You are what you share: 10 new generation Facebook Apps

One of this week's Facebook updates, the Timeline, has a major impact on how Facebook Apps will have to help Facebook users to define themselves through what they are doing - inside and outside of the Facebook environment:

Express who you are through all the things that you do -- the music you love, the recipes you enjoy, the runs you take, and more. Learn how to add apps to your timeline at http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline.

If you want to know what the future of digital identity and peer recommendation looks like, have a look at these ten new generation Facebook Apps that go beyond the “like”. Most of them are entertainment based, implying that your taste and activities with regard to movies, music, art and more. With these apps, you're no longer just “liking” a song or web video, but “listening to” or “watching” it. This way, your online and offline entertainment activities

1. display your tastes and thus define who you are, and
2. feeds peer recommendations to your “social graph” (viz. your Facebook friends and subscribers)

New generation Facebook Apps:

• Artfinder (178 monthly users): add your favourite artworks from Artfinder to your Facebook profiles and connect with their friends around art online.
• Cinemur (1,768 monthly users): Showcase movies/documentaries/comedies/... as you watch them and discover new movies based on what your friends are watching.
• Deezer (635,862 monthly users): by integrating with Facebook Platform, Deezer has built a social music experience that makes it easy for people to share their taste in music with friends. Warning: Deezer's music services are not yet available in Belgium yet.
• Mixcloud (286,101monthly active users) and Soundcloud (1,358,844
  monthly active users) : both part of Facebook Platform, which allows them to have users upload and comment on radio shows, DJ mixes or podcasts (Mixcloud) or tracks that are on SoundCloud.com and timed comments on them (Soundcloud) right in your Facebook profile.
• Myvideo (in German - 32,170 monthly users) and Dailymotion (in French – 63,189 monthly users): Discover new videos based on what your friends are watching.
• Spotify (4,151,457 monthly users): as you listen to music on Spotify, your Timeline will populate with your listens, as well as your top albums, playlists and artists.
• The Guardian (138,950 monthly users): once you add The Guardian app to your Timeline and turn sharing on, you can broadcast the articles you read to your Timeline.
• The Independent: Recently Read allows people on Facebook and on the Independent site to discover the articles their friends are reading,  By opting into the Recently Read Facebook application on any article on The Independent site, articles that people have read will be posted to Facebook for their friends to discover and interact with in real time. People can control what articles become part of their profile directly from the application, and also on Facebook.