Facebook Reveals More Details About Timeline, Including an Approval Process for Open Graph Apps. “We’ve tried to be mindful about the lessons we’ve learned” Facebook Product Manger Manager Carl Sjogreen told me this morning when we sat down to discuss Timeline, the redesigned version of the user profile that debuted at f8 last month. He says that as the product rolls out over the next few weeks, Facebook will be manually reviewing and approving new Open Graph apps to prevent the spammy experience that emerged when temporarily gave third-party applications a place on the profile years ago.
This approach is much more similar to how Apple must approve apps before they enter the App Store than the way Facebook allows canvas apps to launch on its Platform without pre-approval. Sjogreen also revealed more details about Timeline, including that users will be given a curation period to manicure the content displayed in their new profile before it becomes visible to friends. Timeline’s Impact on Privacy Timeline Apps Will Be Reviewed by Facebook. All About the Facebook Timeline Profile, Privacy and News Feed Settings.
New Facebook: What It Means for Local Marketers. Peter Heffring is president and CEO of Expion, a social software company that empowers retailers, brands and agencies to localize and manage their social marketing efforts. Founded in 2009, the company is privately held and headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. If the f8 announcements have taught us anything, it’s that Facebook change is constant. For users, that means getting acquainted with and complaining about new features regularly. For marketers, it means adapting to the changing user behaviors that the new platform will inspire. While it’s too early to gauge specifics, changing Facebook user behavior will likely give local marketers distinct advantages over bigger, national brands. SEE ALSO: 5 Ways Facebook’s New Features Will Fuel Social Shopping On average, my company has seen that local marketers like retailers and franchisees have much higher user engagement rates on Facebook than national chains or brands.
Users Can Designate Brand Posts as Top Stories Local Marketing for Big Brands. Recent Facebook Changes September 28. Timeline The big announcement at f8 last week was a new profile design, called Timeline. Soon we will be able to travel back in time with ease as profiles become a virtual timeline of our lives. “Introducing timeline – a new kind of profile. With timeline, now you have a home for all the great stories you’ve already shared. They don’t just vanish as you add new stuff.” - Facebook blog See a demo of the upcoming Timeline layout here. New News Feed – Another HyperArts Blog Post There have been lots of recent changes to the News Feed, so you can read our recent post about the changes to learn more.
New Smart Friends Lists Finally lists are getting a makeover. It’s also much easier to manage lists, there are lots of organizational tools available on the Lists admin page: “Want to see posts from your closest friends? - Facebook Blog My favorite feature of lists is that you can move specific lists up to the top of your left-column menu into the “Favorites” section. Via Social Media Examiner Facebook. The New Facebook News Feed. The News Feed is a central hub on Facebook where a user goes first, and where they get all of the news from their Friends and Pages in one place. For Page Admins this space is especially important, because many statistics have suggested that the majority of users NEVER return to your Page after becoming a fan. They just see your updates in their News Feed. So these changes in the News Feed interface are important to all Page Admins out there — we need to understand how users are interacting with our stories as they appear on their homepages.
You Can Also Add Pages to Smart Lists! As I was writing this post and researching Smart Lists, I thought to myself, “Can you add Pages to lists?” And guess what? You can now use lists to organize News Feeds from all of the Pages that you have liked. PAGE ADMIN TIP You could create a list just for your Client Pages, or Pages that you Administer. Organize your lists by category, and you can quickly see different News Feeds of specific content: The Ticker. What's New on Facebook - Facebook Help Center. Vadim Lavrusik: What Facebook’s latest updates mean for journalists. Facebook has released several updates in the last month that will affect how journalists use the platform for reporting and storytelling. Many of these new features will make it easier for journalists to distribute their content and keep up with sources of information.
Some of the relevant changes for journalists include Subscribe, which enables readers to subscribe to journalists’ public updates, and a redesigned News Feed — complete with a newly introduced Ticker for real-time updates that makes it easier to keep up with the news that’s most important to you. The new lists also make it easier for you to target updates to a specific group of people, and to see a customized stream of news from them. The updates also include Timeline, which showcases not only the most recent stories from a single user, but also contextualizes who that user is through a historic timeline.
Subscribe is also an easy way for journalists to keep up with sources by subscribing to their updates. Hacker News | Dave Winer on Why You Should Log Out of Facebook. "Out of curiosity, can you describe what sort of 'deep wisdom' you think isn't/cannot be passed along? " I assume you mean, "cannot be passed along Facebook, or other Internet-like communications network". Mindfulness is one example. It's difficult to convey over the internet, and still challenging in person. It's the kind of skill that requires someone present to point out when you're being mindful and when you become distracted. Fear and dealing with fear is the biggest example.
However, it's one thing to watch characters on the screen deal with fear, and quite another to deal with your own. "The pace at which technological change is happening has certainly increased since the industrial revolution, and I presume that has been a major driver of cultural change as well. " Though off-topic, you might find this interesting: I've also asked this series of questions on Quora. As a distraction, I offer this story. Facebook Launches Music Dashboard That Shows What Friends Are Listening to Across Services. Thanks to the integrations Facebook launched with Spotify, Rdio, and many other music services at yesterday’s f8 conference, users are now finding out what their friends are listening to in the home page’s Ticker.
To make it even easier to discover music, Facebook has launched a “Music” dashboard that shows users trending albums, top songs, featured music services, and a stream dedicated to the recent listens of all of a user’s friends. Clicking through to a playlist appears to be one way to activate the dashboard and make its bookmark appear in the home page’s left sidebar, though this direct link also works. The Music dashboard will allow users to actively and efficiently seek discover new music in addition to passively seeing what friends are listening to while browsing the news feed.
Rather than showing bookmarks for individual music partners, it seems that Facebook has decided to aggregate all the services into a single hub. Current Dashboard Features. Facebook Launches a Recommendations Bar to Keep Users Reading on Sites. Building off the now-common Like button that it launched last year, Facebook is introducing a new social plugin today called the Recommendations Bar. It’s designed to deliver additional recommended articles to readers right as they finish each article. While Facebook’s recommendations box plugin has already driven this behavior, there has not been a slick interface to help readers move to a new recommended story once they finish the first recommended one.
In most implementations to date, the user has to click back to find more stories in the recommendations box. The new plugin, at least as it was presented at f8 (it’s not live), resides at the lower right corner of each browser window of a page that has the plugin installed. It floats down as users scroll, basically like how other toolbars work. When a user first loads a page — say, an article on CNN — the bar is collapsed and only shows the option to Like the page. The expanded view also shows an “Add to Timeline” button. All The Details on Facebook's Newest Updates [Recap] Facebook shook up the social media world this week.
The social networking giant released some major updates to its platform, which came as part of Facebook's annual f8 event and also included a few pre-event announcements. From this week's announcements, it's clear Facebook is leading innovation on the social web. Been under a rock or stuck in meetings all week? Look no further. All of this week's major Facebook updates are here for your viewing and learning pleasure. 1. While the News Feed claims to show you stories in real time, there's still a slight lag, and it's not exactly as "real time" as you'd think. Ticker shows you similar stories to what are presented in your News Feed, but it displays these updates instantly, enabling you to quickly identify, jump in, and comment on a story as the conversation is happening. 2. If you haven't logged into Facebook for a while, you'll see more 'top stories' featured at the top. 3. 4. 5. 3 Main Functions of the Subscribe Button 1. 2. 3.
Why Facebook Timeline Is Made For Its Youngest Users [OPINION] When Facebook launched its integrated messages system in November 2010, founder Mark Zuckerberg related an anecdote about his girlfriend's younger sister. He talked about how the young woman and her friends, high school students, used Facebook in a way that was foreign to him.
When he asked them what they used for email, they said they don't really use email — it's too formal; they use Facebook and SMS. It was this story that I couldn't stop thinking about as Zuckerberg revealed the latest iteration of the Facebook profile at f8 on Thursday called Timeline. This was a feature aimed squarely at the generation of users who grew up with Facebook. As Zuckerberg was talking, my former colleague Brenna Ehrlich tweeted out: "new facebook seems like too much work. i do not enjoy scrapbooking, IRL... " My response, "That's what I was just thinking... " The "Everything Platform" It's these users at which Timeline (and the other updates that make sharing experiences even more universal) is aimed.
What Facebook's Changes Mean for Marketers. Facebook's bold list of changes, announced Thursday, will put more pressure on advertisers to come up with compelling content and integrate themselves further into consumers' lives. The big loser? The "Like," which will have a smaller role in marketing, industry analysts say. One big change is that Facebook has added a control in the top right of each story that users can check to unmark a top story. Facebook will use that information over time to automatically edit the feeds. Since users now have more control over their news feeds, brands with boring or irrelevant updates will have lower visibility.
(They will still show up in the Ticker, however.) Marketers, who have been told for years that they're actually publishers now, will have to put that into practice, says Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, a digital marketing firm. How to do that? The emphasis on lifestreaming rather than merely using the platform to amplify a message means that apps will become more of a vehicle for branding. Coming Soon: Facebook’s Automatic “Read” Button.
A few days ago, leading up to f8, we noted that we heard from a source that Facebook would soon be expanding their buttons offerings beyond the Like button. Specifically, we heard that “Read” “Listen” and “Watch” buttons were coming. But today during the f8 keynote, Facebook didn’t have anything to say about those. But that doesn’t mean they’re not coming. Actually, they are. I had the chance to sit down with Facebook CTO Bret Taylor after the keynote and he told me that a new “Read” button would be coming within the next couple of weeks. Unlike the Like button which gives you a way to explicitly share individual pieces of content, this Read plug-in (and presumably, Watch, Listen, etc, plugins) would allow third-parties to add a single button to their site to enable some of the automatic actions Facebook unveiled today.
To be clear, this button will be totally opt-in for users. How To: Get Started with the Open Graph. At Facebook's core is the social graph; people and the connections they have to everything they care about. Historically, Facebook has managed this graph and has expanded it over time as we launch new products (photos, places, etc.). In 2010, we extended the social graph, via the Open Graph protocol, to include websites and pages that people liked throughout the web.
We are now extending the Open Graph to include other actions and objects created by apps and enabling these apps to integrate deeply into the Facebook experience. This “How-To” video walks you through our tutorial showing you step-by-step how to build an Open Graph app that allows users to publish stories about cooking recipes. We are really excited about the new class of apps that are now made possible. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments below. F8′s Big Facebook Changes: The Timeline, Ticker, News Feed and Apps. Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and others announced revolutionary and supercool changes to Facebook. According to Zuck in his introduction to the keynote: A record 500 million people used Facebook the same day. We’re connected now. The next era will be defined by the social apps that use these connections.The profile is the heart of the Facebook experience, and people invest a lot in their profile. The biggest new element today is timeline, which Facebook has been working on for a year, although the apps changes and implications of the new GraphRank are huge as well.
Timeline is the story of your life, in a single page The timeline is about stories.A new class of apps will work with timeline, the ticker, and the news feed.This is about a new way to express yourself, and as you can see, it’s much richer visually. And as Chris Cox, vice president of products, said, infographics have become very important — visualizing huge amounts of data. To add stuff to your timeline: Facebook Revamps User Interface. Facebook’s Smart Lists: Real Friends Again. This guest post was written by Joe Green, the Founder and President of Causes. Causes is the largest online platform for activism and one of the original Facebook Applications. Green’s approach to building online tools is rooted in his offline experience as a grassroots political organizer for federal, state, and local campaigns.
Disclosure: Green was an early advisor to Facebook and has a small amount of stock. Facebook’s recently-launched friend lists are the most important change to the service since platform, and possibly since News Feed. With them, Facebook further jumps ahead as the truest representation of who people are and how they are connected to others. To understand why this is so important, it’s helpful to look back at Facebook’s history. Given the virality of many of the apps on Facebook (not to mention the staggering growth of the service itself), it might come as a surprise to some just how carefully Facebook controlled its expansion in its early days. Does Facebook’s News Feed Punish Advertisers (Yet)? Facebook Allows Users to Comment on Pages Without Liking Them, Adds Friend Activity Tab to Pages. Newspaper-Inspired Facebook Layout Will Deliver More Interesting Stories & A Real-Time Ticker.
Facebook Combines Most Recent and Top News Into a Single Feed, Adds a Real-Time News Ticker. Facebook Sends Users An Email To Tell Them It’s Going To Send Them Less Email. You've Heard the Rumors. Here are a Few Predictions That "Just Make Sense" For Facebook's F8. Report: Here’s what Facebook will announce at f8 on Thursday. Facebook Changes 9.16.11 – Subscribe, Recommendations, Usernames, Share + Facebook Subscribe Button: What It Means for Each Type of User. The Complete Guide To Facebook’s Subscribe Button.