Facebook timeline & open graph

Facebook Starts Rollout Of Graph Search For Posts, Comments, Check-Ins To Reveal The Past And Present. What’s everyone saying about Breaking Bad?

What about just my friends? What do my old photo comments say about me? A trillion posts full of this info start getting unlocked today as Facebook begins rolling out Graph Search for posts to a small subset of US English users. It will allow us to see what the world thinks of anything, but could also dredge up the past, defeating ‘privacy by obscurity’. Facebook Is Done Giving Its Precious Social Graph To Competitors. Of all Facebook’s data sets, it’s the social graph that’s truly unique.

It’s spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it’s sick of handing over your friend list to competitors. This week it cut off both Twitter’s new photo app Vine and messaging app Voxer from Find Friends, Facebook’s API that lets you connect with Facebook friends on other apps. But this could backfire. First Came Facebook Disconnect; Now, Open Graph Redirect, A Plug-In To Read FB Open Graph Links Without The Apps. A new Chrome plug-in that lets users bypass the installation of Facebook apps, but still consume the content your friends are sharing via those Facebook-enabled apps, has been picking up users at a solid clip since going live only a week ago.

Facebook Now Lets You “Follow” Someone In Any App, Get Their Updates In News Feed Where The Ads Are. Ads, not payments, are the future of Facebook monetizing mobile, but it needs content to show them beside.

The new Follow action announced today could deliver that content by letting you follow someone in a mobile app, and then sending the updates you’d normally see in that app back to your ad-laden news feed. More content -> more engagement and return visits -> more ad impressions, more money, and more reason for investors to buy. It will send referral traffic to developers, and it’s actually convenient for users too. Why trapse from site to site and app to app when you can see everything your friends are doing everywhere, all from your news feed?

You won’t. How Facebook Follow Works Facebook integrated something similar last week with the Like action, which lets developers take their in-app “heart”, “favorite”, “thumbs up” and other buttons that express affinity, and have them publish stories about the activity to Facebook. [Facebook] Pour être lu par tous ses amis, il faudra payer ? - FrenchWeb.fr  Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups [EXCLUSIVE] Introducing the App Center - Développeurs Facebook. Today, we’re announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps.

The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps. All canvas, mobile and web apps that follow the guidelines can be listed.

All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch. Facebook's Open Graph Has Been a Huge Success. When Facebook’s “Like” button got massive traction, it became clear that people would respond to engaging with and reacting to simple actions that you take on a daily basis.

That’s exactly what Facebook banked on when it launched its Open Graph and Timeline initiatives, which in essence allow apps to share all types of content with any action phrase that they can imagine. For content publishers and app developers, coming up with new ways to articulate what your friends are doing within their framework in a social setting like Facebook is turning into increased engagement and adoption.

Facebook Adds Action Links to Timeline Apps. MemeKit Transforms Your Facebook Photos Into Memes. Has Timeline Increased Engagement on Facebook? While the average Facebook user may still not have made the switch to the social network’s new Timeline format, as of March 30, 2012, all brand pages were required to do so, and some brands have been seeing increased engagement as a result.

Social media measurement company Simply Measured looked at 15 brand pages that were early adopters of the Timeline format and found that average engagement on brand posts (i.e., comments and “likes”) rose 46% in the three weeks after the switch compared to the three weeks before. Facebook Timeline Rollout Starts Today, First In New Zealand. Facebook has announced that it will begin rollout of Timeline, starting with New Zealand.

If successful there it will release the profile redesign elsewhere. The country was likely picked because it speaks English, which eases feedback processing, and isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the user base as some other countries. It’s been 2.5 months since Facebook unveiled the Timeline profile redesign at f8 and said the rollout would begin shortly. However, possibly due to product tweaks and a lawsuit from Timelines.com, until today the feature was only available to developers, or those who pose as them. Facebook will have to explain the privacy ramifications of Timeline very carefully. Facebook Launches “Listen With” For Turntable.fm-style Simultaneous Music and Chat. Look out Turntable.fm, Facebook today launches its own simultaneous music listening group chat room feature.

New “Listen With” buttons in Chat and news feed stories allow you to select a friend as your personal DJ. When clicked, you’ll instantly launch Spotify or Rdio and start hearing whatever that friend plays in real-time. Other friends can also join your group chat listening room where you can discuss and rave over what you’re hearing, just like if you were listening together in person. Facebook to Introduce Apps Based on Open Graph, Gestures [REPORT] Facebook will introduce apps based on its new Open Graph and Gestures platforms at an event Wednesday in San Francisco, according to a report.

The apps will let users "frictionlessly" share based on actions other than "like," "read" or "watch," according to AllThingsD, which cites "sources" in the report. Reps from Facebook could not be reached for comment. Facebook announced the upgrade to Open Graph at the f8 conference in San Francisco in September. The move was prompted by Facebook's assertion that the Like button constrained sharing because it was an implicit endorsement of content. With the Launch of New Timeline Actions, Facebook Becomes the Anti-App Store. SAN FRANCISCO — It’s getting bigger. In its ever-expanding quest to conquer more of the internet, Facebook opened up its platform to more application partners on Wednesday, allowing developers small and large the chance to integrate their apps with the social giant’s massive network. Over 60 new app partners will lead the launch, spanning areas like travel (AirBnB), fitness (Runkeeper), and photos (Color). Pinterest and 60 Others Demo Open Graph Sites + Apps That Auto-Publish To Facebook.

Facebook’s Open Graph app launch event is underway here in San Francisco, where over 60 new Open Graph websites and apps are either demo-ing or launching remotely. The apps can publish user activity back to Timeline and Ticker, even from offsite. Launch partners include Pinterest, Ticketmaster, Gogobot, Rotten Tomatoes, and many others. Carl Sjogreen, Facebook project manager, also announced that Facebook will now begin approving apps from third-party developers who aren’t partners. The Open Graph platform was first announced at f8 in September. Facebook intros 60 new Open Graph partners, opens to all. SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook's making its Open Graph initiative a little more open. At an event here, this evening the company announced a crop of 60 new partners that have integrated their applications with Open Graph, as well as promising to approve new applications that make use of it.

The feature lets Facebook developers add real world actions to their applications, taking Facebook's sharing features beyond links and liking items to sharing what exactly that application does. Some of the early demo products that came with that introduction were Spotify, Netflix, and RDIO, with user actions in those apps showing up as "listened" or "watched. " Joining those tonight are some 60 companies including TripAdvisor, Ticketmaster, Digg, Kobo, Zynga, Rotten Tomatoes, and Buzzfeed. The company says these extend into categories Facebook did not originally include in its launch announcement. These Apps Will Come to Facebook via Open Graph. Facebook is currently holding a media event where it just announced its Open Graph program which has begun life with an initial 60 developer partners. Through the partners, Facebook will bring more than 60 apps to its users’ timelines, and the company has now released a list of the major apps that will be available initially.

Given that this is Facebook, you can bet that this list will be added to very soon, and with some of the premier names on the Web; already you can see Pinterest, LivingSocial, Airbnb, eBay, Digg, Foursquare, Ticket Master and Monster are amongst those supported on launch. TRAVEL * Gogobot * Airbnb * TripAdvisor​ * Wipolo * Where I’ve Been FOOD * Foodspotting * Cookpad * Snooth (wine) * Urbanspoon * Yummly * ​Foodily SHOPPING / FASHION * Pose * Pinterest * Polyvore * Oodle * Fab.com * eBay * Giftrocket * Payvment * Livingsocial.

Facebook’s New Timeline Apps Introduce New Actions Like “Bought,” “Want” And “Love” Ticketmaster’s New Facebook App Recommends Concerts From Your Listening Activity. Of all the new Open Graph apps launched tonight, Ticketmaster’s new Facebook experience is the most impressive. Sure it can share that you’ve “bought” tickets, but lots of apps have similar publishing functionality. What makes Ticketmaster’s app cool is that it pulls your Facebook profile’s music app activity from services such as Spotify or Rdio, and recommends nearby concerts of artists you actually listen to, not just those you say you Like. Ticketmaster has come a long way in the two years since Nathan Hubbard became CEO following its merger with LiveNation.

It now shows you its service fees up front rather than tacking them on as you checkout. This pissed off artists and venues who thought it would scare away sales, but Ticketmaster did it in the name of transparency. Executive VP of ecommerce Kip Levin tells me that for a long time the company was scapegoat for all of the live event industry’s problems. Make friends online and enjoy free webcam chats. Social Video Facebook App Rounds Raises $3M From Verizon, Tim Draper. Rounds, a social video and gaming application, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Verizon Investments with Rhodium and DFJ’s Tim Draper participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $5.5 million. Rounds offers online experiences that mimic real-life personal encounters.