Tag: Applications
This week's Top 5 new Facebook applications: Fantasy Cricket, Storyline, Tetris, and more…
Cor. There are now 1,625 Facebook applications available. Someone, somewhere is putting every single one on their profile, I hope. But for those of you who prefer to cherry-pick your widgets, here’s this week’s crop of five new Facebook apps worth checking out.
TrustedPlaces social networking site links up with Facebook
The UK-based social networking site TrustedPlaces, which relaunched in February, has now announced new features, and collaboration with Facebook.
Thanks to Facebook opening itself up to application developers, its members can now access TrustedPlaces and seamlessly ‘roam’ its content, and share relationships across the two communities.
New features at the TrustedPlaces include the ability for members to upload video reviews of their favourite places. They are also encouraging members who have met online to meet in the real world.
This week's Top 5 new Facebook applications
Apparently music community iLike is adding over a million new users a week, thanks to its Facebook application. That’s the power of social networking widgets right there. It’s no wonder there’s now over 1,200 apps available on Facebook.
This week's Top 10 new Facebook applications
Facebook is going from strength to strength, as the nation’s thirtysomethings finally find a social network that doesn’t make them feel like a pervy uncle. And new Facebook applications are springing up by the hour, as users get the hang of customising their profiles with all manner of widgety goodness.
This week's Top 5 new Facebook applications
Facebook’s new Applications section goes from strength to strength, with a wide array of Web 2.0 companies producing widgets for the social networking site.
Last.fm Plus application goes live on Facebook
One of the most hotly-awaited Facebook apps was the one by music service Last.fm, which went live last week (you can add it to your profile by clicking here). However, users have been grumbling about bugs, missing features or simply that it isn’t living up to their expectations.
Could Facebook's third-party applications be a MySpace killer?
That’s what top venture capitalist Josh Kopelman reckons, anyway. Okay, so he doesn’t say the phrase ‘MySpace killer’, but he suggests that Facebook’s new third-party applications could leave MySpace looking like Prodigy or AOL from the early days of the internet, who tried to hang onto their roles as proprietary gatekeepers until they realised everyone else had moved on.
Google Apps to add presentation software, rivalling PowerPoint?
Google plans to extend its Google Apps office software with the introduction of a presentation application that takes a shot at Microsoft’s PowerPoint.
