TechCrunch UK has the details on quite possibly the coolest Facebook application to date: a customizable version of the famous music video of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues (original video embedded below).
You enter in the text that Dylan scrolls through in the video by filling in ten boxes. The video, with your custom text, then appears on your Facebook profile.
What’s even better, it’s all done legally. The creators, techlightenment, won the account to create a Facebook application to celebrate Bob Dylan’s forthcoming single and his recent album for SonyBMG.
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Can’t see. I don’t want to sign up for FACEBOOK & MYSPACE for life.
I got lucky…
Ha ha ha ha ha! Vey nice!
This can be used as a gag gift for my friends.
> What’s even better, it’s all done legally.
Good.
James,
You can try it here:
http://www.dylanmessaging.com/
hopeless. it takes years to load.
Yep its cool al right. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o5AFKbksuO8
love it…
-chrisco
stuck inside a mobile with the memphis blues again
Here’s mine:
http://www.dylanmessaging.com/.....-074O-L738
Don’t laugh, I mean it.
Romantic !!!!
people still listen to dylan and actually care?
Bernie your either 15 or your a knob.
Michael,
you’re half right, the Dylan application is technologically awesome but the coolest one is without any doubt: “Xevster Eyesores”
http://www.facebook.com/apps/a.....45e815ea89
It’s the one with the most beautiful design to date and each eyesore is an small piece of art. It launched two days ago and It’s just taking off.
regards!
Jordi
Despite the fact that Dylan is an amazing artist, I am pretty sure it says something that -this- is the best that Facebook’s platform can offer us. Ha.
Good find.
Definitely a good find. Dylan’s an awful singer but I do enjoy his lyrics from time to time.
http://www.whatshottoday.com
Actually…
We beat Tech Crunch to the punch on this one and this up early Friday. I guess they read our blog.
See the complete review and rating and video of this facebook application here.
http://facereviews.com/2007/09.....n-facebook
Cheers
Rodney Rumford
Editor: http://www.facereviews.com
The advert at the end ruins it.
You don’t have to like Dylan and you don’t have to be a Facebook member to appreciate how cool this is…and this is from a guy that hates “cool” apps that don’t generate any money.
Loved it so much that I created a Dylan video myself (if you hate discussion forum spammer and bashers, you’ll like this) http://tinyurl.com/36vfpe
Regards,
George
Can’t compare to the Bob Roberts version….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2af69xt0VKE
Hmmm….Looks interesting
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
#7, you’re wasting your time…
#17 — Do you really think you can fit all that in one Bob Dylan video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
My favorite so far — updated soundtrack too
Now I’d be shocked if Arrington didn’t have some facebook equity.
Hey “Mark Zuckerberg” you think you could maybe cut the bullshit? Every time you post that nonsense it sets off about four google alerts for me.
also
Isn’t it about time that we put a moratorium on people who haven’t even heard of graph theory saying “social graph”
How to do you block @17 spam?
He keep spamming same messages over and over again. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg wrote that thing. If he did. He totally lose market share and highest paid salary. If this was send to VC. He would lose VC rounds.
I know there are some crazy people hate Mark Zuckerberg.
@17 looks like he wants to throw pie on real Mark Zuckerberg’s face.
I heard Google and Facebook hated each other really bad. Facebook don’t agreed with Google’s Motto.
I was reading holy bible last chapter… When you decipher the code. Facebook is evil. You can’t see it. Facebook were planning to use facebook OCR technology print on people. Facebook people search and communicate each other.
Its sad that this is the “Coolest Facebook app” around.
With honesty all the facebook apps are pathetic and could be made by a high school kid. Where is the innovation for this supposed platform thats called Facebook ?
Why even bother profiling it , all current facebook apps are gimmicks and waste of time
http://atencorps.wordpress.com/
Lame…moving on…
I never liked this band, polka is much hipper, cool, happenin’ and easier to dance to!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
It is a good advertising campaign - very viral, but I don’t think this can be called a cool “application” - what do you think the shelf life of this application is? What after Oct 1?
In due course, this will be copied by other marketers and soon be as cool as the other annoying ecards.
The nice thing is that Sony has given us something that can be used to remind us about why we don’t like them: their history of customer-unfriendliness. Witness the Subterranean DRM Blues…
if this is the best facebook app to date, well.. I think this is proof that the facebook app buzz is a joke.
Showtime used the same technology, if not better, recently to promote their show dexter.
Facebook shmacebook!
If This is the coolest, it doesn’t say much for FB!
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Bob Dylan?! Oh dear. The TechCrunch crew really needs to start doing some BrainReady…
This app is a SonyBMG advertisement.
Not for me thanks you…
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
I heard Google and Facebook hated each other really bad. Facebook don’t agreed with Google’s Motto.
I was reading holy bible last chapter… When you decipher the code. Facebook is evil. You can’t see it. Facebook were planning to use facebook OCR technology print on people. Facebook people search and communicate each other.www.lotro-lotro.com
bahhh … this can’t be the coolest …
Nice and informative.
http://www.facebookster.com
You people who don’t like Dylan are ignorant, and obviously don’t understand his music. So go write on some other blog about your bad musical choices.
This application DOES NOT WORK! It needs to be fixed or removed…..that simple.