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Facebook continues to grow, it’s growing so much that it has been the most visited website in the world for a few days bypassing Google, according to Alexa web rankings, it has more then 500 million registered users, making them the best and most used social network, even with the latest privacy polemic that force Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to change the privacy settings. The new world of Apps “Applications” its not just storming the new smart phones like iPhone and Google’s Android phones, its has stormed Facebook as well, not just Games, now Facebook Apps can access your information and give personalized results according to your imformation, a good example of this is the new App Halifax Holiday Matchmaker which access your Facebook info and gives you your perfect dream holiday just for you.

If you ever wonder what would be your dream holiday matching your personality just go to Halifax Holiday Matchmaker and find out your best holiday destination.

Barclaycard new Rollercoaster iPhone App has been a tremendous success in the App Store, after realising the tricky funny Spinning Streaks App, Barclay’s is inspired to set a new standard of FREE Apps with Rollercoaster Extreme, set in on one of the most beautiful metropolitan city’s in the world New York, your will be ridding through skyscrapers in 3D and collecting points through all the course while avoiding bad targets. Waterslide Extreme another barclays App was downloaded over 12 million times. The game is iPhone 4 ready and is available on the App Store today. You can see a demo of the fun game in the video below.

The free app connects to a Viper SmartStart hardware module installed in your car, and controls five basic functions: It’ll start your car, turn on the heat, unlock your doors or trunk, and manage the car alarm. The range is effectively infinite too, since all communication is carried out over cell networks—no line of sight contact necessary, not that the iPhone has the IR hardware for anything like that anyway.

Here’s what Facebook for iPhone 3.0 looks like—pretty nice. Besides the new giant button home screen, you’ll be able to actually RSVP to events and create new photo albums. No push yet, but here’s the full list:

1. The “new” News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

Google has optimized Google Books for the iPhone, just type http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ this is the free version where you can view, search and browse for thousands of free books, with amazon Kindle just around the corner, iPhone can also be a great eBook reader, Stanza has already proved how easy and useful a eBook reader for the iPhone can work very well.

One more milestone on the big success that is the App Store. iPhone and iPod Touch users continue to download applications in massive quantities. The latest figures indicate that there have been more then 300 million applications and games downloaded since the Apps Store debuted in July.