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At Facebooks f8 developer conference today, one of the features announced was the Timeline feature. Facebook had launched the new Newsfeed and Ticker earlier. Initially when I heard Timeline I was like thats a Twitter thing. Right? Wrong! The Timeline is totally different from Twitters. Its a collection of updates, photos and locations tagged to a particular date/time in your Facebook history. On the old Facebook profile, you had to click Older Posts for as long as you needed to view a friends old updates. Now all you have to do is click a particular year or month on the side of a Cover image.

Well assume youre already logged in to Facebook, so Lets Get Started:

1. Enable Facebooks developer mode. If you havent already done this, just search for developer in the search box. The first result is what youre looking for. Now, enable the developer app by clicking the Allow button and Allow the app. 

2. Move over to the developer app via http://developer.facebook.com/apps 

3. Create a new app. Give your app a name and a namespace(The namespace doesnt allow all special characters and must be a minimum of 7 characters). Read through the Platform Privacy Agreement and Accept it afterwards.

4. Youll be moved to your apps settings page. From there click the Open Graph link on the left of the page and then click Get Started Using Open Graph.

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5. Youll need to create a test action like Read a book or Watch a Movie.

6. After this, youll be moved to the action type configuration page. Play around with a few of the action settings and you should go through all three pages. For mine, I didnt go through all the pages there were a few errors when I clicked Save Changes so I skipped the last 2 pages and went straight to my profile.

7. Wait about 3 minutes and head back to your profile. Theres an invitation waiting for you to try out the new Timeline.

Its important to note that this is a developers version. Therell be some bugs while you try to do this. Also, your Timeline might not be seen by your friends. Some timelines have been set not to go live until September 29th. There are also reports that itll only show on your current computer, thats the computer you used to set it up.

In the last week, weve seen Facebook add a subscribe button to profiles, take the poke button away and redesign the news feed to strengthen its service. Like every Facebook change, majority of users have complained about these changes. I think Facebook knows that its in an  innovative industry. The only way to move forward is to keep adding new features, taking a few away and redesigning the website a bit. They also have to stay ahead(and even copy) of other social networks. Or else youll end up like Yahoo.

Now that youve seen it, how do you like it? Leave us a comment.

Source: TechCrunch 

Binjo

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