Along with the new application pages which were rolled out this morning, Facebook has also pushed the new application directory live. The new directory provides a much needed improvement over the previous version. I’ve spent the past few minutes browsing around and what I found most interesting is the feed of application activity among your friends which is now displayed within the directory.
This will make it easier for users to find the applications that their friends are playing as well. There are some features that some developers won’t be so happy about though. Rather than displaying new applications now, Facebook has decided to split applications up by two groups: “featured applications” and “applications you may like”. Applications you may like appear to be organized based on the ratings that users have provided.
Want to find the most recent additions to the application directory? As far as I can tell, that’s not possible anymore. Instead you will need to increase your popularity through existing distribution channels such as the upgrade application about page, news feed stories, notifications, and email messages. So how do you get into the “featured applications” area? Facebook doesn’t explicitly state that but a large portion of the ones I’ve viewed happen to be fbFund participants.
I’ll be reaching out to Facebook to get some clarification about the new structure of the application directory. Also of interest is that Facebook has switched the categories to seven new ones: Business & Finance, Education & Philanthropy, Games, Lifestyle, Media & Entertainment, Sports, and Utilities. We’ll reach out to Facebook shortly to find out if there are any other ways for discovering newer applications.
Go check out the upgrade application directory and let us know your thoughts in the comments! I’ve also included a copy of the video Facebook posted to their blog post about the recent update. It’s essentially a commercial for applications.
Update
Facebook got back in touch with us and we have a few updates. First of all, new applications are accessible on a category basis. If you view each category (not just “All Applications” as I was viewing), you can view newly listed applications. All of importance is that Facebook will work with developers who have a large number of fans on external fan pages to migrate them to application profiles. That way developers won’t be forced to manage two separate pages.
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You can see newest posted inside any category, just not the 'All Applications' homepage.
Comment by Facebook User — May 20, 2009 @ 8:53 am
So if you have a modestly popular app like I do, 80K active users you now can't find us in the directory at all because we don't fit in the top 5 pages. Yesterday we where on page 4 and now aside from typing in a related keyword users have no way of finding us, thanks FB!
Comment by Jackie — May 20, 2009 @ 9:08 am
cool
Comment by Daniel Adams — May 20, 2009 @ 10:54 am
Still doesn't help me find any apps for Pages that actually work well. They need desperately to make an app directory separately for Facebook Pages.
Comment by deelirium — May 20, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
Improvement and I love the iPhone style ad. Who wants to bet they start offering some kind of sponsored apps or paid placement etc.
Comment by Paul Malin — May 20, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
could this revive the (now dormant) Facebook Economy?!
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Comment by shalu — June 13, 2009 @ 3:03 am
New funny application from funfacer.com
http://apps.facebook.com/caricaturemaker/
Comment by vanj — September 26, 2009 @ 11:59 am
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Comment by princess — December 14, 2009 @ 3:38 am
Face Book is the best site i have ever seen in my life, so nice and easy going, you meet friends you have never dreamt of meeting for life, old friends This site is the best
Comment by Tega Lance — January 24, 2010 @ 2:36 am
I'm searching to find 'OTHERS' facebook pages. Surely there is a way? This is a search for what others write about in facebook. Where is such a directory? Thanks!
Comment by Edgar Ronnie Barton — March 19, 2010 @ 6:48 am
The Application Directory on facebook is not loading at all.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.And i want to see what is new to the app directory.Games.
Comment by Kimberly Poaps — June 4, 2010 @ 6:30 am
My app, http://apps.facebook.com/rails-across-europe, is a railroad tycoon type game set in modern Europe. It, along with literally hundreds of new apps, has been lost in the new app directory design. There are a lot of unhappy app developers posting to this thread: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?...
Comment by Jazzcat — March 31, 2011 @ 6:14 am
The App Directory never has new games on it.The App directory always repeat the old apps the are on it. and it never updates and shows new games ..FACEBOOK PLEASE FIX THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!
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