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about app in a day - progress report 1

zvi and I are off to a good start with the conceptualizing of the user experience for our app in a day project, and eric is helping with branding, naming and logos, greg threw out some good ones too, Jay Meattle is serving as our adviser and has kept us on track.

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kicking around ideas, refining thoughts.

the idea is....

friend statistics, a full featured data visualization centric statistics app. with a really nice quiz feature. the quiz questions will be based on your friend consensus data. example "what is the most active wall poster in your network?" which we would then show 5 headshots, and perhaps the text of each's most recent wall post.





we still dont have a name or a branding style, but we do have the high level concept pretty much nailed.

name ideas, we can't have "face" or "book" in the name

friendNfo
401friend
fatstat
followthat
statfat
you me tree
statrap
socialpool
friend 'd
iFollowU
friend.ili.us
friend babbel
stat st.
popl'r
friend.ify
statulus
friendcase
friendbase
statuped
chumster
intimates
statkicks
palstats
chumstats
stattle
tomodachi
mimates
reverbermate
frizz (Friends Quiz)

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ill get back to work, and update you later!

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update

friend compare is looking to be quite interesting, the ability to compare up to 2 other friends with your info and highlight similarities and differences. this would then publish a new feed item that says "jesse just compared himself to zvi band, and leslie bradshaw" which would link to the comparison page. it will show a google map image of the approx location, and even tell you the distance between you and your friend/s

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11 Comments:

Blogger markhawker said...

How about:

chumster
intimates
statkicks
palstats
chumstats
stattle
tomodachi
mimates
reverbermate
frizz (Friends Quiz)

Keep up the good work!

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:06:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous greg said...

Data visualization is the shiz. I vote for anything with Stats in the name. Maybe "facestats" - and I like the fatstat and statfat ones.

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:08:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

facestats if it's facebook specific sounds good.

i think it's also a good idea to track who's viewing your page, friend or not, assuming your page is public.

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:21:00 PM EDT  
Blogger James Colistra said...

Sounds interesting, I would want to know things like who has the most friends total, or the most friends in certain areas or cities. How about Frizzle Statizzle?

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:38:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Brian Breslin said...

this already exists. check out socialistics i think. not as visual as you are talking but lots of graphs and charts.

Monday, August 4, 2008 12:52:00 PM EDT  
Blogger JESS3 said...

yes brian socialistics is a good reference point, they do the cloud and picturewall really well.

it also has lots of errors and doesnt look good.

Monday, August 4, 2008 1:19:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous WWB said...

I vote for tomodachi. Easy to say, educated geek cred.

And if there's a similar app named socialistics, you can win by not being named socialistics.

Monday, August 4, 2008 2:06:00 PM EDT  
Blogger markhawker said...

@wwb

The only problem being, as with most of these "buzzword" names, that in general if users are searching by application name the name doesn't actually describe what the application does [unless they're native to the language ;)]. I kind of realised that as soon as I submitted!

Agree with the socialistics issue, but if you are able to deliver a better executed product then you should be laughing.

Monday, August 4, 2008 2:26:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Nick ONeill said...

Looking good ... amistat (ami meaning friend in french)

statblat
bloopadoop
statattack
statted
neededstat

SocialTimes Stats :)
socialstat

I'm out of ideas ... this was a bad brainstorm on my part :(

Monday, August 4, 2008 3:51:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

friendvaluate

Monday, August 4, 2008 6:26:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Arjun said...

F'ing awesome. So much data there to troll, genius! People love to be competitive about stuff.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT  

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