as the invitees will be able to create and collaboratively edit
itineraries (including travel plans, where to go once reaching the destination,
etc.) and people not going on the trip (or whomever the creator gave permission
to view the event) will be able to make comments on these plans. Once the trip
has taken place, users can add photos to the trip album and create blog-like
posts grouped by destination. Photos can be linked to blog entries and vice
versa. Viewers of the trip will be able to make comments on these shared
details as well. The main premise behind our application will be collaborative
planning and sharing in an open forum.
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