While not a revolutionary applicatoin, GridView provides users with a pretty cool way of viewing their friends. It is extremely straight forward. Add the application, and watch the application crop each of your friends’ profile picture and place it into a grid. That grid is then displayed on your profile. It is as simple as that. Why am I covering this application? That’s a great question! The only reason I’m covering it is that it is currently one of the most viral applications. Additionally, I like the concept of automatically generating a unique picture of my friends. It would be pretty cool if an application is created that automatically generates a collage of your friends. For now, you will have to stick with a grid. This is a simple application that has the potential to become adopted by a large number of Facebook users. This just goes to show that you don’t need to come up with the most robust application. If you want to have a grid of your friends on your profile, go grab the GridView application.
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Nick -I added this app when it first came out, and while I enjoy it, it takes too long and occupies too much screen real estate when you have 1000 friends!It would be more interesting if let it you choose the number of friends to be shown(100, 500, 1000, etc.), or shows only the top 100 friends you interact with the most frequently. Just showing EVERY single friend with no real meaning seems very one dimensional.
Comment by Brandon — August 2, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Nick -
I added this app when it first came out, and while I enjoy it, it takes too long and occupies too much screen real estate when you have 1000 friends!
It would be more interesting if let it you choose the number of friends to be shown(100, 500, 1000, etc.), or shows only the top 100 friends you interact with the most frequently. Just showing EVERY single friend with no real meaning seems very one dimensional.
Comment by Brandon — August 2, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
The 'Friends Collage' app has the exact same feature and allows you to choose how many friends you want to show on your profile page
Comment by Cosmoblog — August 2, 2007 @ 11:55 pm
The 'Friends Collage' app has the exact same feature and allows you to choose how many friends you want to show on your profile page
Comment by Cosmoblog — August 3, 2007 @ 12:55 am
You can have this view with no apps but not on your profile. On the Friends tab, select "—-".
Comment by John — August 3, 2007 @ 4:52 am
You can have this view with no apps but not on your profile. On the Friends tab, select “—-”.
Comment by John — August 3, 2007 @ 8:52 am
As the developer of the GridView app, I would like to thank you for witting about my app!Brandon, that's a good idea, however defining "interacted most with" is very hard. Even Facebook itself doesn't try that. A random assortment of friends would not work, because GridView has to be manually updated.But thanks for using GridView. Also I'm working on some improvements to GridView to "break the Grid". Stay tuned and thanks for using GridView!
Comment by Michael Plasmeier — August 25, 2007 @ 4:52 am
As the developer of the GridView app, I would like to thank you for witting about my app!
Brandon, that's a good idea, however defining "interacted most with" is very hard. Even Facebook itself doesn't try that. A random assortment of friends would not work, because GridView has to be manually updated.
But thanks for using GridView. Also I'm working on some improvements to GridView to "break the Grid". Stay tuned and thanks for using GridView!
Comment by Michael Plasmeier — August 25, 2007 @ 5:52 am
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