With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a way to create and share applications for education. This, of course, is great news for online education, as it provides all sorts of great tools designed to make learning and administration easier. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for online education.

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MagToo, an image widget application and portal site that allows users to create slide and panorama shows and share them on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites as well as link them on Google Maps.

“MagToo introduces new features previously unavailable with other image widget applications,” says Jay Son, Founder and CEO of 3cim. “Users are always looking for new ways to make their profile pages stand out. Our goal was to build a superior image widget for social sites like Facebook and Myspace and give users a truly unique way to personalize their profiles.”

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eVOC Insights, a customer experience consulting firm, and RelevantView, a leading technology provider of Web-based research solutions, announce the release of a new syndicated social networking report, “The Changing Face of Social Networking - Move over MySpace, There’s a New Kid in Town”. This report explores the proliferation of social networking sites and identifies what key attributes are required to become a leader in this new and rapidly growing space.

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New York City-based Familybuilder, the fastest growing genealogy application on the Internet, today announced its members have created over 10 million family tree profiles within its Family Tree application on Facebook and Bebo. The company also announces it has launched its popular Family Tree application on MySpace, enabling MySpace members the ability to easily build and access their family trees online. Familybuilder now maintains presence on all the top social networks on the Internet.

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Vringo, the pioneer in visual ringtone sharing, has announced a new Facebook application that lets Vringo users import their Facebook friends’ profile photos to their mobile phones, automatically matching them to friends’ phone numbers. When Facebook friends call one another, their friend’s photos will appear on their phone screens as a type of visual caller ID.

“Vringo and Facebook are focused on sharing interesting content and experiences over digital media,” said Vringo General Manager and Senior VP–Content & Community Andrew Perlman. “By enabling Vringo users to connect Facebook friends with their mobile contact information, the Vringo experience becomes even more personalized and focused on users’ communities or social maps.”

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Hong Kong billionaire, Mr. Li Ka-shing, chairman of telecom giant Hutchison Whampoa, puts another $40 million into Facebook. That brings his total personal investment in the U.S. social networking site to at least $100 million. Click here to know more about this deal and other venture capital deals.

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What is the difference between a Widget versus a Facebook Application - and now a MySpace Application? This question comes up a lot when working with our customer base and other peers in the industry. Widgets (and I am going to focus on web widgets here) are stand alone applications that are sharable and can run on any web page as long as you have an internet connection and a browser (I am sure someone will debate me on this - and in the Social Media Standards committee we are debating these same topics).

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Familybuilder (formally iFamily),fastest growing genealogy application on the Internet, launched its popular Family Tree Application on Bebo. Bebo’s 40 million-plus members will now be able to access and build their family trees through the Bebo network.

The launch of Family Tree on Bebo comes on the heels of surpassing 2 million registered users and over 7 million profiles on Facebook since launching there in June 2007. This further reinforces Familybuilder’s status as the fastest growing genealogy application on the Internet today. The company expects to exceed 8 million profiles in less than 8 months of operation.

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Facebook is one of the earliest social networking sites that opened up for third party applications. In this tract, I will try to explain how a basic Facebook application works.

What is Social Networking?
Facebook is a social networking website (among many such as MySpace, Orkut) - it allows users to be part of a community. They can communicate with each other through a profile page. A user’s profile is typically public, or exposed only to friends or completely private. Users can share videos, photos and other information through the community.

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Imo.im has added yet another feature to Facebook! The imo.im instant messenger application for Facebook allows users to instant message and video chat with friends on Facebook. This application also enables the Facebook user to sign into multiple accounts. By clicking the “Link Accounts” button, on future visits imo.im will automatically sign you into all of your accounts.

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