Because 3/4 of the world practically lives on Facebook, we’re bound to miss important information from time to time. More recently, Facebook greatly opened up it’s API allowing 3rd parties to better tap into the potential that Facebook integration could allow. Today, Facebook land get’s one of it’s best features/widgets/applet yet in the form of an App Store widget.
As you’ve probably already gathered, the widget of sorts lets you browse through App Store all within Facebook. Now, going through 100,000+ apps by itself within iTunes is daunting. Through a Facebook widget seems even more daunting. Alas, the creator of the widget, Vitrue, has designed it so you only dive into the “featured apps” for the respective categories, reducing clutter and hopefully improving overall enjoyment.
For App Store junkies and Facebook-a-holics, nothing is more perfect than calling this a match made in heaven. For family and friends of already addicted people, it’s best you get use to seeing the back of that person’s head even more.
Tried the new widget out? How’d you like it?
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If we could travel back in time as little as two years ago and look at the social networking war between Facebook and MySpace, we’d remember the cut throat battle that was being waged between the two. My how a couple years change people and companies. This past year has seen MySpace followers defect in record numbers with the once social network falling from it’s high podium. For most, the lack of innovation and overall inability to get past the whole tweenie bopper crowd is the sole cause for MySpace’s decline. Personal opinions aside, I never thought I’d live to see the day MySpace and Facebook teamed up. Perhaps “teamed up” isn’t exactly the most accurate term– more like “borrowing” a feature.
As early as 2010, MySpace could incorporate and rollout Facebook Connect features in many areas site wide which would bridge a monumental gap between the two social networking giants. With the inclusion of Facebook Connect support, MySpace will be able to tap into copious amounts of social demographic data as well as have access to untold amounts of traffic — traffic which MySpace could greatly benefit from. To reiterate, Facebook and MySpace haven’t actually “teamed up”. Instead, MySpace is using one of Facebook’s most useful yet neutral features: Facebook Connect.
For now, both sides are remaining relatively mum on what exactly either company will do in regards to feature support and new developments. If the rapid change in the last two years is any indication, the next two years will be quite a ride. What will MySpace’s Facebook Connect support bring? Leave it inside…
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