Review: Web Presence App
What It Does:
The Web Presence app was created by Michael Moore as a way to easily share your websites on your Facebook profile.
The Break Down:
Many of us, including myself, have accounts on several social networking websites, Facebook and Myspace among them, as well as our own web pages and blogs. What this app allows through the simplest steps imaginable is the sharing of these sites via a link box on your Facebook Profile.
After you install the app you are prompted to enter the web address of one of your sites. That is the only step that you have to do but this page also allows the removal websites if you no longer want them to be displayed. I went the simple route and just have to at the moment, this website, and my Flickr site.
This app doesn’t even ask you to invite friends and in fact has no function for doing so. Though that is noble and I can see where the developer would want to avoid that, it would be handy to at least have the option. If we look at the case of my friend Joshua Grosvent (whose link you will find on the right column of this page), a comedian with several sites on the web, it would be nice to recommend this app to him.
Facebook gives you one spot for your homepage. Joshua has of course put in his homepage for that spot, but with this app he could also list, unobtrusively, on his Facebook Profile his Myspace link where he has his songs, his Youtube link where you can see his videos, and his artist page on SuperDeluxe. I guess I will have to suggest the app to him the next time I talk to him in person.
Though the execution is simple and streamlined the app does seem to have a disproportional number of errors. These errors occur when attempting to start the app from the left hand navigation bar. After a few tries you can get past the “timed out” message and into the app to add more sites. The only other problem I see with this nifty little app is that no matter which profile column you put the box in, it does not display the whole address of the website. This is understandble in the shorter left hand column but not in the wider right hand column where there is an extra two inches of blank white space that my address could be filling up.
All in all this app does what it sets out to do well. There are some error snags along the way, but these are not crippling. Nor is the display length of the urls in the profile box. Developer Michael Moore says that there are some updates en route in the next couple of week. He plans to add support for RSS feeds and how those feeds will be displayed on your profile. If you are a person with many websites then I strongly suggest this app. This application can be obtained free of charge from Web Presence.
9/10 Almost there, tiger.
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