Who of us wouldn’t have appreciated an accessible and comprehensive virtual tour of schools back when we were applying for college? And how easy would it have been for you if you could take the tour while chilling on Facebook?
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Facebook is becoming an intriguing hot spot when it comes to receiving the latest information. On one end of the spectrum, we have the media sources that offer the latest local and world news. Conversely, it is also a spot for the latest updates on the personal lives of our friends. Today we look at five different tools that aggregate all of this content a layout that looks like a newspaper or magazine, which some people might consider more organized than how social media sites are designed. Read on to learn more about these applications.
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Our weekly growth leaderboard has seen quite a few changes in the last seven days. Conduit has had an unbelievable week, while Badoo and Causes have lost a bit of steam. Check out this week’s fastest growing list below, and remember to also use our statistics tool to see more details about how different applications are performing on Facebook.
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Whenever you’re ready to plan your next RV adventure, there’s a cool Facebook application out there that can help you find a spot to park your big rig: Campgrounds, developed by Big FamilyVacation LLC.
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Promoting a brand’s image in a setting such as Facebook means creating two-way conversations that eventually lead to more revenues. Using specific monitoring services helps cut to the core of the most successful social media strategies. We’ve selected ten products that offer quantitative data to help companies tailor content for to their audiences, and monitor the return on investments for these strategies.
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A new batch of games, tools to spice up the design of your profile, and daily organizers easier all appear on this week’s batch of explosive applications. They’ve all seen fantastic growth over the past week, and are on their way to becoming some of the most popular on Facebook. Be sure to use our application statistics to watch as they continue to rise. Check out this week’s list below!
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It’s about time that one of the earliest pioneers of online commerce opened up shops on Facebook. Today Amazon’s subsidiary Quidisi has opened up a few stores selling household items on the social network.
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Want to read your friends’ status updates even when you can’t have the social network site open in your browser, like when you’re at the office? A new application called Facebook Desktop does exactly that.
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With Facebook’s ever-changing news feed, sometimes it can be frustrating trying to remember where you saw funny status updates and wall post filled with juicy gossip.
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Forget about having to go to each of your friends’ profiles to check for new pictures, after Facebook notifies you on your news feed: Pixable now lets you browse through all your friends’ photos based on how many people liked, commented, or were tagged in them.
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