Image via CrunchBaseAppirio (www.appirio.com) today announced a Facebook application that allows businesspeople to use their social network to get their job done. Appirio’s new product, MyFriends@Work, connects the sophisticated CRM capabilities of salesforce.com with the viral social networking capabilities enabled through Facebook Platform, giving users a powerful business tool to deepen customer relationships and assist with sales and marketing efforts. MyFriends@Work is a free application from Appirio available on Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/myfriendsatwork/) or through www.appirio.com/facebook.

Facebook is the internet’s leading social utility. Connecting Facebook’s 110 million users with an enterprise’s core business applications can help both organizations and individuals capture the power of social networking to contribute to the business’ bottom line. MyFriends@Work alerts employees when their Facebook friends do business with their company, enabling them to act on this knowledge to aid sales, nurture leads and impact the customer experience. Here are a few of the ways MyFriends@Work can be used today:

Sales: An old friend on Facebook becomes a lead for a different department in your organization. If you knew, you could help facilitate an introduction and deepen that connection.

Marketing: A college classmate signs up for an event your company sponsors. If you knew, you could reconnect with them or offer information that could make the event a better experience.
Support: An ex-colleague files an angry support request with your company. If you knew, you might be able to help escalate the incident or smooth the waters for a better resolution.

This application brings user

Online social network Facebook is now offering its users the opportunity to preview and test new features and functionality before they are made available to all of Facebook’s 80 million members over the coming days. In development over the past six months, the redesign includes an integration of all of a user’s various feeds in a single stream of updates.

The user is free to make any layout according to his convenience. PageRage currently works with Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.x & 3 on Windows XP and Vista, as well as Firefox 2.x & 3 on Mac OS X. The work is going on to make it compatible with Internet Explorer 8 as well as Safari for Mac. Other users who are using PageRage will be able to see the changes one makes to his Facebook page, but in the near future there will be options for users to change things that only will see such as changing the look of all Facebook pages and so that his changes are apply will appear on all the pages a user views.

We can also expect a release of a new version that will enable users to change their view of other pages to enable the ability to add a layout that shows up on all of the pages that a user views, although these layouts will not be visible to anyone else.

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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeThe US Election 2008 Web Monitor provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage. Lists of keywords summarize the most important issues associated with each candidate, this helps the user to identify which one is the best and is eligible to e the next president of US. This application provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage.

It captures the Web sites of international media from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, environmental organizations, the Fortune 1000 which is the biggest US companies in terms of revenue, as well as 1000 popular blogs on political issues and reflect the results. From these sites, the system processes more than 800,000 documents each week. It collects the data on Monday and publishes the results on Thursday. It keeps updating the current results which help the user to caste their vote for their candidate.

Image via WikipediaWith the Sentiment Quiz, Facebook users and their network of online friends can evaluate whether sentences from an archive of election-related news media articles express positive or negative sentiment. This will really help them to caste their vote to the right candidate and will know them much better. Participants earn points for matching answers, but can also lose them if their opinions differ from the answers of their opponent.

This kind of built in notification system will really help the Facebook users to move in a right path. This will help them to analyze their own decisions and will help them to understand them in a much better way. This phenomenon is really awesome and will really help the users to understand what they are doing and can compare with the algorithms and the statistics which are shown to them.

RedBoxBlue is a British Pop Rock band originating from South London. The band formed in 2007 and its members are Jonathan Haselden who is a specialist in vocals, and guitar, Sam Harrop on keyboards and vocals, Rob Bohner plays guitar and vocals), Timo Simpson (guitar, vocals), Dominic Gianetta (bass) and Tom Marrow on drums. This group is now planning to do the live gigs o Facebook. The fans can catch them live at 4 June, 2008 at 7 pm GMT. The gigs are planned to be performed at a place in London but will be shown live on Facebook. The networking Site will provide the fans the five consecutive rocking nights and few more at different regions and zones across the world. This has been done especially for their fans in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hong Kong.

All will play the rocking music and the fans are just advised to bring their speakers at the loudest volume. The shows have been scheduled and the band is just ready to bring their fans at their feet. The user has to become a fan and has to invite as many friends he can. If 50 or more of his friends become fan then the user will be presented an exclusive track of the band. So come and be a part of this concert at Facebook.

Smart Links

Developers:

The application has been created by Deft Labs. About Deft Labs is a social application service provider.

Application:

Smart Links is a free productivity tool for Facebook that enables you to organize your friends, groups, applications and external links into folders.
Where it is placed:

Smart Links only places a link in your left hand navigation. The application does not place anything on your profile page or publish anything to your feed.
Install

Install the application and take a look at the FAQ tab for more information on how to use Smart Links. After you install the application, if you don’t see Smart Links underneath your “Applications” (left hand navigation) then click the “more” link.

Where I’ve Been, a Facebook application that shows your friends which countries you’ve visited (and the ones you’re planning to visit), is reportedly sold to Tripadvisor (a travel review site) for 3 million dollar.
Where I’ve been is one of the most used Facebook applications, with 2.3 users. This would give the sale a 1,30 dollar/user valuation - making it by far the biggest deal for a Facebook application this far.