WorldCat Applications in Facebook Profiles

Changes to the Facebook profile have caused a lot of confusion for the people and companies that have applications on the Facebook platform.

The new profile has advantages and disadvantages which have been widely discussed. I like the new format, but I am not happy that I have to do more work to make use of the applications I used so easily in the past.

For instance I have added the WorldCat in Facebook application and the CiteMe application. But neither of those applications appears in my profile. So I tried to re-add each app. That didn't work because Facebook knows that I already have those applications. I just can't find them.

Sound familiar? Here's how you fix that.

First go to your Facebook profile by clicking the "Home" button.

Next, click "Edit" on the Application box.

Now you'll see a bunch of your applications and five options for displaying those applications.

Your options are:

• Authorized applications
• Bookmarked applications
• Applications you've added to your profile
• Applications that have Wall permissions
• Applications that have additional permissions

If you want the application to appear in the application box (step 2 above) on your profile page, you have to add it to the Bookmarks list of applications. But before you can do that you have to find that application.

It might be in the list of authorized applications, or bookmarked applications or one of the other five lists mentioned above. Click each one of those and look for the WorldCat and CiteMe applications. They will look like this:

and:

You need to click the edit button and then you'll see the Edit Application Settings:

You can change the settings if you like, but the important stuff is on the "Bookmark" tab or link. Click that and you'll see the option to bookmark the applications. Just click the box on that screen as shown here and click "Okay":

Do that for the WorldCat application and the CiteMe application. Then go back to your profile using the "Home" button. The two applications should appear on the right-hand side of your profile page in the Application box. If you can't see them there, click the "more" link:

And then you should see something like this:

You can click and drag these icons up to the top where they will appear in the Application box without clicking "more." And then you can get to your WorldCat and CiteMe apps quickly!

But is that what you wanted?

What I want is to show off my favorite application in the tabs on my public profile view, like this:

But we can't do that right now because we need to make some changes to the applications to support this new profile function. Give us a bit of time. When we make the changes, we'll post again here on our blog or on the WorldCat in Facebook application discussion page and the CiteMe application discussion page.