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App lets you see your friends' favorite iPhone apps

As if there aren't enough ways to keep track of your friends' movements (Facebook Places, Google Latitude, Foursquare and Gowalla), and life (Facebook, Facebook, Facebook), now there's a new iPhone app that will let you see which apps your friends are using."Apptitude" is a free program from NoiseToys, the maker of the game Hitmaker. With Apptitude, "it's all about your friends," say the develope
By Suzanne Choney and Suzanne Choney

As if there aren't enough ways to keep track of your friends' movements (Facebook Places, Google Latitude, Foursquare and Gowalla), and life (Facebook, Facebook, Facebook), now there's a new iPhone app that will let you see which apps your friends are using.

"Apptitude" is a free program from NoiseToys, the maker of the game Hitmaker. With Apptitude, "it's all about your friends," say the developers. You can find out which of Apple's more than 350,000 apps your buddies are using and what's most popular. Apptitude requires you to log in to Facebook, so the app can find your friends.

Once you've done that, you can also share your own personal favorite apps.

"The idea is that Apptitude pulls down data from Facebook status updates and Likes, and then sorts them into a feed showing what your mates are currently using," writes Stuart Dredge on CNET's British blog Crave.

"It's a good idea, because it means those friends don't need to be using Apptitude themselves for their apps to show up. That said, it also means the recommendations are passive rather than active — your friends aren't deciding to tell you a particular app is awesome, but rather you're just seeing what they've been using recently."

There are similar apps to Apptitude, including Appsfire, Explor and Chomp.

Apptitude is getting positive praise, but there are some glitches for now that are due to be fixed with the next update, in a week or so.

"We spotted the odd piece of text saying '(null)' too, which is generally a sign that some code's gone awry. Oh, and Apptitude thinks 32,395 of our Facebook friends use the Twitter app for iPhone. We can only dream of being so popular," Dredge said.

— Via TechCrunch

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