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“Vancouver’s Biggest Facebook App” (According To…)

Published by
Megan Cole
December 5, 2007 in Adonomics, Application, Are You Normal?, Facebook, Hockey Pool, Statistics and Vancouver. 3 Comments

Adonomics
…US!
No, not quite. We’re not *that* cheeky. But there are some cold, hard facts that do make the Kinzin Team take notice and feel pretty swell about all that’s evolved with our Facebook app, “Are You Normal?”.

Paul Prescod, Kinzin’s DAD, uses this neat Facebook analytics and advertising platform, Adonomics: it’s OPEN and FREE, and quite fun to play with, if you’re into Facebook analysis. And really, who isn’t? Adonomics gives you statistics on your daily active users, gains and losses, measured in days, weeks and months and displays your Facebook ranking overall.

So we thought we’d take a look and compare our app with the likes of another Vancouver success story, this city’s most successful app to date, Hockey Pool. (Go Canucks.) Hockey Pool grabbed a pretty substantial audience right off the bat (kudos to Ben - it’s a great application!) The unfortunate reality for this application is that it’s seasonal, and as Paul pointed out to me, it helps that our app is, well, not . :)

According to the chart, we’re beating Hockey Pool (gasp!) in two out of three metrics and could be closing in on the third… Thanks to Adonomics, we can officially state with zero discrepancy that “Are You Normal?” is Vancouver’s biggest Facebook app for installs. Hey Ben: Maybe we should have a go at a Hockey Normalcy app….

More mainstream media attention for “Are You Normal?”

Published by
Michael (23%) Fergusson
November 2, 2007 in 24 Hours Newspaper, About Kinzin, Application, Are You Normal?, Community, Facebook, Kinzin, Media, Social Networks, Statistics, Vancouver and Writers. 0 Comments

Whew. What a week!

Last week, 24 Hours Newspaper published a story about Kinzin’s Facebook plugin Are You Normal? in their print and online magazine (photo on the left, by Rob Kruyt, that accompanied the article). In the article, I’m quoted as saying that we’ve reached 90,000 people around the world. Thanks to the power of the network effect, as of this writing we’ve already passed 245,000 (from 184 countries!) and still going strong.

The point of this post is not to toot our own horn (at least, not only to do that :-), but to mention for your interest that the next set of survey questions we publish will be written in part by our user base. We’ve had questions submitted from Finland, Spain, Greece, Australia, and the UK so far. I’m very excited about this in particular. As with many things, when we’re talking about what’s “normal”, what we choose to measure is often as interesting as the results.

I’ll keep you posted as things progress…

“How I got that shot”: Are You Normal? edition

Published by
paulprescod
October 19, 2007 in Are You Normal? and Statistics. 1 Comment

At the top of “Are You Normal?” is a counter of everyone who has installed the app and done a survey. It is very satisfying for our team to watch it count up like the old McDonald’s signs.

Before I went to bed it was at 49,223: tantalizing close to the nice, round 50,000. I thought it would be nice to get a screenshot of it for the team.

Unfortunately, it was not climbing so quickly that I could justify staying up to watch it. I have to admit that I had been thinking about ways that I could cheat a bit to get a shot of the magic number in the morning. I wouldn’t cheat to push the number forward for a screenshot but pushing it backwards is in that ethically gray area that also includes income tax creativity and lying to telemarketers. I went to bed reluctantly.

Sometime between midnight and 1:30 AM I actually had a dream that I had seen the number and gotten a realtime, honest-to-goodness-screen shot of it. Yes, my dreams are that boring.

Around 1:30, my 2 year old daughter woke me up. I guess she was not dreaming about “Are You Normal?” because her dream was bad. After rocking her back to sleep, I really wanted to check my computer. I couldn’t believe my eyes: 49,998. A few refreshes later it was 50,000. (well, strictly speaking I had to turn off the performance optimization that makes the counter jump once an hour instead of incrementing in real-time)

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The 50,000th survey user seems to be (according to his public profile) a gentleman from Wales. God bless the Welsh.

There are a few ironies here.

First, I went to bed “early” (midnight) rather than spend all night waiting for 50,000 to arrive. Instead, I stayed up for hours writing blog posts, Kinzin stories and emails about our milestone.

Second, Noella’s nightmare lead to the realization of my dream.

Third, I have no proof that I didn’t cheat to get the shot or doctor it somehow. A person demented enough to dream about it might not be above hacking it up in photoshop.

Finally, by the time this goes through the editorial and notification process, “Are You Normal?” will already be on to a brand new milestone. As you read this, maybe we are at 55,000, 60,000, or 100,000. If you’re a Facebook user you can find out easily.

Are You Normal? One Of The Fastest Growing Facebook Applications

Published by
Megan Cole
October 15, 2007 in About Kinzin, Are You Normal?, Blog, Design, Facebook, Kinzin, Social Networks, Statistics and The Kinzin Blog. 0 Comments

As of this morning, just shy of 2 weeks officially included on the Facebook application map, “Are You Normal?” has added over 25,000 users, making it one of the fastest growing apps on Facebook. That’s an average of 6 users per minute, or roughly one new user every 10 seconds. This morning it hit page one for “recently popular”. We’re pretty pleased, to say the least, as there are over 5,000 applications out there. It was a big moment when we pulled ahead of “Pee on your friends”, and now we just keep moving up! “Are You Normal?” falls under the just-for-fun category of extremely memorable and meaningful ways to waste time in Facebook!

And we’ve introduced a fresh, new design, making it easier for you to move around the app and see your test results and those of your friends. Something else of importance we would like share with you: every week we will be adding a new quiz to test your normalcy. Up this week: “Are you a normal Facebook user?”. (Is anyone?)

Show us your abs, by Trois Tetes (TT)'s on FlickrAs always, we’d like to hear feedback from our users and the community at large. Feel free to leave us a note or post in our Kinzin Builders group and we’d be happy to help you out or answer your questions and suggestions.

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