Cooliris is a browser extension that lets you browse photos, videos games and news stories from various websites. A new Facebook application for Cooliris is taking the browser extension to the next level with Facebook-specific media enhancing features, including an interactive 3D wall for speedy browsing.

The Cooliris Facebook app allows you to scan all of your friends’ photos at once, in this 3D wall. The interactive portion comes into play when you note you’re able to skip to more photos of a friend based on their tags. These photos will also be seen in an interactive 3D wall.
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The Boost Facebook application comes by way of a Firefox extension, in order to enhance your overall Facebook experience. Through custom skins, photo album enhancements and things like one-click poking, Boost is all about making your time spent on Facebook a little bit more fun.

The browser add-on has seen significant growth in the past week, shooting from about 2,400 monthly active users to nearly 6,000. The spike is quite noticeable as the Boost application has been around for well over a year, and had appeared to have plateaued recently, with a steady amount of monthly active users right around the 2,500 mark.
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What would you do for $1,000? That’s the question the new Crank sweepstakes is asking. And yes, that’s Crank 2 High Voltage the movie. In theaters on April 17th, the Lionsgate film is running a sweepstakes, 14 Days of Mayhem, to promote the upcoming Crank. And this contest is mayhem indeed (access the contest here). The Visionaire Group is the creative agency behind this unique application.

Leveraging Facebook Connect, the Crank sweepstakes not only makes it easy to register for the contest but it uses the handy Facebook newsfeed in order to spread the promotion throughout your social graph. And in a potentially controversial marketing ploy, Crank is asking the participants to publish some pretty crazy stuff in their news feeds.
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Are word games Facebook apps time wasters? Yes, but that’s why we love them.

Of the top applications on Facebook, a large proportion of them are games.  And it’s easy to see why.  Games are a great way to escape, or simply clear your mind during a short break from work.

As many of us peruse Facebook while we’re at the office, it’s not a big jump to say that the ready access to a plethora of games within the social network is an enticing way to pass the time.  As one of the top five activities done on the Internet, gaming is also a big money maker for developers that are merely taking advantage of the portal Facebook has offered up.  Today we’re reviewing our pick for the Top 5 word games on Facebook.
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Facebook started out as a network for college students, so it only makes sense that organizations like Kaplan turn to Facebook for outreach and to make themselves available to college and post-grad students as resources. This week Kaplan is launching a new suite of Qbank applications for the SAT/ACT, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT and NCLEX. These follow the success of Kaplan’s USLME Qbank application for medical students that was released on Facebook just weeks ago.
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ffwd, the video player that provides recommendations based on personal preference and social interaction, is expanding its social realm to include Facebook Connect. The integration of Facebook Connect makes it easier for an existing user or potential new user that already has a Facebook account to login to ffwd and participate in the video viewing features of the player.
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When the new Facebook redesign rolled out a couple weeks ago, many users were confused by the new layout, some of which were threatening to leave Facebook if the issues weren’t resolved. Whether or not the users are angry, there have been a few silent winners of the new redesign: quiz applications and Living Social. Many users have complained about the non-stop quiz stories in their feeds but there is no doubt that it has driven substantial traffic to these applications.
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What if Facebook photos could tag themselves? Now they can, with the new Photo Finder application from Faces.com. I’ve been playing around with this app for a little while now, and my appreciation for it grows with each use. My private beta access for Photo Finder couldn’t have come at a better time, since I just returned from the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. I saw a lot of people there, and met even more. That’s a lot of photo-tagging to do, for not only the people I’m already friends with on Facebook, but for the new acquaintances I have yet to connect with online.
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The latest app-vertisement from Buddy Media is called InTru3D, and it was created for Intel. In beta for the last month, the InTru3D application on Facebook lets you create a 3D avatar that can interact with other users’ avatars and participate in games as well. The application is really a way for Intel and Dreamworks to show off some of the technology used for games and movies in a branded environment that is interactive enough to captivate Facebook users’ attention.
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There’s a good deal of potential in Facebook gifting applications, both native apps offered by Facebook and third party applications that take advantage of Facebook’s developer platform. But few have figured out the sweet spot for monetizing many gifting applications on Facebook. A new application called Personal Picture Gifts is hoping to find a niche way in which to monetize and create value for gifting applications that’s extended to users.
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