Paramount Picture has announced a deal that will see it make thousands of movie clips available to Facebook users. Silicon Valley developer FanRocket will launch an application called VooZoo which will go live Monday (LA time). Paramount will use the clips to market its extensive catalogue of DVDs.When a clip - which could be anything from a few second snippet from Beverly Hills Cop, to several minutes from classics like Breakfast at Tiffanys - a button will appear that users can click to buy a DVD. The service gives Facebook users access to footage from thousands of movies, ranging from The Ten Commandments to Forrest Gump, to send to others on the popular social networking site.

The short clips for a movie that you’ve already seen before helps you relive the moment. The studio will market DVDs of the movies through a button that appears after each clip is played. It eventually wants to use the application to virally market upcoming releases. For example, VooZoo is withholding clips from the “Indiana Jones” series until it works out a way to market the May 22 release of the latest installment, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Now brands themselves will be able to interact with Facebook users via a new application which it is claimed turns the social networking site into a profitable enterprise for both retail brands and users. This application is named as Wishlist, which has been created by affiliate network Affiliate Window. Brands with the Affiliate Window ShopWindow datafeed - such as Body Shop, Play.com, Marks & Spencer, and Woolworths - will now be able to put a Facebook link next to every product on their websites, allowing Wishlist users to add the item to their own Facebook list. Facebook users who will add the Wishlist application will earn commission on any products purchased via a link on their Wishlist, effectively turning them into affiliate marketers. The commission earned is paid directly into users’ bank accounts via PayPal. Wishlist users can browse Affiliate Window’s database of 4 million items from over 450 participating retailers. Users can also recommend the application to their Facebook friends and earn 50 per cent of the commission on any sales that their friends’ Wishlists produce. The concept was created by Affiliate Window in conjunction with application developer Toby Beresford in order to find a non-intrusive and socially acceptable way for brands to interact profitably with Facebook users. Now the user can also earn money by just adding his marketing brain to it.

On March 9 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of a French-language version of his popular social networking site. The launch follows the debut of a Spanish-language site in February and a German site earlier this month. Facebook relied on French-speaking members of the site to translate the site to French from English, as it has done with previously launched Spanish and German versions. Facebook has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently. Roughly 60 percent of Facebook’s more than 67 million users live outside the United States.France is the sixth most active country on Facebook, while Canada, with its own sizable French-speaking population, is third.

The United States is No. 1, followed by Britain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, France, then Sweden, Norway and Colombia. Users who added the Facebook translation application were allowed to submit translations online while browsing the site. Facebook users then approved all translations through a voting system. Facebook members who wish to use the site in French, German or Spanish can now change languages in their account settings to those languages. Anyone who signs onto Facebook from a French-speaking country automatically sees the site in French. Facebook is playing catch-up in terms of languages to rival News Corp’s MySpace, which has national sites in more than 20 countries. MySpace offers versions of its site in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, German and Italian, including a site for U.S. Spanish speakers and another for French Canadians.