Category Archives: Facebook Event

by by Majestic Media

60 Companies Release New Open Graph Apps.

Today at a Facebook press event it was announced that 60 new companies are releasing  apps that will function within the new open graph system Facebook has implemented.  These new apps will allow users to click on various verbs similar to the like button.  Some of these verbs include but are not limited to “bought” “cooked” or “loved”.  Facebook has streamlined the process of submitting and having these new “actions” approved.  When a user selects one of these actions from an app and provides permission, the action will be posted to their newsfeed. Many of the 60 new apps that were unveiled had previously existed on Facebook but have been revamped for the new open graph system.  There is a wide variety of companies taking advantage of open graph ranging from travel to job searches. The included companies are:

Travel

* Gogobot
* Airbnb
* TripAdvisor
* Wipolo
* Where I’ve Been

Food and Wine

* Foodspotting
* Cookpad
* Snooth (wine)
* Urbanspoon
* Yummly
* Foodily

Shopping and Fashion

* Pose
* Pinterest
* Polyvore
* Oodle
* Fab.com
* eBay
* Giftrocket
* Payvment
* Livingsocial

Fitness

* MapMyRun
* Runkeeper

Entertainment

* Rotten Tomatoes
* Dailymotion (French video site)
* Cinemur (French video site)
* Metacafe (videos)
* Ford (game)
* Wooga (Bubble Island, Diamond Dash)
* OMGPOP (Draw My Thing)
* Zynga (Words with Friends, Castleville

Giving

* Causes
* Fundrazr
* Artez.com

Job Search

* BranchOut
* Monster

Photo And Video Sharing

* Color

Education

* Courserank
* Grockit

Books

* Goodreads
* Kobo

Ticketing

* StubHub
* Ticketmaster
* Ticketfly
* ScoreBig

App Discovery

* Appsfire

Art

* Artfinder

Cars

* Autotrader

Location

* Foursquare

by by Majestic Media

Big Facebook Press Event Tomorrow

On Jan. 18th Facebook is set to hold a press only event.  The speculation about what’s to be released at this event is that Facebook will reveal open graph actions.

The most common implication of open graph actions thus far is read and listen.  These actions have already appeared in the news feed, however with some user discontent.  Many users have complained about the frequency and volume in which these stories appear.

The ongoing speculation states that Facebook will ask the creators of the open graph functions to include a option so that users have the option to not include these stories in their news feeds.  This would hopefully resolve privacy and spamming issues that users are currently reporting in regards to this function.  It’s also been reported that Facebook maybe revealing more functions and  buttons that are similar to the current “listen with” button.