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Facebook Friday: Trend Hunter

Trend Hunter is Facebook app from Trend Hunter magazine. It displays the “finds” of a community dedicated to spotting new trends and cool stuff. The app enables you to feature galleries of the latest trends or focus on your favorite category including: Technology Trends, Style & Fashion Trends, The Environment, Business & Marketing or Art & Design. You can customize the number of links and whether you want to display links, article summaries or galleries. You can download it here.

Facebook Friday: Pollection

Pollection enables Facebook users to create online polls. People can then deploy these polls in their Facebook profile, MySpace page, blog, or website. They can embed images, videos, and sounds into the poll. They also control access to the poll: private, friends only, and public. One intended use is to create gossip, celebrity, and rumor type polls, but Pollection is equally applicable to market-research tasks.

Facebook Friday: Photobucket Postcards

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Today’s featured product is Photobucket Postcards. This Facebook app enables you to send postcards to Facebook friends. The postcard can include a photo, image, slideshow, mashup, or video plus a greeting. You can pick content from your own Photobucket album or from Photobucket’s online library of images and videos. Click here to learn more.

Facebook Friday: Celeb Heads

I am going to feature a Facebook app every Friday—“Facebook Friday.” (An evangelist never rests.) Today’s app is Celeb Heads from Fafarazzi.com.

Celeb Heads enables people to send their friends free celebrity heads (also known as “fafa heads”). These heads mark a mood, attitude, event, trait, or feature of a friend. There are currently sixty-two different celeb heads with different themed messages ranging from "Hello" to "You need rehab." The celebs used so far go from Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears to Jake Gyllenhaal and David Beckham.

You pick a celeb head, type in a personal message, and select your privacy option. The recipient will receive an email notification with a link to view their celeb head. The celeb heads will also be featured on his or her profile in the Celeb Heads profile box. Click here to install it. You may think this type of app (“Send celebrity heads?”) is crazy, but this is the nature of Facebook apps, so we all need to get used to it. :-)

By the way, Fafarazzi.com is the celebrity gossip world's answer to Fantasy Sports. The site enables people to a create/join a league, invite their friends, and draft their team of celebrities. Celebrities are then measured by their publicity in the online entertainment/gossip world.

Facebook App: Books

I love the concept of Facebook applications based on my limited experience with Truemors for Friends. One bummer is that people can only invite ten friends per day to try a new application—which is problem if you’re just getting on the bandwagon. To help my fellow Facebook developers, I’ve decided to help them promote their application (there is one catch: they help me promote mine too). This posting is about an application called Books.

Books enables Facebook users to manage the books that they’ve read and to learn more about books that may interest them. The product’s key features include:

1. Share books with friends or the entire Facebook network.

2. Post comments and assign star ratings.

3. Discover new books to read based on real-world feedback.

Books is a great way to find new books and to share your knowledge and opinions with the Facebook community. There are currently approximately 50,000 users. It is available for installation here.

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Finally, if you’re a Facebook developer, here are two great posts that you should not miss:

• How to Develop a Hit Facebook App: 29 Essential Tools and Tutorials

• Marketing Your Facebook Application: The Series Introduction