Social network giant Facebook announced on Wednesday that it is
building its own app center. Besides providing a lot of new apps, the
new app centre will also enable paid Facebook apps for the first time.
The app centre is a new tool to discover the best apps, games and
services available at the social network. It will come out as an
important feature of the Facebook.com website as well as the apps for
iOS and Android.
At present users of Facebook are using the same search bar they use
to find people, groups and events to search an app. But after the launch
they will be provided with a complete dashboard with details and
ratings for each app.
The dashboard will show a list of top apps, exhibiting apps as per the user’s own usage patterns.
The new app centre is expected to be the zone to find great apps like
Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble
Witch Saga. Every app will have also an app detail page to describe what
exactly makes an app unique.
The company will also let developers charge a one-off fee to use
their service through Facebook. Earlier Facebook had launched the
Facebook’s Open Graph initiative. It encouraged many top content
providers to amalgamate their services into Facebook which also appeared
at their Timeline or within the Live Ticker.
The new app of Facebook will also introduce paid apps on Facebook.com
that will offer a new opportunity for Facebook developers to monetize
their Facebook accounts. However Facebook will collect a 30% cut from
each of these transactions.
Facebook is rapidly growing to meet the ever increasing passion of
its users as well as introducing revolutionary facilities to attract
even new surfers to enter its world. In this attempt, it seems very
interesting to know about the new app centre.
We urge our readers to let us know about their reaction to the new approach by commenting on this article.
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