Birthday Calendar
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As someone who’s notoriously bad at dates, I thought I’d give the Birthday Calendar application a shot.
After installing the application, I was worried that I would need to invite all my friends to use the application in order to derive any usefulness from it. That was not the case! You can simply skip this step and immediately get a calendar view of all your friends birthdays.
Note, it was recently my birthday and gifts are still being accepted.
Clicking on a person’s profile picture opens up a new page which lets you send birthday greeting cards. The catch is, they are not sent on the Facebook platform, but instead link to http://www.birthdays-calendar.com/. These greeting cards are actually sent via the mail, so there’s a fee associated with sending a greeting card.
The other semi-useful feature of the application is to send alerts. Using the Facebook API they can notify you of up to 20 birthdays per day (Limited by the Facebook API). The catch is it forces your friends to add the application in order for you to receive the alerts (the viral component).
Overall, it’s an application I’ll keep installed. The birthday overview calendar provides enough usefulness. I don’t think I’ll fall for their upsell strategy, but they provide quick links to Facebook gift giving options as well.
Installed
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
This app looks like a neat idea, but I don’t have enough people I know using facebook to make it useful for me.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Joel, the application allows you to add non-facebook birhdays. I’ve been able to add a lot of my family members who don’t have FB accounts.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Oh really? I might have to check it out now. That was the one key component that would have prevented me from installing it.
Thanks for the info!