Celebrate the Holidays on Facebook
Posted by Nick O'Neill on November 23rd, 2007 1:22 PMOver the past few days I have been seeing an increasing number of holiday applications show up on Facebook. Given that this is the holiday season I thought it would be worthwhile to post a couple of the holiday applications available to users. One of the best ones I’ve seen so far is the Hanukkah Lights application. As you would imagine, the Hanukkah Lights application provides you with a menorah for your Facebook profile. On each night of Hanukkah, your menorah will automatically be lit at around sundown. If you celebrate Hanukkah, check out the Hanukkah Lights application.
The other holiday application is the Be Santa application. Created by the same people that developed the Lotto application. Be Santa enables you to create your own wish list of presents by writing “letters to santa” as well as give gifts to your friends. Those gifts are then given to your friends on Christmas day. An additional bonus to this application is a giveaway on Christmas day. $2500 of the gifts that have been given by users will be purchased and delivered to the recipients. If you want to Be Santa this Christmas, go grab the Be Santa application.
I wasn’t able to find any Kwanza applications but there were a few Ramadan applications but usage appeared sparse. Given the large base of Muslims on Facebook I see this as an opportunity for application developers. Additionally there is a large Turkish and Muslim base on Facebook that would be a great target for this type of application. Unfortunately I don’t enough about the holiday and don’t have the time to develop an application. If you want to create a popular application, I would suggest trying to develop the Ramadan celebration application.
Are there any holidays that I’m missing? Have you seen any other interesting holiday applications?
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November 23rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I think there is a Christmas Tree app as well, that allows you to create a customized Christmas tree. However, there is a complaint on the message board that says something to the effect that “this app is lame.”
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Hi Nick - I’m working with Max from Wishpot to try and create the “World’s Largest Secret Santa” (http://apps.facebook.com/giftgroups/). We are going to match random people so they can send gifts (virtual or real) to each other. It is very simple, but a fun experiment.
The Secret Santa app also promotes my “Toy Chest” (http://apps.facebook.com/toychest/) app - which is seeing an upsurge in virtual gift sending due to the holidays.
- Adam
December 4th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
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