Top ten facebook apps

The Facebook Platform, which goes live today, means you can use lots of cool new applications within Facebook. We’ve tested most of them, as well as gathering together all the announcements made today. Here are more than 30 of the best, with more being added as they are announced - come back later for updates. More than 70 partners have already signed on.

Editor’s tip: We probably shouldn’t tell you this, but you can gain access to all these apps by logging in to Facebook and going to http://apps.f8.facebook.com/apps . Soon they’ll move over to the main Facebook domain, but for now, let’s keep it between you and me.

Add CollegeHumor Will-Ferrell-Comedy-Portal Jan-08 content, be it videos, images or articles, to your Facebook profile with one click. You can send the content to another Facebook user as well, adding to the viral nature of CollegeHumor content. CollegeHumor has also included the ability to add applications that showcase the newest and the most popular content, content from their school, as well as an application to insult their friends. Should be fun.

FeedBurner has built its Headline Animator on the Facebook Platform The-New-Faces-at-Facebook , and it will display the latest headlines from your FeedBurner blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds to Facebook users. The Headline Animator is a dynamically generated graphic that can be customized as well, and will show on your Facebook profile. This feature isn’t an added reader option, but it will enable you to create a Headline Animator for your blog and put it on your Facebook profile.

Splashcast lets you create your own channels to which programming from across the web can be added, including videos and images. These can then be embedded into your blog or social networking site, and now your Facebook profile. You can create a channel specifically for Facebook, and it looks like the integration into Facebook through its new platform will let you create and edit your channels from within Facebook as well.

With iLike’s integration, you’ll be able to personalize your incoming iLike information based on your Facebook music and friends, and be alerted as to when your favorite artists is going to be in town as well as which of your Facebook friends will be attending. You can also search and add streaming music to your profile, and discover new music based on what your friends are listening to.

Slide’s integration is simple enough: slide shows that you’ve created can be integrated into Facebook. Send them to your own Facebook profile or to a Facebook friend. In addition, its added Slide Guestbook, which lets friends add video, photo and text comments to create a collaborative slide show, and Slide SkinFlix, letting you personalize videos with skins and themes.

With the Forbes integration into Facebook, you can track company stocks and access related financial information, along with the latest headline news from Forbes. You can track up to ten companies by their ticker symbols, view the three most recent news headlines, and get immediate access to relevant financial data. This can be displayed on your profile page and shared with friends.

The Internet tv broadcaster will let you add a Favorites player to your Facebook profile, and is fully integrated with the Veoh YouTube-Competitors platform and favorite videos feature. It enables Veoh to increase its reach, tapping into Facebook’s 24 million users.

The community for dog lovers has a couple of features for its Facebook integration, starting with the Dogster Rescu Application. This allows Facebook users to feature photos of dogs around the country that are in punds and shelters, awaiting a good home. Dogster is also adding the Dogster Cute application, enabling users to showcase photos of the cutest dogs and puppies on their Facebook profiles. Catster will have the same offerings.

The slideshow app allows Facebook users to create music videos and slideshows mixing images, text and effects with a large music library, which has recently been expanded to include APM music, a joint offering from EMI and BMG. Fliptrack is holding two contests over the holiday weekend, including “make the best music video” contest featuring Plain White Tees’ single “Hey There Delilah” and the final week of the “make a video” contest for the band A Shoreline Dream. Finalists will receive a gift pack from the band and will be featured on their website.

Ma.gnolia’s social bookmarking app built on Facebook’s platform lets member’s latest bookmarks be available for friends to see. The links will be provided for other Facebook members that have also added the Ma.gnolia application. This is obviously an easier way to see what your friends have bookmarked, as it’s displayed within Facebook’s larger community, offering additional info like ratings and tags.

Source:http://mashable.com/2007/05/24/facebook-platform-30-apps/