facebook apps

In case you missed the news, the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook was released last week during the SXSW conference that took place in Austin, Texas. The new toolkit, built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft, lets developers create Facebook applications which are hosted on Windows…

At the end of the most recent PDC conference, Scott Guthrie demonstrated the power of Silverlight 4 technology using a special Facebook application. At the time, the application was known only as a demo app and not as a downloadable client, but today that has changed. The Microsoft Silverlight 4…

The folks at Plexipixel have created a new Silverlight-based game for Facebook called Roshamboom. The game is inspired by David C. Lovelace’s extreme version of rock-paper-scissors which he released back in 2007 after spending a year working on its creation – and its 5000+ outcomes. (Wow, that…

I’m not sure why you would want this, but a new app called PageRage will let dress up your Facebook profile so it looks more like a profile found on MySpace instead. (Yikes!) That’s too bad because one of the nicest things about Facebook is it’s clean and simple look and feel, without the busy…

Earlier this year, the Windows Live Messenger team released an app for Facebook which officially integrated Live Messenger with Facebook. The Windows Live Messenger Facebook app shows your online presence on your Facebook profile and lets you IM with your friends directly on the Facebook web site…

This summer, Microsoft Researcher Desney Tan led a team that created a Facebook app called Collabio to investigate a new way of applying meta-tags to people – by using the power of crowdsourcing. In the game, friends label each other with descriptive tags that can include anything from physical or…

A Live Search powered Facebook app called Search Share lets you search for all kinds of information that you can then share with your Facebook friends. Results for Search Share can include videos, images, web pages, news, and more. But Search Share isn't just a way to see traditional search engine…