Social Digest: Week of September 19

Facebook Moves Beyond “Share” Buttons

Facebook has, once again, changed the social experience with the extension of their Open Graph functionality to integrate arbitrary actions and objects created by 3rd party apps into the Facebook experience.

This means you will not need to choose to Share or Like your online actions,, rather the Open Graph will automatically share it to your Facebook page for you.

Reference: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/button-down/

Yahoo and Facebook to offer Socially Curated News

The new Yahoo News feature, whose release coincides with the launch of the new Facebook Open Graph, is an attempt to infuse social into the news curation and discovery process.

Once users opt into the service, they will be able to see what news stories their friends have read on both Facebook and Yahoo News.

Reference: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/facebook-yahoo-news/

Facebook’s Timeline Design

This week at Facebook’s f8 event in San Francisco, they announced several changes to the platform. Perhaps the biggest was the launch of their radical new profile design – the Timeline.

Timeline will turn your profile into a colorful, easily searchable timeline of your entire Facebook existence. The Timeline will officially go live in a few weeks.

Reference: http://www.readwriteweb.com/