Social network tips

Interactive social games developed especially for Facebook and similar to it resources by such developers as Zynga and Playdome are very popular these days among those surfers who spend their lifetimes in the web chatting and sharing their ideas and wasting their time entertaining themselves with all available Facebook means. The most popular interactive games as Facebook Farmville Game Application occupy most of their lives and that is why no wonder developers are interested in creation more profound and interesting amusing games for such pro Facebook users. The following article will serve as a certain review for the new but still rather popular among Facebook surfers games – Zynga’s Roller Coaster Kingdom which a free game application everyone can enjoy while playing it.

Below you will find assort of introduction of the Roller Coaster Kingdom game and few tips how to start playing successfully:

1) Roller Coaster Kingdom game or just RCK is very easy to find and install on your Facebook page. Check your News Feed and you will definitely find over these the posts like “Click to decorate your own roller coaster park” and so on which means you have got a sort of an invitation to join thousands of users who area already playing this game within Facebook all over the world. This link we give is also can help to find RCK easier – (just do not forget to login onto your Facebook account at first).

2) After registration a mascot of your park named as Wally will meet you and give you a sort of a brief review of all those game opportunities you can choose from just after the start. In general RCK gives a newbie about 15 thousands dollars to run his new park of attractions and the half of this sum you will have to spend in order to buy your first roller coaster for your new park. There are 3 options of choice are given in the very beginning so choose carefully because all of them gave different levels of excitement and capacity for passengers of your virtual amusement park.

3) After getting this tutorial from the friendly mascot you can start to create your own park using all available for a newbie means. Never forget that you won’t manage to have a huge park at first but then after providing your strategy of marketing and advertising your amusement park you can expect to expand it and buying new attractions like cooler roller coaster as well as shops and merry-go-rounds for kids. Rides and shops set beside each other will bring you virtual profits you can spend for improving your park even more.

4) Even if you are not logged onto this game application your park never stops to bring you profits, but level points will be taken into consideration and added only if you are physically in the game. And these level points are the only means to get bigger amusement park in RCK eventually. After all you will be offered to offer your virtual visitors booking some tours at your park because of high quality and popularity of your park. And that is when you will have to feel what is like to run your own park of attractions.

Those serious people who use Facebook social network exclusively for fun and chatting can use this social community for developing of their small business as well by creating a Facebook fan page and upgrading it with numerous applications which can help to rotate this page and logically can bring more clients to your business. Do not ignore the power of Facebook because by installing the following apps you will be able to advertise those unique services and products you can offer to millions people who use this network not for just for entertaining but for looking for certain small business in different niches in their area.

So here we go, prepare to see the list of the most useful Facebook applications for small business owners which may assist in branding, promoting and showing he favorable sides of your business to all your prospective clients on Facebook:

Facebook Poll

It is very significant for Facebook users to know their latest updates. This fact proves that your fan page’s friends and fans actually care about you and do not leave your Facebook page after spending only few second on it. Polls are used within the Facebook community in order to motivate people share their own content on your Facebook business page or because of proper building of your business basing on your customers’ preferences.

For this purpose you may use lots of applications but we advise to use for promotion of your small business fan page such app as Facebook Poll. This app turns the ordinary informal polls taken into the normal status updates into the official and interesting to take part in polls. This app is quite east to handle and install so you shouldn’t find any troubles with it from this point of view. You will choose for sure what questions to include to your poll, how to design it and make it whether public or private.

Promotions for Fan Pages

By means of this next app in our list of the best Facebook apps for small business owners we recommend to appeal to Promotions which can make and the n post branded contests, some coupons, sweepstakes and different giveaways in order to promote your business among those people who are ready to choose your niche of business but don’t know yet that they should choose you for this purpose. Customize, specify prizes and point the contest dates. Promote and advertise your business by means of the Facebook Promotions App.

NetworkedBlogs

Share and advertise your content on Facebook via NetworkedBlogs app because it has perfect social RSS and a set of tools and setting to turn your Facebook blog into real blog with new tab window, tags and other useful stuff only experienced bloggers know how to apply but still it doesn’t make this blog worse than this.

We like an idea of sharing some interesting Facebook pages focusing on specific groups of people and active Facebook users having the same interests and jobs and like to suppose that these professional Facebook applications can help people from different towns and countries but having the same careers to meet and discuss common problems and meet new friends having the same interests.

This time we decided to focus on such interesting professions as librarian and gathered in this article the most interesting for our point of view Facebook applications which may be very helpful for all people related somehow to this profession and who like an idea of communications with people of the similar interests within Facebook social network:

Books iRead

Having more than 200 thousand of registered this helpful application turns to be the most popular application for book reading fans and active social users on Facebook. iRead allows to do lots of things like sharing your own virtual bookshelf with all your FB friends and show them e the titles of books you are currently reading and those titles of books you are just going to read. Besides you can also form list of books you have read few years and those books which you will never going to read due to some personal reasons you can point out if you want.

Rating book titles and spotlighting your favorite book reviews you have read or maybe written by yourself are also included. This is very helpful application for all those people on Facebook who can’t imagine their lifestyles without reading interesting books and librarians in particular. Fully customizable setting will let you set this app as you like and discuss your favorite books with all your Facebook friends who have joined this application as well.

Librarian

This is a great online Facebook librarian service allows to check out through the links to books, some scholarly sources and even reference resources which this community can add to this page and then vote and rate every single book just like in the previous book app on Facebook. Add to this a great option known as “Ask a Librarian” where you can actually ask for a professional advice because many librarians find this app very cool and displaying their interests and job completely.

UIUC Library catalog

Having this app installed on your Facebook profile you may get an access to the huge library catalogue of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or even make few requests and get a live assistance from a librarian working over there. Ti service is great for many people – students, teachers, librarians and all those who are interested in reading good books and seeks for a good app allowing gaining an access to the rare and interesting literature masterpieces.

JStor

Stands for a very popular scholarly journal archive which has created a sort of search app allowing accessing to its enormous collection of full-text books and literature concerning mostly social science field. This app supports a remote login access and requires from you being a member of the website of this archive in order to use this app on your Facebook page.

If you belong to a category of proud iPhone owners and like everyone else like to browse Facebook then this article will be definitely very interesting for you, pals! We will discover the most interesting applications and groups dedicated to iPhone services which can be found ion Facebook and will prompt you how to find all required info about iPhones via your Facebook account. Let’s start to review the most popular Facebook applications and groups for iPhone fans and users:

1) feX for iPhone App (aka Friend Exchange service)

If you want to keep your friends’ photos updated whenever you wish then import their current Facebook images and photos straight on your iPhone contacts’ list. While looking for this application in the web you will face the fact it is also known as “Friend Exchange” service which was developed by the creator Punit Java. Unfortunately, this application cannot be installed directly on your iPhone before you buy it via the official iPhone Apps store.

This app will cost you only ninety nine cents which is less than a dollar but services this app can provide for you are really cool and necessary. This app has a fan page on Facebook and even a forum where you can discuss this app’s faults and advantages. Visit and enjoy sharing photos with friends in more suitable way via your iPhone. According to the latest info, the developers have added to this iPhone app on Facebook a calendar function so you could include your FB friends’ birthday dates in your iPhone.

2) iPhone Application List Application on Facebook

If you really want to know about the latest iPhone applications available on the official website of Apple Store then visit this app titled as iPhone application list on Facebook which was developed by the programmer Steven Schopp. You can simply add it to your page on Facebook and then use whenever you need it.

3) I Love the iPhone App

This next iPhone Facebook App lets you posting the badges according to your choice on your Facebook personal page in such way displaying your appreciation and love to this famous brand of cell phones and smartphones. Thee a custom bade you can change and you can add your text message to it. They develop lots of badges so you could create really unique symbol of your iPhone love.

4) iPhone Campus Application

If you need to know about the latest iPhone apps, tricks and stuff then you are to visit the page of the next application developed by Leo Pang whose product turned to be very handy for iPhone users who browse Facebook. You can install this app in two versions – via your PC desktop on straight on your iPhone.

5) iPhone Gifts Service on Facebook

If you belong to those users who like to send virtual gifs to all those friends on Facebook then this application from the developer Hanan Al Hashemi will definitely become your favorite one in our list. By means of this cool app you will get a chance to send to all your friends virtual iPhone accessories and cell phones. Such cyber-gifting stuff is very popular on Facebook so your presents will be appreciated and your friends will send you some virtual iPhone gifts back.

If you suppose by mistake that only kids are having fun while uploading their childish videos on Facebook and only porn apps developers design video applications for Facebook users then you may think twice and change your opinion after reading the following article reviewing the most adequate and popular Facebook video applications developed mostly for entertainment purposes:

Video

This is the most widespread and default Facebook services which you may add as a built-in app to your personal page at once after registration. Its main advantages are in popularity (more than 4.5 millions of Facebook have this app added in their personal pages) meaning it has a huge database of videos and lots of features so every user could find it useful. You are allowed to upload videos which weight no more than 300 MB or last no more than 15 minutes (which is however longer than average clip on YouTube). Such strict limits make the process of finding, watching and uploading your on videos even more interesting because this process is getting to be rather creative one.

Its major functions are quite simple because this built-in Facebook video service is foremost a video version of photo utility based network. It is strange because many users expect Facebook Video to become self-maintained platform within this large social network like for example MySpace developers made but due to the fact there are multiple video applications designed by third party developers such positions is getting to be more reasonable.

Vodpod: Videos

If you have registered on the video resource known as Vod:Pod then you can by means of this app integrate your Vod:Pod playlist with favorite videos and watch them like at any other non-Facebook blog platform. You can display the latest videos uploaded and added by you on Vod:Pod account to all your Facebook friends because they will be shown at once after adding them on your account ton this popular video network. Besides you will get an option of Vod:Pod bookmarklet identifying videos and clips anywhere and viewing the recent updates via your “Pod” being embed on your FB profile. The top 5 chosen by you videos will be displayed only on your account but the first video from this personal top list will be available for the other to watch.

SplashCast

Positioning it as an online video feed aggregator SplashCast looks like Miro in the cloud. You can view RSS feeds and flash embed videos and pull them out from the video player side where a user is allowed to arrange and display his own video channel for his Facebook friends. Besides it provides users with the so-called “View Bigger” option where you will able to view your videos on rBGH.

Mesmo.TV

Developed for proper social video discovery (according to the words of its CEO Davin T.Miyoshi) this service or Facebook video application is for searching videos among other users uploaded clips. You are able to browse and rate videos after watching them but it fact its functions are quite limited and only Mesmo.TV will find it useful.

In a case that someday Facebook will change its policy concerning playing music or you also (as millions of Facebook users actually do) find Facebook not so good when it comes to default music options and opportunities for promoting your band or simply to listen your favorite music we offer the list of the most interesting to use music player plugins and apps. Use them wisely because not all of them are the same when it comes to appliance and a set of offered features. Prepare to look through the list of the best Facebook applications for music fans who like an idea of integrating their music libraries straight to the Facebook pages.

iLike

Being also known in the past as My Music app this one is for no one of the most widespread music player app within Facebook social network. iLike lets you as a FB page owner create a new music profile and then scan you music library’s song list straight from iTunes. In a case you don’t have an account on iTunes you can add such list from any other music social network where you have an account. Such app will allow you adding music to your FB page without any obstacles and can help to share your lists among friends and take info about their lists as well. There are also few extra features you may look so check iLike right now.

Mixpod

This is a music player which can play list of your songs on Facebook page of yours. You can use the default skin or customize as you like it in order to make your FB page brighter. Besides it can offer the following feature – when a person click on any song from your list added via Mixpod he or she gets a chance to watch the corresponded videos to this tune on YouTube.

Music

Prepare to get the best Facebook music sharing app after installing on your page Music app. It willet you adding the clickable links leading to the songs you will add to your FB page. You are allowed to upload music from your PC or choose the direct music downloads from online resources.

My Band

This is another cool app which will be the perfect one for you if you are a musician because it helps to create original band page on Facebook, and post totally unlimited number of songs and download music to this upgraded page whenever you want to. You can share your music via this app and sell tickets to your concerts as well. It has more than 4 millions of fans so you should join this army as well if you want to make band homepage on Facebook really cool and popular.

Songs

They say that it is the most popular music player within Facebook so you should check this fact on your own. This app has more than 2 millions of active users telling us that it has certain advantages over other numerous music player apps which can be found on Facebook.

If you like an idea of learning more and developing your science addiction by means of Facebook applications and prefer to browse this huge social network by studying the world that surrounds us instead of building virtual farms this article is exactly what you need to get more info about different pro science Facebook applications.

To any taste and exclusively for science geeks these applications will help you to explore more secrets and discover new ways to make our life better and more helpful for us and surrounding us people. Besides you can test and examine whenever you like by means of the next bunch of the science Facebook applications:

Science Videos

This tool stands foremost as the totally unique and exclusive Facebook search engine specifically for science videos added to this huge social network. Every video you will find via this tool you can get as an approved one by reputable scientists for its quality, authenticity and accuracy y of data presented within it. The true gift-app for science fans.

Family Tree

You can build your own Family Tree with the help for this cool science application on Facebook. You can add an unlimited amount of your previous generations of all existing ancestors and even upload photos of those family members you are sure your relatives or simply use their Facebook profile pictures. After customization and management of your Family tree you can display it and show your family and heritage to all your Facebook friends on your profile page.

NASA Astro Photo of the Day

If you are a faithful NASA fan or related somehow to it you will definitely like an idea of posting every day a new photo of the day provided by this governmental pro astro organization of the USA. Enjoy the realistic photos of astronomic objects and phenomena.

F@H Protein Researcher

By means of this application you can aid those scientists wow are signed up for different medical research by offering your ideas or being involved in the process of creation new medical drugs for saving people’s lives. You can simply get certain home task to consider which are easy to fulfill if you have certain practical and theoretical knowledge and experience in any branch of science. For example, the well-know Stanford University and its developers’ team help to understand protein folding/misfolding and other related diseases in order to figure out how to cure them. Help to solve such problems as cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.

My Wikipedia

Display your favorite Wikipedia sections on your Facebook profile page. By the set default options this application can show your daily “Featured Article” from the home page of Wikipedia and can customize any posted article you will choose.

No matter from what point of view you will use and browse the next applications on Facebook social network as a doctor or a pharmaceutist or simple as a patient who desperately needs to get a specific pro medicine Facebook app – you will find the following list if not complete but at least rather helpful in different life situations. Developed as web 2.0 supporting apps and as simply third party fan applications they can serve and assist a lot when it comes to your health issues. Do not forget about their existence when you need medical assistance. Use Facebook to protect yourself and your family members in the risky medical situations and simply to get required knowledge concerning medical issues.

Medline Publications App

By means of this application on Facebook you can add your own list of Medline – listed publications via your Facebook profile and view what your FB friends have listed.

Med Tracker FB Application

Share your own ratings of your doctor’s prescriptions and over the counter medicines and drugs.

Healia Health Challenge Quiz Game for Facebook Users

Test your health condition and knowledge by means of this interactive and funny health quiz game application for Facebook account owners. Challenge your friends to find out who knows more about the first aid and other important health issues motivating tem in such way to learn more about possible ways to solve numerous health problems and be aware of the most obvious symptoms of the most widespread diseases. You will get a certain medical degree within this game and can become whether a Pre-Med, Medical Student or Chief of Medicine participant.

Support the Red Cross Group

Each time you will click on the Donate button within this group located on the special Red Cross toolbar FrozenBear organization will donate money to the Red Cross. They donate one USD for every 200 clicks users on Facebook made so click more often.

Health tips of the day Application

By means of this cool pro medicine application you can get the health tip of the day which is provided by experts from the popular online resource RevolutionHealth.Com where you can get a lot of such advices for free from the best specialists.

Mobile Health Coach App on Facebook

Add to your Facebook page a sort of a mobile health coach center to get health tips letting you life become better and happier life.

Awareness Ribbons App

Wear different awareness ribbons by means of your Facebook profile choosing among more than 300 reasons and concerns to wear one of such ribbons in real life. Every ribbon cause will transfer you to Wikipedia where you can read more about certain disease or a health problem.

Quit Smoking Community

Smoking is the bad habit which is hard to avoid and quit especially if you don’t have any support from surrounding people. Set up your own quit smoking program in order to prevent development of cancer and other diseases you may get as a result of smoking. Reward yourself and help other people to stick to their programs. Make this app as your way to freedom from smoking addiction.

Be an organ donor

If you really want to and can help people on Facebook become an active promoter or maybe even a donor within this group where hundreds of people wait for those who can help them to save their lives or the lives of the closes relatives and friends. Fill in a form online to become a donor organ if you are a resident of the USA.

If you prefer to use one of desktop applications to check your Facebook notifications and like an idea of integration of the default and popular Facebook chat feature straight to your desktop as well we offer few solutions which are presented by the widespread brands having perfect instant messengers which are fully compatible with Facebook chat service. By means of these IM programs you can easily interact with your Facebook friends just like you do it via Facebook chat but only from your desktop which makes the process easier to control if you have lots of friends to chat with and want to avoid in addition online logging onto your Facebook personal page.

Yoono

Working with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social network Yoono IM software is free and trustworthy which makes it extremely popular among those users who are looking lighter alternatives to such IM giants as ICQ and SKYPE. Created especially for those social networks users who like to use Facebook chat via their desktops this IM program also supports such chat networks as GTalk, AIM and Yahoo along with MSN chats. The features are custom and developed specifically for taking into account your demands to social networking chats supporting software including:

• displaying of real time updates of your Facebook friends from all plugged in social networks;

• letting you update your Yoono status as well as on all networks integrated. You are also able to share different types of content on all accounts of all supported social networks including Facebook and Twitter.

• you can work on your social network from online sources while chatting with friends can be transferred within Yonoo IM software.

• it provides different version for Windows, Mac and Linux OS users.

• it also can offer a special browser plugin working with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Trillian Astra

Take Trillian Astra as the high-end multi-protocol IM and chat client software that can gather all your numerous chat based networks in one place and provide an access to all of them at once via one small desktop application. It supports the most common chat networks including Facebook chat and integrates all contacts and chat accounts you have within the supported networks in one app so you could check your updates from all chats and trace in such way them more accurately and quickly. You can chat simultaneously within multiple chat networks being logged in onto them at the same time. The most useful features of Trillian Astra are:

• you can see your live Facebook News feed;

• you will be notified about the latest Facebook activity on Facebook via Trillian Astra;

• you will get the your Facebook friends’ birthday dates reminders;

• and for sure you can enjoy the complete Facebook chat integration.

Miranda IM

Being an open source multi-protocol IM program working with numerous chant networks as well Miranda also supports the most widespread networks with popular chat services. It is very simple to use unlikely the previous IM programs and it provides multi-functional services either:

• you don’t have to set it up, simply download and start to use it for Facebook chatting;

• you can extend its functions with browser plugins.

• it requires a bit when it comes to operating system resources.

Before starting to review this Facebook game application we want to emphasize that all reviewed game apps we offer for you are checked and judged according to our preferences and nothing more. If you don’t like the games about fashion we offer this time to review along with us just pass it by and read another post but we are quite sure that among Facebook users and our readers there will be found lots of fans of such peculiar game genre as dressing or fashion based game apps for Facebook.

To be precise It Girl is not quite a dressing and only fashion conceptual game because it contains the elements of another popular game genre – RPG (role playing game). Combining original view, interesting concept and fashionable in all its meanings design this conceptual game is going to become of the best games of the upcoming year in your personal list no matter of your gender and social status on Facebook.

Prepare to play the game containing not only the fashion theme as the basic one but also a set of avatars (both male and female) you may choose from and customize to enter the verse of the It Girl as an original character ready to experience one of the best RPG games of the last decade developed for browsers and social networks in particular.

This game is for sure about dressing up stuff and containing the elements of RPG genre it presupposes the fulfilling of certain quests like finding for the new and glamorous bag or becoming a famous virtual model or a designer. You will have fun while doing different Jobs they offer within the It Girl Facebook game. Your main goal is to look as fabulous as it is possible to make other players being jealous and envy.

There are the so called style battles which all female players will definitely like because they are funny and so familiar to all girls. If you like traditional text RPG then you will estimate the option of these style battles called as Showdowns developed in the mode of hitting-each-other fights.

Another main goal of this game is to attend virtual parties and winning such style battles to gain points and develop your character with new abilities and options to customize.

You can invite your friends to join you in order to get the status of Hot by improving your outfit quality by means of interaction and high social status. Prepare to buy stuff online and use your own ideas for customizing pre-made stylish clothes from your virtual closet. Surely, from this aspect the game is totally girlish but since there are lots of male jobs and interesting ideas for male players all guys should try this game as well in order to forget for some time about action and first-person shooters and learn to be more stylish instead.

Another thing to remember is that various clothes have different level of Hotness which is one of the most important statuses in the game. After gaining points of experience you will be offered to visit stores where you can buy new outfits to be a star at different parties. There is even a treasure-hunting style in such stores is added in order to make It Girl more familiar to the RPG style fans.

This fashion Facebook game destroy all existing standards about dressing games and you can make sure in it by installing this cool app on your personal Facebook page.