Facebook adds new Timeline apps
World’s largest social networking site, Facebook is adding a host of new apps for the users using Timeline in order to encourage users to share more on the network.
The site will now have apps for sharing favorite restaurants, travel spots, movies, online deals and others besides apps for music, news and video, which has been available some time.
The company added sixty applications that will allow users to publish information automatically to Facebook. Facebook launched the new apps at a news conference at a fashionable night club. Several of these new apps are newer versions of existing online services or mobile apps.
Apps like Foodspotting and Foodily for food post updates on Facebook profile of a user when he or she updates digital diary of meals. Ticketmaster publishes information on Facebook when the user buys a ticket.
Facebook might also create monthly personalized reports that offer details on how the apps were used by the users. Engineers at Facebook have developed a mathematical algorithm, which will analyze the types of posts that are prioritized by a person on the profile page, according to Facebook CTO Bret Taylor.
The system will try to predict what the user is most interested in based on past choices. The users will be able to manage posts to their profiles in order to maintain control over posts. "People care a lot about the way their profile looks," Taylor added. The new features are only available to the users who have enabled Facebook Timeline.