Being a traveling foodie can be a really fun job, especially if you’re Anthony Bourdain and you have your own show on the Travel Channel. But for the rest of us, the cable channel’s new Facebook app will have to suffice. The new application is called “No Reservations: Hungry For More.” This is a fitting title because the application itself essentially combines Bourdain’s own content with user-generated content.

As a user of this application you can create your own style reviews. Text, photos and video media can all be incorporated into each review, which are all powered through a pop-up Kyte widget. You’re also able to read and rate reviews from other users that have added the “No Reservations” application.
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Turn based multi-player games have been a huge hit on Facebook but there are few that have a real-time multiplayer environment. Sacred Seasons can’t see any reason why there shouldn’t be more multiplayer games, especially massively multiplayer games. So the team behind this virtual game environment has ‘created a Facebook application that combines the Sacred Seasons world with the Facebook community.
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The most social brides are most likely socializing on Facebook, given the social network’s dominance online. So it’s no surprise that The Knot, one of the most recognizable online brands for wedding planning, has acquired one of the most popular wedding Facebook apps Weddingbook. The Knot has actually acquired WedSnap, the development company behind Weddingbook’s Facebook application, with sure hopes of tapping into Facebook’s wedding-specific demographic.
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Buddy Media’s latest app-vertisement on Facebook involves a partnership with Hollywood.com so you can imagine what the angle is here. Between the two media companies, the new application will be an engagement trap for users that could offer up a decent amount of market research.

The new app, called Hollywood.com Top 5, consists of a series of quizzes that lets you rank your favorite stuff. Celebrity couples, Comic Book Movies, Top 90s TV Shows… you get the idea. This app is a blatant attempt to get user feedback on consumer products and Hollywood news, but that doesn’t make it any less engaging to end users. How many times have you participated in, or created an 80s Baby quiz with friends on Facebook? Fess up.
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