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WeatherPoke gives you weather alerts via Facebook
There are a lot of pointless apps on Facebook, but occasionally some useful information turns up on the site. WeatherPoke is one app that might actually tell you something you want to know, instead of more quizzes and top five lists. You can use it to display a local weather forecast on your page, publish the weather to your profile, or get alerts when the weather in your area turns bad. If you're a Facebook junkie, it'll save you a trip to a separate weather site every morning.
WeatherPoke gets its info from The Weather Channel's Weather.com, and constantly polls the weather, even when you aren't logged in. It's a useful app, but it's got a couple of bad habits that disappoint me in a Facebook app. The button to invite your friends is much, much larger than the tiny "skip" link underneath it, and there are a couple of Facebook dialog boxes trying to get you to publish weather info to your profile. These aren't dealbreakers, though, and WeatherPoke is a very usable, perfectly decent app that adds something constructive to the Facebook experience.
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kelleydr said 12:05PM on 7-23-2009
I'm afraid that I found WeatherPoke to be a horrible app and immediately uninstalled it. I don't know where they were getting their weather data from, but it wasnt' weather.com, as it bore no relation to our actual current or forecast weather. Two thumbs down for this one.
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weatherpoke said 5:43PM on 7-24-2009
Hi kelleydr,
If you go to the 'settings' link on the top tool bar of the app you can determine your own location. The app does auto detect it from certain FB fileds and IP but those are often not exact or uncomplete, therefore we recommend you set you own location. http://apps.facebook.com/weatherpoke/settings
I assure you it's from weather.com (now whether their data is accurate is another question;) but it's the #1 provider so it should do.
Best,
Tim
Lionel said 10:24PM on 7-23-2009
I'm trying to work out how to change from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
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Jonathan Block said 5:06PM on 7-24-2009
Click on "settings".
weatherpoke said 5:48PM on 7-24-2009
Hi kelleydr,
If you go to the 'settings' link on the top tool bar of the app you can determine your own location. The app does auto detect it from certain FB fileds and IP but those are often not exact or uncomplete, therefore we recommend you set you own location. http://apps.facebook.com/weatherpoke/settings
I assure you it's from weather.com (now whether their data is accurate is another question;) but it's the #1 provider so it should do.
Best,
Tim
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