Facebook gets its own store

Apple has the App Store, Google has Play and now Facebook has its own version called the App Center. It is touted as a new place for people to find social apps. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps. For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga. Everything has an app detail page, which helps people see what makes an app unique and lets them install it before going to an app. Paid apps are also available (this is currently in beta) which is a simple-to-implement payment feature that lets people pay a flat fee to use an app on Facebook.com. This move makes perfect business sense considering Facebook's upcoming IPO and will inspire even more confidence in prospective investors (in case there were any doubts about the direction FB was headed in).

Considering the number of loyal Facebook followers all around the world, we'd say Apple and Google have something to worry about. It might take a little while for the App Center to catch on since apps have to be re-coded to work on Facebook.com but this is good news for developers since it gives them yet another source of revenue. Now the question is, which apps are we going to see on the App Center!

Check out the announcement on Facebook's developer blog.