Facebook to launch App Centre
Up till now, the games and apps that you were exposed to came from the Facebook “wall” and were the games your friends were playing. So to put it simply, you found out about a new app once your friends had played it and posted their scores and achievements.
The new Facebook App Centre will have all the apps available for the social networking site under one roof, but it isn’t competing with the big guns like Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store. It’s more like a central location housing all the apps. The apps that will be visible to you however will still be based on the same mechanics as they are now i.e., the apps that are most relevant to you or the apps that are being played by your friends will be highlighted on top.
“Success through the App Centre is tied to the quality of an app,” wrote Facebook employee Aaron Brady in a blog post. “We use a variety of signals, such as user ratings and engagement, to determine if an app is listed in the App Centre.”