Facebook will soon allow its users integrate all of their music, media and the actions of style of life and the interactions with their profiles, Mark Zuckerberg at f8 Conference of Facebook announced yesterday. Linking profiles to services such as Spotify will allow users to complete their own curated "Timeline", sort of friends may see their media activities both as individuals and aggregate on their entire network, a gesture which will explode the amount of content on the site.
The new arrangement is part of two new initiatives for Facebook, which is the chronology. Users can fill out their deadlines with the two content from other services - for example, in an article "loved" on Ars Technica or played game - and the "real world" activities such as photos or status update. The real world content can be filtered by date in the chronology, so users can complete their history on the site with everything that happened before Facebook existence: moves in a new city, first as a baby, or each relationship words simple break before 2004.
Once in place, the timeline will be the new News Feed with updates to the friends of streaming past. But everything will be in the timeline: small updates, such as listening to the friends of music, can be relegated to the Ticker, the integrated online friends/status deployed Wednesday update bar. Users will be able to choose the activities that are important enough to appear in their timelines.
Zuckerberg has also focused on the new use of verbs in a calendar, which will allow people to sort their friends activities in different ways. For example, with an update of reading "Casey Johnston is watching Veronica March for the millionth time," users can click two "look" to see what friends remains display at the time, or "Veronica March" to see a list of other friends who love Veronica March.
These updates will feed into the second feature, chart Open of Facebook, which collects and class the activities or elements that interact with friends. Applications that integrate with Facebook will be sorted in graphic Open based on the popularity with a user and his friends, including Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, Foodspotting, Vevo, and Nike +, among many others. Open graph is intended to help with the discovery of the app, showing users what their friends are without flooding their food whenever a friend kills a gangster or a new crop of corn plants.
When the timeline was introduced, Chris Cox, Director of product at Facebook, noted that "nothing that we love to summarize more than time itself," declaring that with new features, it would be possible for users to create for months or years in review.
Of course, any motivation for Facebook is not just for friends to become more intimate with each other past and present. Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, spoke briefly at the Conference and noted that "because the selections of our [Spotify] are social, they [users] are more engaged." And because they are committed, they are twice as likely to pay for music. For Spotify, which boasts 2 million paying members worldwide as of Wednesday, exposure to the largest part of the members of Facebook 1 billion could mean big bucks.
The new Facebook completionist is a significant departure of competitors more hungry that Facebook, Google + and Twitter, now offer on their sites. If Facebook can lead users to buy with their stories of life whole on the site, the amount of content, it will explode and create an investment and the representation of itself users are not likely to surrender. And with more content comes more opportunities to target ads.
The beta version of a Facebook calendar begins today, to be deployed progressively the availability. Neither Zuckerberg, nor any of the interveners said a timetable for the new version, but we hope that this will be sooner than later.
