1. Social Digest: Week of September 19
Facebook’s Timeline Design
Facebook Moves Beyond Yahoo and Facebook to
“Share” Buttons
offer Socially Curated News
This week at Facebook’s f8 event in Facebook has, once again, changed The new Yahoo News feature,
San Francisco, they announced the social experience with the whose release coincides with the
several changes to the platform. extension of their Open Graph launch of the new Facebook Open
Perhaps the biggest was the launch functionality to integrate arbitrary Graph, is an attempt to infuse
of their radical new profile design – actions and objects created by 3rd social into the news curation and
the Timeline.
party apps into the Facebook discovery process.
experience.
Timeline will turn your profile into Once users opt into the service,
a colorful, easily searchable This means you will not need to they will be able to see what
timeline of your entire Facebook choose to Share or Like your online news stories their friends have read
existence. The Timeline will actions,, rather the Open Graph on both Facebook and Yahoo
officially go live in a few weeks.
will automatically share it to your News.
Facebook page for you.
Reference: http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Reference: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/facebook-
yahoo-news/
Reference: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/button-
down/