Best Facebook Applications to increase your Productivity

Most People use Facebook to connect with friends and colleagues, Facebook can also help you increse your productivity.With Facebook apps – third-party plugins – you can make Facebook your u r favorite Site. There are thousands of Facebook apps floating around out on the web but there r few which r truely awesome and r great to use to but your business in Profits.

Writing Aids

• Zoho: You can add Zoho to your Facebook profile; this gives you the power to write all your office documents.
• MyLists
  allows you to create simple lists and share them with others.
• Edit documents with Documents, a collaborative text editor.

Social bookmarking and networking

• Update your Twitter status from Facebook with Twitter for Facebook.
• View your del.icio.us bookmarks with the del.icio.us Facebook application Facebook application.
• Get your five most recent Diggs with the Digg app; this one needs to have more functionality added to it in order for it to be over the top awesome, though it’s still pretty useful.

Search all the other apps in Facebook Repositories at http://www.facebook.com/apps
Files and Storage

• Files gives you up to 1 GB of free online space from which to share any kind of file: text, audio, video, etc. (Requires a Box.net account.)
• Swap and share files with Divshare, up to 200 MB in size.

Tracking

• Get the calendrial (new word, peeps) power of 30 Boxes in your Facebook with the superbly executed 30 Boxes Facebook app.
• View your Google Calendar events within Facebook with the GCal app.
• Stay on top of the hip and the happenin’ with the Upcoming.org application; get info about events before they happen.

Media

• Create your own personal multimedia channel – podcasts, videos, documents, pretty much anything – with SplashCast for Facebook. For example, I was able to find the last 30 or so NPR programs and tweak them into one long-running show – you can also use this to create presentations from .ppt files on your machine and share them with others.
• Who doesn’t love Scrapblog? Now you can tweak with your Scrapblog directly from your Facebook profile with the Scrapblog application.
• Keep track of your Netflix queue with the Netflix application – you can view others’ lists as well.
• Listen to yours and your friends’ Last.fm stations with the Last.fm app.

Editing

• Edit photos from within Facebook with the Picnik application. You can edit photos from your own ‘puter, the Web, Flickr, Picasa, etc.
• Use Picasa within Facebook with the Picasa app; you can upload photos, resize them, share images, and more.

Feeds

• Read your favorite RSS feeds from within your Facebook profile with MyRSS; offers a few hundred categorized feeds from which to choose from as well as adding your own feeds (doesn’t seem to be a bulk import option though – perhaps you can sneak ‘em in via OPML?).
• Share what you’re reading via the Google Reader app; displays only your shared items.

Web search
Search Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia from within Facebook with Search.

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