Here is
good news for all those who love to play endless games on Facebook.
Facebook
is also launching its own app store now to aid its users to find games and apps
of their choice easily online. This app center has already been launched in USA
and has got appreciable responses for the same, it provides services like
pininterest and popular games like draw something and bejeweled.
Facebook
will also recommend apps based on ratings from people who use it and the apps
that their friends are using. Right now this facility is not available for UK
users of Facebook but it promises that it will available to all of its users
soon in few weeks.
The social
network, which now has more than 900 million members, will also sell its own apps
through the store. The act is been considered as a shrewd one by technology
analysts because the App Centre will allow the social network to showcase the
best apps, based on its extensive social data, which allow users to login using
their Facebook details via Connect.
Moreover
Facebook also encourages people to create apps for it in a Paid-For format and
those who create apps solely for Facebook will have to share 30% of its price
with Facebook, but no charge is made while promoting the apps it will simply
list the apps and the place where they are available.
Announcing
“the app center last month”, Facebook engineer Aaron Brady said: “Success
through the App Centre is tied to the quality of an app. We use a variety of
signals, such as user ratings and engagement, to determine if an app is listed
in the App Centre. To help you [developers] monitor user feedback, we are also
introducing a new app ratings metric in Insights to report how users rate your
app over time.
“Well-designed
apps that people enjoy will be prominently displayed. Apps that receive poor
user ratings or don’t meet the quality guidelines won't be listed.”
Each app
will have a star rating, based on Facebook’s social graph, like Apple’s App
Store.