New York: Social media giant Facebook has unveiled 60 new ‘timeline’ apps that post updates in real time about what people are doing, and also add updates to people’s Timeline.
“You can now enhance your timeline with apps that help you tell your story, whether you love to cook, eat, travel, run, or review movies,” said Carl Sjogreen, Facebook’s director of platform, in a blog.
“Soon, there will be apps for all types of interests, as more apps will launch over time. Whether you love snowboarding, gardening, hiking, or knitting, or something else, there will be an app for you.”
The handful of companies present at the rollout event in San Francisco pitched their apps as a way to allow users to more fully integrate their social experiences outside of Facebook into their social networking profile.
Someone reading an e-book from Kobo, for example, could highlight passages they want to share with Facebook friends. The app also will automatically track which books they have finished or started reading and connect them with other Facebook users reading the same books.
Users can then choose to delete the action from Facebook if, for example, they would rather not share their love of Twilight vampire movies.
The app provides “another level of engagement” for Rotten Tomatoes users, Estrada said. “It’s pretty exciting.”
Over time, the apps will track almost any aspect of life users prefer from cappuccinos to world travels and catalogue them into the Facebook “Timeline,” a new feature that essentially turns a personal profile into a virtual scrapbook.
With Timeline, Facebook users can easily scroll through years of events to see where a friend spent spring break in 2005, for example, or if they ever uploaded photos from a study-abroad semester in Paris.
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