We all know Facebook has captured the attention of internet users. In fact, this interesting social networking giant has encouraged the handful of people who hadn't yet dabbled with the net to jump on and 'network'.

Facebook currently has 175 million registered users, who log in and view things others in their network decide to share - including photos, videos and dialogue with others they are connected to.

Among the successes of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his team of tech geeks have been their ability to educate the masses on certain web technologies. We web developers and marketers have been trying to add the acronym 'app', short for WEB APPLICATION (aka web software), into the dictionaries of public and business for many years now, and Facebook has managed to do this seamlessly.

By offering interesting applications, from games to useful tools, to their users, Facebook has brought this 'app' term to the fore.

The beauty of Facebook's set-up for developers and entrepreuners is that it is open source. This means that developers like us can develop apps and earn fame by promoting it to Facebook users. What Zuckerberg and Facebook gain from this is they keep developers with smart ideas using their platform rather than encouraging them to create their own and potentially compete with the social networking website, which began as a way to get Harvard campus students communicating online, and hasn't stopped growing since.

We at KayWeb have been receiving a growing number of requests from people who want to develop Facebook Applications (Facebook Apps). Some just have good ideas and aren't interested in the potential financial rewards, but most are businesses who are trying to take advantage of the interactivity Facebook provides by developing an application that could provide the gateway between the social folk on Facebook and the products/services their businesses provide.

In the last month, KayWeb has received 18 proposal requests for Facebook Applications for businesses, and this list will continue to grow!