Facebook New App Center with more than 600 apps.

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Facebook centralized app store or marketplace has been long overdue. The company announced plans to highlight the new app store prominently in the future to point users of the social networking site into the right direction.

Facebook AppCenter that only high-quality apps will be listed with more than 600 social apps, including Nike+ GPS, Ubisoft Ghost Recon Commander, Stitcher Radio, Draw Something, and Pinterest etc.

Each person will have a personalized experience there with recommendations based on the apps they and their friends use, whether that be games or fashion, food, fitness, travel, or other lifestyle apps.

The App Center is available on mobile via the Facebook apps for iOS and Android, or by accessing Facebook.com on mobile. The majority of apps listed in the App Center seem to be games, which is the only category right now that expands into subcategories when clicked on. You will find the usual assortment of casual games listed here, from classics like Diamond Dash, CityVille or FarmVille, to games like Glory of Rome or Solitaire Castle which are currently trending on Facebook. You can always click o the Friends’ listing to see what friends have been playing in the past.

According to Statistics:-

• More than 230 million people play games on Facebook every month
• More than 130 games on Facebook have more than 1 million monthly active users.
• More than 4,500 timeline apps have launched since f8 in September 2011.
• Facebook drove people to the Apple App Store 83 million times in May.
• Facebook drove people to iOS apps 134 million times in May (someone who already has the app and is directed back to it from Facebook.)
• As of May, seven of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and six of the top 10 Android apps have integrated with Facebook.

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