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25 Facebook Desktop and Web Applications
By Jamie | July 16, 2007
Recently I’ve been play around with non-embedded Facebook applications, i.e. ones that can interact with Facebook from your desktop or add Facebook features to your web browser. I’ve also had a look at third party website’s that use Facebook’s API.
Here is my comprehensive list…
Firefox
- Firefox Toolbar - Be alerted within Firefox when your network changes and share content easily with your network
- On the same page as the Firefox Toolbar you can also get Facebook as a search engine for Internet Explorer and Firefox
- Facebook Photo Album Downloader - Easily download whole photo albums off Facebook
- Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader) - Upload photos to Facebook, also supports Flickr and YouTube uploads
- Boost Facebook - Main reason for installing this add-on is it’s Autologin feature, but it also has many more hacks it can apply to Facebook
- Picnik - Send pictures directly to Facebook and Flickr within Firefox, edit them too
Apple Mac
- Facebook Exporter for iPhoto - Enables iPhoto to export photos directly to Facebook
- Friendsaver - Generate screensavers based on your friends photo’s
- Facebook Widget - Notifies you when updates occur in your network
- FacebookSync - Syncs your Facebook contacts with your Mac Address book, one way of course
Windows
- Facebook Photo Uploader - Dedicated application to upload your photos
- fbquick - Receive instant profile notifications on your desktop
- Friend Explorer - Display and sort your friends as if they where in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You need to right click on the MSI file and Save As.
- fbTrayNotify - Sits by the clock in the taskbar and notifies you when updates occurs in your network
Internet Explorer
- Internet Explorer Toolbar - Same as the Firefox toolbar, notifications and content sharing
WordPress
- facebook-photos - Blog your Facebook photo’s straight to WordPress
Opera Widget
- Opera Widget - Display and search for your friends, show their status, receive notifications of messages, pokes etc.
Web Based / Java
- FriendVis - Creates a visual map showing how your friends are connected
- Friend Mapper - Maps your friends onto Google Maps - (Boo USA only!), stop press a UK version here and other one here
- Google Gadget - Add Facebook stats/status to your iGoogle page
- FBcal - Generate a birthday calendar of your Facebook friends and add it to Apple’s iCal, Mozilla’s Sunbird, or Google Calendar.
- lickuacious - Produces various interesting statistics on your friends, your networks make up (sex, relationship status etc), very interesting!
- Flickr2Facebook - Post your Flickr photos to Facebook
- thefriendmatch - Matching making
You might also want to check out…
- 30+ Awesome Applications for Facebook
- Five most popular apps on Facebook
- Facebook applications for comparison
- Top 10 embed Facebook applications.
What are your favourtie non-embed Facebook applications?
Please feel free to leave a comment with any applications you feel are worthy of a mention and I will update the list.
Topics: Business, Marketing & Social Media |
July 17th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Great List! My favorite Facebook add-on overall is the Google Reader Addon mentioned over at Robert Scoble’s blog:
http://scobleizer.com/2007/07/15/google-reader-facebook-yummy/
Brent
August 4th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Just want to the add this one as another list-worthy app!
August 6th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Brent - I’ve been meaning to give Google Reader facebook thing a test.
Jamie
August 29th, 2007 at 5:49 am
How about the Indie Films app in Facebook? It installs and controls a desktop client app (a P2P engine and DRM decryption system).