Some of the best things about Facebook are the Facebook applications. Facebook users have a wide variety of really cool Facebook applications to enhance their Facebook experience.

Here are the top 10 most active Facebook applications:

1. Super Wall – The Super Wall application is an enhancement to Facebook’s original wall feature. Super Wall allows Facebook users to write messages, post photos and post videos on their wall.

2. Funwall – Funwall is very similar to Super Wall, but it allows for tagging photos and embedding YouTube videos.

3. Top Friends – The Top Friends application allows Facebook users to create a widget with up to 32 friends photos. By clicking on a friend’s photo you are taken directly to their profile page.

4. Video – Facebook Video allows you to publish videos to Facebook and send video messages to your friends.

5. SuperPoke – The SuperPoke Facebook application allow users to send enhanced pokes to their friends. Facebook pokes are a way of telling your friends that you are thinking of them.

6. Flixter Movies – Flixter Movies is a cool application that allows you to see what movies your friends’ like and how their taste compares to yours.

7. Are You Interested??? – This application allows you to ask people the question “Are you interested??? Why this is popular I am not sure.

8. iLike – The iLike Facebook application lets you add music and videos to your profile, dedicate songs to your friends, and see what concerts your friends are going to. This is a nice way of finding cool music.

9. X Me – This application allows your friends to do things to you. For example, you can add a button to your profile page to allow your friends to give you a hug.

10. Bumper Sticker – This is a really cool application. With the Bumper Sticker Facebook application you can create a bumper sticker and stick it to a friend’s profile page.

Socialmedia.biz wrote a post yesterday stating that the GOP hopefuls were feeling uneasy about today’s CNN YouTube Debate format. The politicians should not feel uneasy, but instead ashamed. More than the politicians, the media should be ashamed at how it has trivialized itself throughout these 2008 election presidential debates.

Why would a YouTube fan utter this blasphemy? Well because these YouTube debates are a joke. Do we really think that any weight should be given to how a politician responds to these silly questions? Politics is serious, but instead we are expected to sit around and gaze at a circus event that CNN calls a debate.

Debates should be real debates. Each politician should be given time to talk intelligently about the issues. The candidates should probe each other as to their beliefs. They should be forced to answer follow on question. Instead, we get 15 second sound bites that any person prep’d in advance could dodge.

The media has trivialized its role in our democracy. You could watch the 24 hour cable news program for 24 hours straight and not learn more than a few sound bites about the issues that we are facing as a nation. This is not healthy for our society.

If the media wants to be taken seriously, the media better start treating itself seriously.

Techloaf.com has just released its latest edition of the Best of the Web 2.0 – Blog Carnival. I am happy to note that my review of Jango has been included.

So that you can keep up to date with your web2.0 news, here are the other great articles:

presents 0tutor.com: Glossy-Orange-web-2-button posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog, saying, “How to make a stylish and glossy orange web 2.0 button adobe with photoshop tutorial”

tokyor presents FlyakiteOSX, transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP to Mac OS X(Free) posted at sharemicrosoft.com, saying, “A lot of freeware download”
tokyor presents WinMerge, Visual differencing and merging of text files freeware posted at sharemicrosoft.com.
Cassanova presents XHTML/CSS newbies paradise tutorial posted at SEO is always welcome !, saying, “best tutorial ever !!”
Everything Else

presents Expired domain names a delicate business posted at seo Online marketing blog.
Oliver Muoto presents The ?Killer App? Myth and the Rise of ?Next Big Thing? posted at vFlyer Blog, saying, “My take on killer apps”

Helpful Hints

Craig Andrews presents Make Money Blogging posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “Please visit my blog for “Real Internet Business Solutions” and more!
Thank you, Craig Andrews”

Jay Deragon presents Feeding the Free Factors posted at A Relationship Economy….. With WHom & What, saying, “The rules of The Relationship Economy are driven by the theory that free will inevitably illuminate all kinds of beneficial attributes that were never visible before. “Free” has long been a taboo price point. Perhaps because it has been forbidden, many low-hanging commercial fruit are waiting to be plucked by giving the free serious consideration.

What say you?”
Luke Houghton presents 6 ways to write a list posted at Luke Houghton, saying, “Web readers are notoriously short with their time. Why not write information that can be read quickly and easily in a list format? Lists are very popular on social bookmarking sites.”
Gley Yahya presents How to Use Article Marketing the Right Way posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, “There are may free methods you can use to promote your website, blog or product. But article marketing is the most powerful way of all! It can benefit your business in many ways that no other marketing is able to accomplish.”
Chris Harris presents When should your small business outsource? posted at New venture outsourcing blog.

Ruchir presents Breathe Life into Your Posts & Make Them Look Beautiful posted at TechnoMoney.
The Latest

Jay Deragon presents Business Uses of Social Technologies posted at A Relationship Economy….. With WHom & What, saying, “While their use is still largely limited to less-than-mission-critical purposes, online social networking services are becoming more popular for business purposes.

Much of the current emphasis seems to focus on limited application to businesses systemically rather approaches seem to be limited to “silos” of thinking related to recruitment and branding.

Businesses may be missing a larger picture of value yet to be tapped and maybe even yet to be envisioned.”

Yves Bourgeois presents Next Generation of Social Networking posted at SocialNetSavvy, saying, “Yesterday, I attended an event sponsored by the WebGuild in the Silicon Valley, at Google HQ. The main topics were 1- Growing trends in social networking, 2- What are the key ingredients to a successful social network? 3- What is the best way to monetize advertising within social networks? 4- What characterizes Web 3.0? 5- When will we see Mobile 2.0?”

Alex Schoenfeldt presents posted at Advice Network Founders Blog, saying, “Our contests gives you a chance to win a MacBook, and it promotes your business too. Your article will be a good inbound link, and if you blog about this, let me know and I will link to you from my blog too.

Starting today, Advice Network, will be running an ‘article writing contest’, and we’d like to offer you and your readers an invitation-only chance to enter. If you could post about the contest, I’d really appreciate it. Let me know and I will link back to your from my blog (www.advicenetowork.com/blog ) right away.

We are looking for professionals and enthusiasts to write advice articles for the average person in three main categories, real estate, weddings, and running a business.

The winner of the best advice article will receive a new MacBook laptop. And just for entering, they’ll receive a 4-month vendor listing on AdviceNetwork.com, absolutely free. There is no fee to enter the contest, and we don’t require anyone to purchase a vendor listing.

To enter the contest, click here

If you want to learn more about Advice Network, click here

Thanks again. We are excited to hear from you and your blog readers.

Regards,
Alex Schoenfeldt”

Fred presents Jango: Putting Social Into Internet Radio posted at Newest on the Net, saying, “Here is a review of a cool new social Internet Radio site.”
Jay Deragon presents The New Order of Business posted at A Relationship Economy….. With WHom & What, saying, “As businesses enter the social web having a clear path and objectives will be critical. Here is an outline on “how to” and the planning process.”
Kenney Jacob presents Web 2.0 | Disruptive Technologies posted at Disruptive Technologies.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Looking For A Place To Live? 7 Ways RottenNeighbor.com Can Help…. Maybe. posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “A real estate mashup.”

Marco Richter presents Top Blogs – MarcoRichter.net posted at MarcoRichter.net.

I am thankful for not being at the mall this black Friday.  Instead, I get to sit at my computer and read some great articles on social media.  Here are some great social media articles to keep you out of the malls.

• 10 Misconceptions Why SEO is Better Than SMO Refuted – Check out this great article from SEO 2.0.  Tad responds to Wayne Smallman’s article touting the advantags of seo over smo.
• Have Bloggers Become Social Media Abusers? – Monika has written a great guide for how to properly use social media.
• Social Media Marketing in A Nutshell – Maki has written a great overview of social media marketing.
• Del.icio.us: An Underrated Link Building Tool – Vandelay Website Design has written a great overview of my favorite social bookmarking site, del.icio.us.  It also provides some great information on how del.icio.us has helped Vandelay Website Design to build links and traffic.
• StumbleUpon Made This Blog’s Traffic Explode – a1-fan-fun has written a great account of his first experience with StumbleUpon.  For new bloggers, StumbleUpon makes it fun to blog.  No longer do new bloggers have to write knowing that no one will see their articles.
• Technorati – Now Completely Useless – I hope that Lars is wrong about Technorati (I love their authority ranking).  However, Lars raises some great points about Technorati’s decline.
• Digg Vs. StumbleUpon – And the Winner Is …. – Work N Play has written an interesting comparison of Digg versus stumbleupon.
• Nine Uses For Social Bookmarking – WebUpon has some great ideas for the uses of social bookmarking sites.
• 4 Types of Social Media Marketers and the 1 You Never Hear About – Tanya Ferrell has a great article hear analyzing the who are social media marketers.
• Don’t Want To Take the Dive Into Social Media?  That’s Ok, Just Get Your Feet Wet – Shana Albert has a great guide here for getting started with social media.
• 10 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Sucks.. – Andy Beard writing at Collective Thoughts has 10 tips for how to properly plan a social media marketing campaign.

I hope that you enjoy these articles.  Please tell me of other great articles about social media that you have read this past week.

Facebook has finally decided to remove the “is” from its status update form.  No longer will people have to use butchered grammar when updating their status.

I am very glad the shackles are being removed.  But, I do find it amusing that the pesty “is” word is causing problems again.  I had flashbacks Clint/Lewinsky when I first read about Facebook’s decision.