Rate your friends’ status with Status Competition

By Heri Jan 8th 2008 in Design

Facebook is one of those monsters I completely refuse to donate time to. I have joined the network 18 months ago, before everyone was crazy about it, and I have concluded back then that it’s very clever and smart, but ultimately, its designers made everything to make members loose time in the app.

However, it looks like every developer and entrepreneur keeps cranking Facebook applications every day, and the latest I have tried is Status Competition, just launched yesterday by fellow montrealer Jerome Paradis and Kim Vallée. It’s a small application that lets you rate your friends’ status, in a fun way.

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I’ve tried it and it has a lot of viral potential, one of those applications that goes to the point and doesn’t do anything else than “rating” what your friends are doing. Go try it (warning: you could loose lots of time in it)

Thanks to Laurent Maisonnave.

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Jerome Paradis January 08, 2008

Thanks for the kind review Heri!

Count on Montreal Tech Watch to give the news before everyone else. I did not even talk about it on my blog yet!

I am glad you think it goes right to the point because that was the goal. It was developed as an exercise in simplicity for its design. For our first public application, we though of trying something that has viral potential.

I just hope the adoption rate won’t be too fast because I have a few caching optimizations to do before it can scale elegantly!

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At Home with Kim Vallee January 08, 2008

You make my day. Thank you, Heri and Laurent.

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