App Center: A New Place to Find Social Apps. By Matt Wyndowe Today we’re launching the App Center to make it easier to find apps you can enjoy with friends. The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and new apps including Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood, and Ghost Recon Commander. Discover the best apps for you The App Center gives you personalized recommendations, and lets you browse the apps your friends use. It only lists high-quality apps, based on feedback from people who use the app. Install mobile apps To make it easier to find social apps for mobile, the App Center is available in the Facebook iOS and Android apps, as well as Facebook.com.
You can send apps you find on your computer to your mobile device using the new “Send to Mobile” feature. Easily preview apps Every app in the App Center has screenshots and a detailed description, so you can learn more about it before installing it. Get started. Some Stats. Facebook’s App Center aims to make discovering third-party apps easier. Facebook has built a new application discovery tool to help its users find third-party mobile and Web applications that integrate with the popular social network. The Facebook App Center, which launched this evening with approximately 600 application listings, is accessible through Facebook’s website and mobile applications. The main App Center landing page on the Facebook website displays personalized app recommendations and a list of the apps that are popular among the user’s friends.
A list of application categories in the sidebar can be used to navigate into different sections of the App Center. There is also a toggle button that can be used to filter for Web or mobile applications. Although the Facebook App Center looks like a conventional application storefront, it doesn’t directly sell any software. Its purpose, at least for now, is solely to help users find Facebook-enabled applications. Facebook’s Dilemma With Native iOS Apps: Relevance or Revenues.
Facebook revealed some healthy new stats about how it drives traffic to Apple’s iOS ecosystem at an event today in San Francisco. The platform drove people to Apple’s App Store 83 million times last month. On top of that, it sent people back to iOS apps they had already downloaded 134 million times. Facebook was also integrated into seven of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and six of the top 10 Android apps.
The company’s emerging power on mobile platforms has been very visible in the surprising rise of apps like SocialCam and Viddy. But the thing to keep in mind is how huge a strategic turnaround this is for the company. Last year, Facebook was all about HTML5. However, over the last several months, Facebook has backtracked away from HTML5 because the technology just isn’t ready yet for many popular kinds of apps. What this means is that Facebook is forgoing short-term revenue opportunities in exchange for reach and relevance right now.
Facebook App Center Launch. Introducing the App Center. Today, we’re announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps. All canvas, mobile and web apps that follow the guidelines can be listed. All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch. A place to find great apps For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga. Everything has an app detail page, which helps people see what makes an app unique and lets them install it before going to an app.
Growth for high-quality apps Success through the App Center is tied to the quality of an app. Facebook is getting its own app store for all devices, all platforms, all prices. Facebook is launching a new App Center, “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps” — and not just Facebook apps. The App Center will bring Facebook’s 900 million users all the best in iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, mobile web apps, and even desktop apps.
“The goal is to solve the app discovery problem… based on what you and your friends enjoy,” a Facebook rep told VentureBeat in a phone chat today. You won’t just find free apps here, either. Facebook is also introducing paid apps. The company stated it expects in-app purchases to be developers’ primary money-makers for the time being; however, making paid apps available through the Facebook platform is the beginning of a very interesting business opportunity, both for devs and for Facebook. Not only will Facebook’s App Center apps be personalized (as only Facebook, with its huge social graph, can personalize); it will also feature an iTunes App Store-like focus on quality. So what does Facebook get out of the deal? App Discovery By Quality, Not Popularity: Facebook Announces App Center For Web, iOS, Android, HTML5, Pre-Paid.
Today, Facebook app discovery too heavily favors the loudest apps with the most users, so Facebook today announces it will soon launch the App Center, a single, personalized hub for discovering the highest quality Facebook-integrated games and utilities from across the web and mobile. And for the first time, Facebook is beta testing the option for developers to sell pre-paid web and HTML5 apps.
You’ll be able to access App Center via the web or mobile, and you can send apps you discover on a the web to your littler devices. App Center could be a huge boon to app growth on Facebook, especially for those that are beloved but not inherently viral. With any luck, App Center will usher in an age where your news feed is filled with apps you actually want use, not just the spammiest ones or those with the biggest marketing budgets.
Here’s a few more details on the App Center: Facebook is finalizing the App Center’s design. Facebook's New App Center Promises Quality Over Quantity. Last September, during the f8 Developers’ Conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said that the company had no plans for a “central app repository” – an app store. Today, Facebook is changing its tune. The social giant has announced App Center, a section of Facebook dedicated to discovering and deploying high-quality apps on the company’s platform. The App Center will push apps to iPhone, Android and the mobile Web, giving Facebook its first true store for mobile app discovery. The departure from Facebook’s previous company line comes as the social platform ramps up its mobile offerings to make money from its hundreds of millions of mobile users.
This is not your father's app store, though. Let's start with the requirements. Whether or not an app is a potential Facebook App Center candidate hinges on several factors. . • have a canvas page (a page that sets the app's permissions on Facebook’s platform) • be built for iOS, Android or the mobile Web Facebook is in a tricky spot with App Center. Facebook announces paid app beta program. Degusta: Jan 2011 - Amazon announce...