Facebook brings 60 new partners into the fold to develop applications for the social network – Part 1

Facebook unveiled Open Graph at F8 2011last fall, which is now available for developers interested in building apparently any lifestyle application they wish.

Facebook is strongly supporting its Timeline project with two major product announcements.

First, Facebook has signed over 60 new partners that are integrating with the social network to help the users to interact with their friends and family, covering everything from favourite food places, gyms and travel plans.

The user will now be able to share nearly any type of information or activity online, provided thath he has flexibility on his privacy settings, without actually having to visit Facebook.

Secondly, Facebook will be approving and rejecting all the applications, towing the line of Apple in their AppStore. The apps that want to integrate with Facebook’s Timeline via Open Graph, starting immediately, will have to run the gauntlet of the scrutiny for approval.

Facebook first unveiled Timeline and Open Graph at F8 2011 in September with a handful of media partners, however, the attractive home page interface was made public in December, which has seem huge success.

The list of new partners include the likes of tech giants Ticketmaster, but Mark Zuckerberg is also interested in the boasting startups such as Zynga, Airbnb, Foodspotting, and Pinterest on the site. Zynga is already a famous app developer who has pulled off games like the Farmville.

Facebook tried to be reserved at revealing details before the full launch of these applications and few details were unveiled that were not already disclosed on the Facebook Developers Blog prior to the reception.

Earlier on Wednesday, Facebook offered more information about a new privacy setting that allows users to control who can see their app activity on the social network.

This also includes the addition of headline and description areas people can learn more about apps before installing them. You might have already run into some of the new privacy options put in place, including permission requests about both posting to Facebook and managing your events for you in advance.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 19 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.