Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way

In a press event in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Platform Products Carl Sjogreen announced further extension of the Open Graph, which will now allow developers to build a variety of apps that let users add anything they want directly to their timelines.

Sjogreen announced that more than 60 apps are immediately going live, including such favorites as Pinterest, eBay, Foodspotting, Airbnb and Foursquare. He said that when people add an app to their Facebook timelines, they can control whether activities they do on that app appear on their timelines. They can also determine who gets to see these updates.

SEE MORE: Facebook’s Big Announcement [LIVEBLOG]

This is just the beginning for Facebook and its relationship with apps, where Sjogreen said the company’s vision is, “whatever you’re using, you can add it to your timeline.”
Here’s the list of apps Facebook released Wednesday night, with more on the way:

TRAVEL

Gogobot

Airbnb

TripAdvisor

Wipolo

Where I’ve Been

FOOD

Foodspotting

Cookpad

Snooth (wine)

Urbanspoon

Yummly

Foodily

SHOPPING / FASHION

Pose

Pinterest

Polyvore

Oodle

Fab.com

eBay

Giftrocket

Payvment

Livingsocial

FITNESS

MapMyRun

Runkeeper

ENTERTAINMENT

Rotten Tomatoes

Dailymotion (French video site)

Cinemur (French video site)

Metacafe (videos)

Ford (game)

Wooga (Bubble Island, Diamond Dash)

OMGPOP (Draw My Thing)

Zynga (Words with Friends, Castleville)

GIVING

Causes

Fundrazr

Artez.com

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BranchOut (job search)

BeKnown from Monster (job search)

Color (photo and video sharing)

Courserank (education)

Grockit (education)

Foursquare (location)

Goodreads (books)

Kobo (books)

StubHub (ticketing)

Ticketmaster (ticketing)

Ticketfly (ticketing)

ScoreBig (ticketing)

Appsfire (app discovery)

Artfinder (art)

Autotrader (cars)

Add apps to your timeline contact here.

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SEO Secret Leaked - The use of Authority Backlinks

The Secret is:
- Using authority links to gain Google's love (highly effective in Panda age)
- And what if you can AUTOMATE this process!

Yes, can you imagine that? If you just add an outbound link to an authority page like wikipedia or answers, you'd have gained more authority than the rest of the pages.

I talked about this in Rank Mover as one of the check-point more than a year ago, many picked up and have since seen their ranking shooting over competitors, all the way to #1 ranking.

The crazy part is, no one has ever thought about automating this except Matt.

Matt created this plugin that will automatically insert Authority Links into your content and turbo-charged your site's authority rating.

It's really different. A site with an authority link vs a site without an authority link.

Therefore, I really need to send this to you so you can consider if you need it. It's on a dimesale, so be quick.

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The Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages of 2011 versus 2010

For two years now, I’ve been tracking the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages by size. We typically do this every month, and we’ve also ranked them by the impressions they generate, by how many friends their fans have, by percentage of active fans, and by how often they post.

From 2009 to 2010, we saw 19 new brands come on to the Top 50 list. In 2011, the list stabilized, and only 6 of the Top 50 are new.

The Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages of
2011 versus 2010.

Current Rank (12/29/11)	Sites	Rank by Fan Count (12/28/10)	Change in Rank		Fans as of 12/28/10	Fans as of 12/29/2011	% increase
1	Facebook	1		0	31,101,542	57,063,294	83%
2	YouTube	2		0	25,347,918	48,429,625	91%
3	Coca-Cola	3		0	21,379,704	36,550,760	71%
4	Disney	6		2	15,503,025	29,774,063	92%
5	MTV	9		4	13,080,317	29,561,231	126%
6	Starbucks	4		-2	18,982,636	26,545,854	40%
7	Red Bull	8		1	14,555,661	25,192,426	73%
8	Oreo	5		-3	16,153,388	23,726,721	47%
9	Converse All Stars	10		1	12,150,955	21,006,933	73%
10	Converse	12		2	10,268,722	20,797,579	103%
11	Skittles	7		-4	14,560,811	19,627,492	35%
12	Playstation	20		8	7,514,658	18,367,552	144%
13	iTunes	13		0	9,719,768	17,915,092	84%
14	Victoria’s Secret	11		-3	10,838,550	16,330,801	51%
15	Pringles	15		0	8,639,166	16,251,773	88%
16	Live Messenger	14		-2	9,354,915	14,390,925	54%
17	Monster Energy	16		-1	7,914,762	12,853,342	62%
18	Ferrero Rocher	23		5	7,002,242	12,623,150	80%
19	McDonalds	26		7	6,654,420	12,188,826	83%
20	Xbox	30		10	5,659,832	12,100,906	114%
21	Nutella	22		1	7,150,781	11,905,158	66%
22	adidas Originals	25		3	6,663,658	11,469,479	72%
23	Walmart	new				11,144,098
24	Disneyland	27		3	6,650,632	10,931,713	64%
25	Dr. Pepper	19		-6	7,517,036	10,919,436	45%
26	Zara	17		-9	7,674,496	10,789,792	41%
27	Victoria’s Secret Pink	18		-9	7,652,191	10,677,457	40%
28	Disney Pixar	24		-4	6,850,695	10,356,352	51%
29	Starburst	21		-8	7,318,221	10,184,110	39%
30	Burberry	47		17	3,636,234	10,069,386	177%
31	Levi’s	new				9,530,173
32	Nike Football	35		3	4,360,048	9,171,304	110%
33	Subway	37		4	4,312,319	9,065,885	110%
34	Blackberry	36		2	4,320,222	8,916,815	106%
35	H&M	29		-6	5,901,253	8,883,490	51%
36	Reese’s	28		-8	6,365,407	8,221,632	29%
37	National Geographic	43		6	3,924,632	8,080,827	106%
38	Starbucks Frappuccino	31		-7	5,456,418	8,074,557	48%
39	Target	50		11	3,537,480	7,924,384	124%
40	Taco Bell	32		-8	5,216,580	7,660,957	47%
41	Walt Disney World	34		-7	4,998,360	7,568,390	51%
42	Google Chrome	33		-9	5,182,937	7,564,216	46%
43	BMW	39		-4	4,187,602	6,982,735	67%
44	Pepsi	new				6,880,095
45	Lacoste	38		-7	4,206,561	6,866,403	63%
46	Zoosk	new				6,771,471
47	Mozilla Firefox	58		11	3,284,280	6,500,288	98%
48	Hollister	42		-6	3,974,089	6,403,039	61%
49	Mountain Dew	40		-9	3,993,312	6,306,033	58%
50	DC Shoes	new				6,277,843

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