101 best Facebook applications
Facebook applications are the best thing since MySpace widgets sliced bread, as any fule kno. What’s more, they’re mushrooming by the day, as companies and individual developers alike catch on to the potential of having their content splashed over (potentially) millions of Facebook profiles.
But which are the ones worth adding? I’ve put together a big list of 101 of the best, most useful, most interesting and silliest Facebook apps below. And no, I haven’t just worked my way down the ‘Most Popular’ list on the site – I’ve investigated every one to see what it does, and whether it’s worth putting on your profile.
1. Top Friends. Flatter your best mates by putting them in your Top Friends box (and insult all your others by leaving them out). Get it
2. Tetris Tournament. Play Tetris and reduce your friends’ high scores to dust. Utterly, utterly addictive. Get it
3. Training. App that tracks your fitness regime, and compares it to your friends so you can offer mutual support (or laugh at the fat lazy donut-munchers in your group, obv). Get it
4. iLike. Barnstorming Music 2.0 application that lets you share music and show off your tune knowledge in the competition. Get it
5. Zombies. At first I was irritated by this, but so many people have signed up, it’s actually fun infecting even more. Sorry. Get it
6. My Aquarium. Your own virtual fishtank, which can only be populated by friends sending you fish. I want an octopus… Get it
7. Beers. Buy virtual beers for friends. Not as much fun as buying real beers in the real world, but better for your waistline. Get it
8. SkypeMe. Make Skype calls from within Facebook, which makes you a bonafide Web 2.0 media node in your own right. Get it
9. What’s Your Stripper Name? Note, if you’re actually a stripper, this switches to ‘What’s Your Internetweb Geek Name?’ Probably. Get it
10. Flixter Movies. Rate films, see what your friends are watching, and bitch about Optimus Prime not having the right shaped spoilers in the new Transformer film. Get it
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11. Fantasy Hip-Hop (pictured). Live out your blingest dreams by running a virtual hip-hop label. Get it
12. Likeness. Find out which of your friends you most look like, or compare yourself to the most beautiful celebs around. Get it
13. Friends Organiser. Sort your friends into groups, like schoolfriends, work friends, sports friends, and people who you don’t really like but they added you so you thought it would be rude to decline friends. Get it
14. Poker. Play Texas Hold’em with virtual money against other Facebook users. Just remember not to put ‘I’m rubbish at bluffing’ on your profile. Get it
15. Irrepressible.info. Facebook app version of the existing blog widget that puts snippets of censored stuff on your profile. No, not pr0n – unfairly censored stuff. Get it
16. Horoscopes. Show everyone that you’re a superstitious idiot who won’t leave the house if Mystic Meg spooks you. And she does spook a lot of people. Get it
17. Graffiti. Let your mates scribble all over your profile in a Banksy stylee. Except not as arty. Get it
18. X Me. Replaces the restrictive ‘poke’ feature with an option to let your friends do Whatever They Want to you. Which, be warned, is usually filthy. Get it
19. Moods. Splatter emoticons on your profile to show whether you’re sad, grumpy or joyful. Either way, you’ll look like a round yellow acieeed face. Get it
20. Causes. Sign up for a good cause, and tell everyone else about it. Without demanding money like a chugger, obviously. Get it
21. Where I’ve Been (pictured). Show off your global travelling (i.e. how huge your carbon footprint is) with an interactive world map showing where you’ve been. Get it
22. Red Bull Roshambull. Like Rock Paper Scissors, except branded by bug-eyed energy drink. Get it
23. Cars. Boast about your collection of motors. Even the old bangers. Get it
24. Trackfeeder Track Of The Day. Find out about a new choon every day, with links to buy it. Get it
25. Facebook Carpool. Find people to share a lift with (but check their profile first to make sure they’re not serial killers). Get it
26. I Have Never. Facebook version of that drinking game where you have to say things you’ve never done, then watch shamefaced friends ‘fess up to them. Get it
27. Dogbook. Because man’s best friend deserves his own Facebook profile, even if the Interests are the same on every one (wagging, barking, bum-sniffing). Get it
28. Super Wall. Like a normal wall, but super. Get it
29. My Questions. Pose lots of questions to your friends, and see if they bother to answer. One step up from those email forwards you’ve received 16 times, anyway. Get it
30. Hot Or Not (pictured). You know the score: upload your photo, find you’re a 4.3, cry. Get it
31. Tag Cloud. Let your friends ‘tag’ you with whatever adjectives they want. Could lead to you getting rid of several friends, depending how rude they are. Get it
32. Fantasy Stock Exchange. You could make a million, if only you had the starting capital. Prove it here. Get it
33. Picnik. Edit your photos within Facebook. Ideal for cropping out former friends who you’ve just deleted from your profile. Get it
34. SuperPoke! Another way to spice up your poking with other actions. Get it
35. HotLists. Show your preferences (e.g. Heroes or 24, Canada v USA, crack v ketamine) via the medium of colourful logos. Get it
36. Football Fan. Put your team’s badge on your profile. Sadly, there’s no option to deface it with wildly sweary graffiti when they play like buffoons. Get it
37. Catbook. It’s not fair to let the dogs have all the Facebook fun. Get it
38. Uber Music Player. Another music 2.0 application that’s very customisable. Get it
39. Games. A decent collection of online games playable via Facebook. Be warned, this will waste hours of your day. Get it
40. Roomster. Find a new house-mate or lodger, while checking their profile first to ensure they don’t list ‘Playing Deathcore Grime at 3am’ as one of their interests. Get it
41. Lego Man. Create your own blocky Lego avatar to represent you on Facebook. Get it
42. Awareness Ribbons. Show off a cause that’s close to your heart (well, your lapels) with these virtual cause ribbons. Get it
43. SlideShare. Share your PowerPoint presentations with Facebook friends. Probably more useful for the ones you work with, if I’m honest. Get it
44. Rupture. Show off your World of Warcraft profile to all and sundry. So they can kill you next time you log on. Get it
45. Scrabulous. Play Scrabble within Facebook, with the advantage of having a separate Google window open to find words with Q, X and Z in. Get it
46. PopSugar 100. Show off your favourite celebs (Jordan, Timmy Mallett, That Woman Off Wife Swap) on your profile, and see who readers of celeb blog PopSugar think is cool. Clue: none of the three above. Get it
47. StyleFiles (pictured). Create your own catwalk outfits using bits from Marc Jacobs, Chloe and lots more labels that fashionistas will know and love (i.e. I haven’t a clue who they are). Get it
48. Audio. Quick’n'easy way to share music files (and thus Kill Music). Get it
49. Twitter. Post updates to Twitter, assuming you haven’t dumped it in favour of Facebook status updates. Get it
50. Last.fm Music. Cool app based on everybody’s favourite personalised streaming radio service. And everybody does have a favourite, since you ask. Get it
51. Booklist. Show off your literary library, complete with links to Amazon with your affiliate code to make a few quid. Get it
52. Fantasy Cricket. Much more fun now that England are good again. Get it
53. Console Identities. Display your Xbox Live Gamertag, PlayStation Network ID, or Wii Friend Code on your profile. Cool. Get it
54. The Compass. Nifty political tool made by the Washington Post that shows how much of a lentil-chewing hippie you are (or not). Get it
55. Simpsons Quotes. All your fave soundbites from the TV show, displayed on your profile for all to see. Get it
56. Jukebox. Neat Flash-based streaming music player that lets you subject friends to your collection of Kula Shaker B-sides when they come to your profile. Get it
57. (fluff)Friends. Put a cute pet on your profile. Be warned, this may have the same effect on potential love-partners as keeping seven teddybears on your bed. Get it
58. Weight Loss Tracker. Diet going well? Turn your slimming into a neat graph so that friends can encourage you. Not so much fun if you fall off the treadmillwagon and start stuffing yourself with Milky Bars, mind. Get it
59. YouTube Videos. Search the most popular vids on YouTube and watch them from within your profile. Chinese Backstreet Boys a-go-go! Get it
60. Justin Timberlake. The Trousersnake gets his own official Facebook application, gathering all manner of videos and other content. D’you think he poked Britney? Get it
61. Herban Tones. Convert your MP3s into ringtones then pimp them to your friends via your profile. Doesn’t work so well if you only offer Cheeky Girls tones, mind. Get it
62. Friend Statistics. Work out the average age and gender of your mates. Then weep when they’re all 37-year-old males who still live with their mums. Get it
63. Stuff I Hate. Because social networking profiles should have a place for vengeful bitterness. Get it
64. Fortune Cookie. Like the ones you get after a Chinese meal. Except you don’t get to stuff your face with egg fried rice first. Hang on, that’s no fun… Get it
65. Daily Bible Verse. Because you don’t only find wisdom inside Chinese snacks. Get it
66. PuzzleBee. Turn your photos into jigsaw puzzles and share them with friends. Ideally used with drunken-night-out pics the morning after, just to mess with their hangovers even more. Get it
67. NES games. Play old-skool Nintendo classics in your browser. Just possibly not 100% legal, mind. Get it
68. Rockband. Create your own virtual rawk band, and fight your way to the top of the charts by signing up fans. I still don’t understand where the virtual sex, drugs and rock’n'roll comes in though. Get it
69. Zipatrip. Part list of where you’ve been in the world, and part travelog with photos of all your holiday happenings (i.e. you, red as a lobster, licking vodka off an 18-30 rep’s buttocks). Get it
70. Wikipedia. Search the planet’s best Encyclopaedia 2.0 from within Facebook, while telling yourself that it’s never inaccurate. Never. Get it
71. Pokedex. For Pokemon fans who’ve gotta catch ‘em all (or at least look at them on Facebook). Get it
72. Friend Wheel. See the links between your friends in a colourful graph-wheel stylee. Get it
73. Web Sudoku. Pit your numerical wits against a series of Sudoku puzzles, then compare your times to friends. Get it
74. SlideShows. Turn your photos and vids into rolling slideshows that even your family will try not to watch. Get it
75. Honesty Box. Send anonymous messages to your friends telling them what you REALLY think. Isn’t the point of friends that you can do this without needing anonymity? Get it
76. Food Fight! (pictured) Get daily lunch money to spend on food, then chuck it at your friends. In the real world, it’s wasting the planet’s natural resources, but on Facebook it’s just wasting your work-time. Cool. Get it
77. Vampires. Like zombies, except even more bitey. Get it
78. Lending Club. Borrow money from a collective of Facebook users. Although the fact that someone spends their working day on Facebook may indicate that they soon might not have a salary to meet the repayments… Get it
79. Diner Dash. One of my fave ever web casual games goes Facebook, with you working as a waitress. Except more fun than that sounds, honest. Get it
80. Snooth. Get wine recommendations, helping you step up from your usual habit of buying whatever’s got a couple of quid knocked off the price in Sainsburys. Or is that just me (hic)? Get it
81. Happiness Gauge. Show the world how grumpy you’re feeling today. Get it
82. Tarot Cards. Your own personal set of Tarot cards, showing the influences that govern your entire life. Death, Death and Death isn’t a great set, obviously. Get it
83. Russian Roulette. More death, in that you put a gun on your profile that friends can chance their arm (well, eye/brains) with. Get it
84. Pac-Man. Decidedly unofficial, but still retro-tastic gaming fun. Get it
85. Chess. Play chess against your Facebook friends, to show that you’re intelligent enough to have progressed from draughts. Get it
86. I’m A Virgin??? Well, are you? This game lets you guess who’s Done It and who hasn’t. Just like your schooldays. Get it
87. myCrush. Tag friends who you’d secretly like a cheeky snog with, and then see if they tag you back. If they do, follow up with a good poke etc etc. Get it
88. My Flickr. Show your Flickr photos on your profile, sorted in a range of ways (Tags, Interesting, Photoset etc). Get it
89. YouTube Skins. Put a YouTube vid on your profile, then bling it up with some surrounding artwork (for example, a plasma screen). Very cool indeed. Get it
90. YouCams. Where Facebook and webcams collide. And not just for cybersex either. Honest. Get it
91. iPhone Owner. Perhaps the smuggest Facebook app in existence, this lets the world know that you’ve got Apple’s new handset and they haven’t. Unless they’ve added this app too, of course. Get it
92. Art (pictured). Put posh artworks on your profile, to show how cultured you are. Or if you’re Prince William, to show which ones you own. Get it
93. Big Brother News. Who’s whining at who in the latest pointless argument inside the Big Brother house? Find out here. Get it
94. Chizzat. Live chat to your Facebook friends on your profile. For those who are just TOO DAMN IMPATIENT to wait for wall-to-wall. Get it
95. Your Hottest Friend. Vote on which of your friends you’d most like to spoil the friendship with a slightly-taboo shagfest. Get it
96. Project Playlist. Simple and cool app that integrates with your playlist on Music 2.0 site Project Playlist. Get it
97. Girl On Bus. Suitably silly animated game where you have to stop a cartoon girl called Maggie from toppling over on the bus. Get it
98. Friend Tracker. Find out who’s been reading your profile with this app, which lets friends click on a link to let you know they stopped by. Get it
99. Magnetic Words. Stick fridge poetry all over your profile, and see how many rude phrases people come up with. Get it
100. Virtual iPhone. Much less expensive than a real one, with no battery worries. Get it
101. Chuck Norris. Just because. Get it
Source : http://www.techdigest.tv/2007/07/the_101_best_fa.html
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