Facebook has reengineered the profile page into
what they are now calling "Timeline". Timeline allows you to create
your own life-story timeline. It resolves the problem of activity and
experiences on our current profile page that falls off at the bottom of the
page, but is still very important in telling our story. Timeline allows you to
capture all that activity and present it in chronological order with as much or
as little detail as you would like to present. The comparison was made to
scrapbooking but on a digital platform. I really like Timeline and I think it
will definitely revolutionize social networking. At first, FB users will balk
and complain, but as the newness settles in, I think the experience will be a
good one.
The other major announcement was the new class of
social applications (App's) that can now be developed as a result of changes to
Facebook's Open Graph. These changes will allow developers to create app's that
will integrate with the user’s social experience on Facebook. If a user
downloads a music app, and proceeds to listen to their favorite band, others
that are part of the user’s network will be able to see what band the user is listening
to and listen to the same musical experience in real time. The dynamics that
this creates is that you will start to discover other individuals who have
similar musical taste, but even better, you will now have the opportunity to experience
different musical genres that will open you up to new musical experiences.
These app's will be available for music, movies, TV, and news immediately.
These app's will be driven by "pattern aggregation" and as a result
will reveal and share a lot of similarities among users. Each user will be in
total control of what they share and who they share it with.
Facebook feels that as a society we are at the
crossroad of technology and social problems. Timeline and Open Graph
applications will definitely take our complete social networking experience to
another level. A lot of what was discovered was attributed to "the spirit
of accidents." These are innovations that are birthed as a result of
stumbling into something and pursuing it until it reveals itself fully.
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Written by Terence H. Biggs, Jr.
Founder & President
Marketplace Dynamics, LLC
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