As mainstream media companies and new media companies alike turn to Facebook as a distribution network for their content, Current.com is the latest to create an application on the popular social network. While Current isn't necessarily considered a mainstream media conglomerate, it is a new media way of getting your news information with a somewhat mainstream appeal, and it too needs to take advantage of as many channels as it can to get its content spread across the web.
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One of the last major updates to Current's website, aside from a name change, was a new approach to the way in which news was presented to users, and how these users can in turn interact with the news found throughout the site. The result was a digg-like voting option which lets popular stories get promoted. This format is being carried over to Current's Facebook application, which determines the popularity of the shared content by voting amongst friends. I hope you have friends with somewhat similar taste as you!
This mini-recommendation system is one that takes full advantage of the social utility that Facebook and its "social graph" can extend to applications, making the interactions within its application mostly independent, front an interactive standpoint, from what's going on at Current's main website.