LivingSocial Facebook app lets users recommend iPhone games

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LivingSocial has launched an innovative Facebook application that lets people show off the iPhone apps that they own to friends.

Called LivingSocial: iPhone Apps, it's a spin-off from the main LivingSocial site, which lets users list their favourite books, movies, music, games and other categories.

It's brand new (132 active users at the time of writing), and works really well. After installing it to your profile, you use its search tool to find the apps and games that you use on your iPhone, and can then assign them ratings and write reviews.

Whenever you add something new, it appears in your Facebook news feed, so friends can see what you're playing or using. There's also a widget showing your current apps that sits on your profile page (right)

If an app isn't in the LivingSocial catalogue, you can add it yourself (a good reason for iPhone game developers to install the app and add their own titles, if they're not on there).

Other Facebook users can click through to buy the apps from the App Store, making LivingSocial a potentially powerful discovery and recommendation tool for iPhone games.