Facebook’s New Timeline Apps Introduce New Actions Like “Bought,” “Want” And “Love”

Facebook has partnered up with sixty different startups to add their "stories" to Facebook Timeline, through apps that span different verticals from Food, Fashion to Travel. Already apps like Fab.com, Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest,Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, and TripAdvisor have signed on to share these stories -- which go beyond what we're used to on Facebook.]]>

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Snap Interactive Says Facebook’s New Mobile Channels Are Boosting Its Traffic And Revenue

Facebook launched a new set of social channels for apps to reach mobile users last month, including notifications, search, news feed stories and bookmarks in its mobile web and iPhone apps. We haven't heard too much about the results from developersBut here's a little bit of interesting new data from Snap Interactive, a publicly-traded company that has a popular cross-platform app called Are You Interested. After Facebook rolled out the new features in mid-October, the company said its mobile traffic to that app got a significant boost (although it's not providing specific numbers).The number of average daily logins on its AreYouInterested iPhone app (here) increased by 70 percent between the 30 days before the October 10th Facebook integration and the 30 days after.]]>

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The Planets Are Aligned: Facebook’s Spartan And iPad Projects Set To Launch Early Next Week

Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical "Project Spartan". Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question. And for good reason. That was Project Spartan, we've now confirmed.Whoops.Well, to be fair, I've heard numerous times that they don't actually call it that internally. That may be a name that external developers use. No matter — we all know what I mean. It's the HTML5-based mobile platform that Facebook has been building in secret for months. And now it's done. In fact, it has been done for a while. From what I hear, it has been waiting on one thing...]]>

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