Best West Index - Top Facebook Applications (Open Web Edition) - And the Winner is…

Welcome to the Open Web Edition of the “Best of the West Top Facebook Application Index” compiled to highlight the most popular social web services designed or developed in Canada’s West (including in and around the Greater Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, etcetera metros).

The index uses the Facebook data tracked by the Adonomics service and includes the Adonomics estimate of the Facebook application valuation in $$$.

Consider the list in “Beta” since we accept more and new apps getting listed. We have compiled the index using all apps from the last two Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage events. Interested in getting listed? Add a comment to this posting or better add yourself to the SocialCamp event wiki to showcase your Facebook service live at App Nite hosted at the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference at Canada Place on Day 2 on April 15th.

Rank	App	Installs	Active Users/Day	Valuation($$$)
1.	Scratch and Win	449,900	71,984 (16%)	$408,363
2.	Hockey Pool	347,793	48,691 (14%)	$247,020
3.	Are You Normal?	572,300	5,723 (1%)	$95,077
4.	I’m Reading	61,400	614 (1%)	$17,888
5.	Friend of the Month	31,825	1,273 (4%)	$13,844
6.	Hockey Pool Pro	20,300	203 (1%)	$4,937
7.	The Snow Report	18,200	182 (1%)	$6,020
8.	Eat-A-Rama	17,800	30 (0%)	$265
9.	Green Gifts	7,400	74 (1%)	$403
10.	These Are My Kids	4,200	126 (3%)	$815
11.	Up4	4,700	10 (0%)	$70
12.	10 Friends Notes	3,773	415 (11%)	$1,805
13.	MyBus	2,300	23 (1%)	$144
14.	Vibrator	1,700	5 (0%)	$80
15.	Mixx Maker	1,000	20 (2%)	$130

These Are My Kids - Facebook Q&A with Michael Fergusson and Paul Prescod (Kinzin)

Welcome back to the Facebook Demo Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Michael Fergusson and Paul Prescod talking about “These Are My Kids” - the 2nd and latest Facebook application from Kinzin following the “Are You Normal?” hit that celebrated 1,000,000 Facebookers served sometime last year.

Viewers never need to sign up for anything, but if they are already Facebook users, they can take advantage of Facebook’s existing infrastructure of invitations and notifications.

You need to have a lot of extra capacity available because the traffic can come in waves depending on how you are ranked in the application directory. The safest way to be ready for extra capacity is to use load balancing, memcached and carefully selected database indexes.

Best West Index - Top Facebook Applications - December 2007 (Release 1.0)

Welcome to the 1.0 release of the “Best of the West Top Facebook Application Index” compiled to highlight the most popular social web services designed or developed in Canada’s West (including in and around the Greater Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, etcetera metros).

The index uses the Facebook data tracked by the Adonomics service and includes the Adonomics estimate of the Facebook application valuation in $$$.

Rank	App	Installs	Active Users/Day	Valuation($$$)
1.	Are You Normal?	788,467	23,654 (3%)	$318,917
2.	Hockey Pool	364,509	43,741 (12%)	$180,840
3.	Scratch and Win	70,970	14,194 (20%)	$43,061
4.	I’m Reading	46,000	920 (2%)	$24,038
5.	Up4	7,375	295 (4%)	$1,662
6.	Green Gifts	4,700	94 (2%)	$1,037
7.	MyBus	1,400	28 (2%)	$429
8.	Funny Jokes	1,300	13 (1%)	$122
9.	Music Gifts	550	11 (2%)	$55
10.	Zoykes!	300	3 (1%)	$54
11.	Coffe Shop	117	7 (6%)	$42
12.	My Food Fix	120	6 (5%)	$27
13.	BC Event	28	3 (11%)	$19

Interested in getting included? Send in your nominations and get included in the next Best West Index update published on January 15, 2008.

Best West Index - Top Facebook Applications - December 2007 (Beta)

Inspired by Megan Cole’s (of Kinzin’s Are You Normal? Team) story about “Facebook Analytics” we’ve compiled the first “Best of the West Top Facebook Application Index”.

The index uses the Facebook data tracked by the Adonomics service and includes the Adonomics estimate of the Facebook application valuation in $$$.