Christmas Titles Show Up on This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Apps
While a new game called Monster Galaxy leads this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, the Christmas apps are the real story, including . With just eight days left until the big day, we’re bracing for a great many more apps than have shown up so far.
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Monster Galaxy is an interesting new game, from the creators of tween virtual world Gaia Online. Anyone familiar with Pokemon will recognize the monster-collecting theme, but the game also lacks the strong time-based mechanics and monetization characteristic of most Facebook titles.
Apps like Merry Christmas to All My Friend are typically as bare-bones as possible, focusing on either greetings or gifting. My Year in Photos is in a somewhat different category, going through an entire year of the user’s activity to pick out the highlights — in this case, top photos, or down at number seven, My Top Followers.
Most of the remaining apps are pretty typical. Several are by AppBank, an app developer that has created hundreds of apps over the past year with varying levels of success, this week being one of its better ones of late.
