Top 5 Most Recommended Facebook Applications
Facebook® is a social utility that enables users with a common connection to network with one another. Originally launched as a method for college students to connect, the web site has extended to include organisations, professional networks and geographical regions.
In May 2007, Facebook allowed developers to upload Facebook applications – offering an opportunity to penetrate their existing base of over 30 million active users.
The power of social media has enabled users to completely interact in every aspect on a Web 2.0 playing field. More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. Undoubtly creating your own business branded Facebook Application is an extremely powerful online marketing commodity.
The power of Facebook lies infiltrating the right networks throughout the platform. In essence, to plug into this Web 2.0 portal, you need to completely understand the network ladders that exist on Facebook and an understanding the mechanics of social networking.
So, you’ve heard of six degrees of separation right? Well consider social networking as a virtual form. Each social network contains lists of friends who users normally interact with. Friends eventually accumulate - as their network grows, they become members of micro-networks that allow users to be distinctly tied to one another.
These micro networks define who they are as individuals – welcome to the power of human to human interaction and the virtual connection that makes it happen.
Personalised Facebook applications allow organisations to penetrate this intimate world of micro networks and very foundation of basic human interaction.
Statistics show 14 million people interacted with Facebook Applications in just one month, capturing more time per session than any other activity on the site.
Top 5 Most Recommended Facebook Applications
1. Slide
Slide’s application enables users to create their very own slide show to feature on their Facebook Profile and forward to their Facebook Friends, containing photos and other digital content. An added tool, Slide Guestbook, offers friends the chance to submit video, photo and text comments to create a combined slide show, and with Slide SkinFlix, users have the capability to personalise videos with skins and various themes.
Developed by Robert Beerworth and Jason Deacon of Wiliam
Allows users to add personal or corporate blogs to their Facebook profile via an RSS Feed. Users are able to add images, feed descriptions and circulate it to other friends on their Facebook network. Its flexibility enables users to redirect their current subscriptions to RSS Feeds from websites such as MySpace, MSN Live Spaces and Blogspot, onto their own Facebook Profile.
3. Fliptrack
Fliptrack is a slideshow application that allows users to create music videos and slideshows incorporating images and text with music, supplied by labels EMI and BMG.
4. Jobster
Jobster’s application targets Facebook direct demographic – university students and graduates. With Jobster, users can search for jobs, connect with other job seekers and obtain the necessary information to further their opportunities for career advancement.
5. Where I've Been
The Where I've Been application allows users to highlight the countries they have visited, lived in, or desire to visit by clicking and changing their colour. The map may be circulated to other Facebook Friends, turning it into an entirely interactive world.
Using a rich set of tools and online services, developers can now build an application that is deeply integrated into the Facebook website. Facebook Applications offers bottomless incorporation into the Facebook website, distribution through the social graph and an opportunity to build business brands virally.
