The Facebook Application Review of today is about the App developed by Richard DiBona called New York Times Advanced Archive. This amazing Facebook app is one of a kind and as far as I know the first one to use the recently released API from the New York Times database.

This Facebook Application allows users to browse and search the full New York Times article archive back to 1981, drilling down on search results by topic, people mentioned, geographical places, organizations mentioned, or type of article.

Also besides the past articles browsing feature, you can see in real time news as soon as they are published in The New York Times (like a Newswire), so it's not only about what happened in the past but also what is happening right now... and everything in this very well thought Facebook Application.

Honestly I was very impress when I came into this Facebook Application not only because of the fast access to news from some long years ago but also because among all the Reviews made in this Facebook Blog I never came to an Application that really makes use of the potential provided by an API of this kind.

Overall this Facebook Application as you will be able to read in it's description is a great Facebook pastime and my qualification for this Facebook Review is a solid 5 out of 5, Richard DiBona did a great Job and also through this application really contributed to the quality of content offer to the Facebook community.

The Facebook Application Review of today is called Quizr, the Social Image Quiz.

This Facebook Application is an Image Quiz type app, where you will see a picture and you will have to answer what are you looking at. The interesting thing about this Facebook Application is that they develop it with an interesting twist, because what separates this one from other standard quiz Applications is that you will compete in real time with other users on Facebook to be the first to guess an Image quiz.

One extra feature of this Facebook Application is that you can also confine your quiz to one of your Facebook groups- or maybe create a group just for that purpose.

The categories, have been well thought and some of the quizzes are very hard which makes the application more interesting. For example this one...


If I could suggest some extra things that would be more quizzes (which is just a matter of time because users can create their own Quizzes), and maybe some background Images so as achieve the look and feel that makes application not look like an only text app.

The qualification for this Facebook Review is 4 out of 5, good twist to make something standard in Facebook a little bit more interesting and engaging.

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