Map Motive Mashes All Your Facebook Friends On A Google Map
From the thin files of the Decently Useful Facebook Apps Dept.: MapMotive puts your Facebook friends on a Google Map, making it easy to visit acquaintances while travelling, or just marvel at your social spread.
It’s more than just a series of red pins on a worldwide map, though. You can quickly locate friends by name with the “Friend Finder” list, add markers to the map to find the best in-between meet-up spots, and see a thumbnail profile of each friend on the map with their latest status update and other vitals. It could come in handy next time you’re in need of a couch to crash on, or help you kill a few minutes exploring the places and faces of your social network. Free to use, just like the MapMotive.com map-making site it comes from.
Mapmotive.com Facebook Application [via See Location of all your Facebook Friends on a Google MapDigital Inspiration]
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i think this is just about the coolest idea evar!
I love it, unfortunately it is still rather buggy.
gpzbc
In a similar vein is Friends on Fire, a Facebook app for Yahoo's awesome Fire Eagle to share your REALTIME location (smart privacy features) with your friends.
Sounds great. But does not work for me somehow. Its been "Loading friends data" for about 20 mins now. :(
Sweet!...
Note to self: get some friends.
l337_7r4d3r
Very useful application.
@Stefan Ernst
No, its working in India.
doesn't work. all reviews say the same thing.
maybe this only works for US citizens.
Stefan Ernst
the internet just got a bit more stalkerish
Ankit Bhardwaj
Doesn't seem to work with Firefox...
Aeroracere
It does not work on Facebook,
I just installed the app but it does not work and going by all the other reviews on the application page it does not work for anyone.
Sounds good but the Facebook app does not work.
Bob_UK
hey this is really cool
Jason Gray
Woo! Rochester!
OmniZero
Anyone else having problems getting the application frame to display in Facebook?
BrianaEleazar
No love for the Canadians eh?
AdamSnow
Yeah i'm glad to see it's not working for anyone here either. I read the reviews and comments before installing it (afraid of spyware stuff on facebook).
So it bothers me that Sugar would endorse and write-up an application without even bothering to test it.
I wrote a facebook app that groups your friends by city, state, or country:
[apps.facebook.com]
It does not display them on a map, but it does not require them to have the application installed either.
However it does not count friends who have their location set to private from the API (so it may skip 1/4th of your friends or so).
Let me know what you think.
jordan314
@Bob_UK:
Note all the reviews appear to be from today, 5/7, so I would wonder whether the Facebook app were suffering from the Lifehacker effect.
This app only works if your friends have it too, which makes sense.
I can't get it to work - it freezes up.
kerpalguy
YEAH...cos i want to show people where my house is....
mkr10001
@jordan314: That's nice! That's the only non-default apps that I have installed, and will keep. Very handy.
About half of my friends apparently are set to private. But regardless, great work.
The app should look better now, I reconfigured it so it survives the tidal wave. I quickly hit the maximum number of geocoding request allowed daily by Google (15K) - I use another setup now that should work better.
Nice to hear it did work for some, I hpe the others will come back for a second chance.
Thanks for the comments, good or bad, really.
Just funny how things surface after a 2 month sleep.
Thanks. The maker of Mapmotive.com and the Mapmotive Facebook App.
Jonathan Dunn
Wait, my friends have to have it installed for it to work?
FAIL!
It doesn't seem to working on my account using Firefox either. Is it Firefox, the app, or server overload?
djlurch
Here's related one that prints out interesting statistics and maps about your friends'locations:
[apps.facebook.com]
Harry Ramsden
I wish someone would make this for Outlook, or Thunder Bird, or BlackBerry, I want to map my contacts! side note, the site wont let me facebook connect today :(
MarlandEurylochus
Works for me, well, works now that I reconfigured the app to survive a traffic tidal wave :) No guaranty, but it should be better now, talk about a stress test today... The maker of Mapmotive.
ShevantiMadden
Sounds cool. I wish I could it to work.
kellys4545
facebook + firefox or opera + UK = crashed both browsers!
MartinaCycnus