While most people use Facebook as a social networking tool to keep up with friends, rellies & colleagues, Facebook can also help you get things done.A plethora of third party Facebook apps are floating around out there, most of them about as useful as a fish on a bicycle. However, there are some diamonds among the coal - and these are the ones you can use to launch your Facebook profile into the efficiency stratosphere. Keep reading to find out how to customize your Facebook into a productivity launchpad.
Writing helps
Zoho: You can add Zoho to your Facebook profile; this gives you the power to write all your office-ish documents.
MyLists allows you to create simple lists and share them with others.
Files/Storage
Files gives you up to 1 GB of free online space from which to share any kind of file: text, audio, video, etc. (Requires a Box.net account.)
Swap and share files with Divshare, up to 200 MB in size.
Tracking
Get the calendrial (new word, peeps) power of 30 Boxes in your Facebook with the superbly executed 30 Boxes Facebook app.
View your Google Calendar events within Facebook with the GCal app.
Stay on top of the hip and the happenin' with the Upcoming.org application; get info about events before they happen.
Photo Editing & Storage
Use Picasa within Facebook with the Picasa app; you can upload photos, resize them, share images, and more.
Feeds
Read your favorite RSS feeds from within your Facebook profile with MyRSS; offers a few hundred categorized feeds from which to choose from as well as adding your own feeds (doesn't seem to be a bulk import option though - perhaps you can sneak 'em in via OPML?).
Share what you're reading via the Google Reader app; displays only your shared items.
You can also play Scrabble, do fridge magnet poetry and all kinds of other things that eat days & years off our lives.
The helpful bits of this post were thought out by Wendy Boswell, Lifehacker's Weekend Editor
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