MapEvents on FACEBOOKThe Facebook Application Review of today will be about the recently released app called MapEvents. As most of you might guess this Facebook enables you to search and find people and events around you and globally.
Basically this Facebook application let's you share and find interesting events around the globe by using Google maps and it could be described an hybrid between a Social Network (you and your friends submitting events on the map) and an Event Calendar (date & place).
When you install this Facebook application the first thing you will get to see is a very useful tour explaining the basic functions of the app, and once you are done you will be prompted to submit, if you want, your home address to get some initial credits(that still I don't understand what can I do with them).
After you are done is all about adding a new event. To do that you must press the add event link on the header and write the details of the event that you want to pin on the map and that's it.
The idea of this Facebook Application has a lot of potential and it's approach in my opinion is good and I would really like to see some integration with iPhone maybe and use this social layer to the already existent geo location apps such as Facebook places, Gowalla or Foursquare.
One thing that I do think that they must improve is the UI. Somehow the whole thing looks too crowded without enough space to breath, and in the quest to offer more options, features I feel lost in some cases without knowing where to go.
Bottom line is a great idea, with lot's of potential depending on how far they push this app to make it popular enough to have the map full of events.
My qualification for this Facebook Review is 4.2 out of 5, I believe in this kind of applications, but to succeed they will have to learn from the big players who understand that simplicity is Bliss and they should seek for that.
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