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Facebook fixes up application directory, pushes verified apps
According to Facebook's Developer Blog, big changes are coming to the application directory, which will affect both developers and everyday users. With over 52,000 apps now available, the Facebook team, they're looking at new ways to highlight the best apps and help users discover the ones most relevant to them. This should deliver a much-needed image boost for Facebook, and help combat the impression that Facebook apps are all cheap pirates-vs-ninjas spam.The plan includes verified apps, which developers can have vetted by Facebook for a fee. The ones that meet Facebook's standards will be bumped to the top of search results in the app directory. This looks like a win-win, where Facebook gets money, developers get more exposure, and users get better apps.
Also, users will now see an activity feed on the app directory page, showing which apps their friends have used lately, hopefully leading to more relevant results. The application categories are also getting their first reboot since '07, making finding the best apps that much easier.
If you don't want to wait for these changes to start finding the most useful apps on Facebook, you can always check out my top 10 list on Download Squad.
[via Webware]
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Keon said 2:35AM on 5-21-2009
Wow!!! At least there are new applications for Facebook that will help the everyday users. But for the everyday user, they should be very careful to other people in giving informations about themselves. Because there are other people who are using the facebook just to get any personal inforamtion just to commit crimes. Don't trust anyone who became interested in you because maybe they are just using you. Like the check121.imscamsters. claiming you have an instant message waiting for you, don't open it. Check121.im isn't an instant messaging service – check 121, check 151, similar sites, are all phishing campaigns. So be very careful.
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