Facebook have annouched that they'll be launching new Open Graph apps (or Gesture apps if you prefer) this Wednesday at an event in San Fransisco, all in aid of their ongoing effort to get you sharing more content on the web with your friends.
The new apps, developed by outside developers, are designed to share your online actions to your timeline - all of which is done seamlessy for you without any prompts. All you have to do is agree to one set of permissions upfront, then sit back and watch your Facebook timeline get littered with little messages about what you're doing.
Since the announcement of the new Facebook timeline and Open Graph apps back in September, posting messages like "Joe is listening to Coldplay Paradise" or "Fred is reading the frontpage" from your apps has been possible.
For developers, this meant the following changes:
- Apps no longer have to keeing asking for permissions to post content. Apps can ask once at the beginning, and then post in the background without further prompting the user.
- Updates made in the Open Graph now appear in a users' timeline automatically, but not in the main news feed unless it's labelled as "important".
- Users can share more relevent actions and experiences such as "I'm listening to..." or "I'm reading..." in their timeline, rather than just cluttering up their news feed with uninformative messages like "Tom liked...".
We'll be at the Facebook Developers' Garage tomorrow night in London waiting to see if they'll make a similar announcement, so if you see us make sure you pop over and say hi!
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