OpenSocial App Reviewed : iRead

iRead is a social book discovery application. With iRead you can organize your favorite books in bookshelves, rate and review them. You can browse what other iReaders and friends are reading. iRead learns from your book reading tastes and recommends books you will like and also users who read like you. Add application and join the social book discovery revolution!

iRead is one of the best crafter application i came across. As said its a Social Book Discovey Application so Search - Add - Broadcast is the key feature of it. With a cool/simple UI you really don't have to take pains to learn to use this Application..
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Some cool features of iRead :

Search : iRead search is powered by huge Database of Books. you name it and it will be there. If not then with "Cant find a book, add it" feature you can simply add it. Its that Simple

Explore : One good Social Networking Feature, with explore one can see what our friend Has Read/Reading it/wanna read ..

Fun Stuff : Fun stuff is loaded with sections like Book Quiz, Browse Questions, Browse Quizzes, Add Question, Add Quiz, Leaderboard and mY Quizzes.
As i guess "Never Ending Book Quiz" will be fun.. above it an UGC element like Add Question to "Never Ending Quiz" adds up to the plate. Cant forgot Leaderboard which shows "iReader's" stats.. Just one Question to the Dev team. Why is the Facebook "No profile Image" is showing up here ;)

Issues : Not a Show Stopper tho.. if i log into my facebook account and at the same time i check out my Orkut iRead App on Orkut, i get to see my Facebook App .. surprisingly with all those Facebook Apps Ads. too ;-)

Overall, a must have application on your Profile.

Kuddos iRead Dev Team who are working behind the scene to create such a Easy to use and Sticky Application.

iRead :

Sticky Factor : 4.00
User Interface : 3.5
Viral Factor : 4.00
Personalize Factor : 3.00
Report a Bug Feature : No
Developed by - ugenie.com
Web URL : http://ugenie.com/
Application URL :

DoodleMe - OpenSocial-App - Review

One more .. Smart OpenSocial App.. from iWiddit Team.
Let me just Copy and Paste What iWiddit says about their DoodleMe opensocial Application :

DoodleMe Board creates a drawing board on your webpage, and allows your friends to publish drawings on your profile. DoodleMe Board requires no plugins, and can work in virtually any web browser. You decide who can publish the board, as well as what color the board should be. Now your friends can leave you messages that you can really see! The board itself features 11 colors, different drawing widths, and ample chalk supply, but most importantly, when the drawing is finished, it can be published for all to see! This application will be configured to work with all opensocial containers. Let your friends draw pictures on your web profile! Get the XML: http://www.iwiddit.com/xml/doodleMeBoard_0.5_rel.xml

Screenshots:

Both images below depict DoodleMe Board running in Google's Orkut opensocial container. Using only thier mouse, visitors to your page can draw pictures, or write messages and save them for you and the rest of your visitors to see, but only if you allow them to.

DoodleMe sounds very known and the name itself says what the app is allabout. So franckly .. you really dont need to go ahead and explain what itz for... Right...by this the game is half won.. now what helps the user to make use of it the User Interface and simplicity in it.

I personally liked the way its done. - Clear and Simple. But i guess a bit of more work on UI front would have helped users.. to play around more. I would have simply adapted Paint Brush Layout. The reason behind is People find it easy to see what they have already tried out or Looked at. Even my mom.. knows how to use Paint Brush :) But i say "It Worth Adding this App to your Profile" - Great Job, once again.

DoodleMe Application URL : http://www.iwiddit.com/xml/doodleMeBoard_0.5_rel.xml

Developer : iWiddit

Web URL : http://www.iwiddit.com/apps/doodleMe_board

My Photo Puzzle - by Dustin Jorge / iWiddit.com

My Photo Puzzle is a simple but very personalized/Customizable Puzzle game. The catch here is.. its not our usual Puzzle game where the SKIN is FIXED and we cant customize it.. Its Dynamic so we can plug in our Image path (web only) and with basic setting a cool Puzzle is ready to be played.

Image 1. My Photo Puzzle

Image 2. I like the way we can customize it.(Please click on the Image to View Large Size Image)

On Game Page / Canvas page.. (Image 1) have marked in red.. can you see that..? well that link takes me to the App details page. Hosted on their server which displays Sharing and Views Count. Chk this out.

(Please click on the Image to View Large Size Image)

Now this is something i always thought of doing it. With the App Info Page i can get to see who all installed my app.. check if its doing good or not with help of Sharing and View Countes. Over a very nice app. must say that the Developer really worked hard to get this up in a situation where we are still facing problem accessing Sandbox.

Gadget/App Name : My Photo Puzzle
Gadget/App URL : http://www.iwiddit.com/xml/myPhotoPuzzle.xml
Publisher : Dustin Jorge / iWiddit.com