How to Create a Successful Facebook Widget :Business Lessons From the Widget Masters When Facebook opened its platform to third-party developers in late May, mom-and-pop shop widget makers from California to Turkey cropped up everywhere to capitalize on Facebook's fast-growing user base of 52 million people. Now, only six months later, there are 7,000 applications in the Facebook directory, and more than 100 are added each day. More on CIO.com Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users in Public bookmarkswith bizfacebookwidget