Timeline, Open Graphs introduced at Facebook f8 conference

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two key features for the social network at the annual f8 developer conference in San Francisco, California. Timeline and an updated version of Open Graphs are expected to revolutionize Facebook moving forward and change the way we share things with friends.
The first is Timeline which was created to address a need to share older status updates and other important events in your life. Current status updates get “pushed off a cliff” and are lost forever once they leave your profile.
Zuckerberg said the original Facebook profile represented the first five minutes of your life if you were to introduce yourself to someone new and your stream consisted of the next 15 minutes in your story. Timeline is described as the next step in telling your personal life story.
With Timeline, your entire life story can be told on a single page, dating back as far as you would like. The page layout resembles a personal blog with a large cover photo at the top followed by important updates listed in reverse chronological order as you scroll down through the page. Facebook automatically selects the most important updates and highlights them with a blue dot. Grey dots represent hidden updates that might not be as important.
Users can arrange their Timeline however they see fit by removing certain updates or highlighting others that might be important to them. Various filters can be applied to Timeline such as photos or maps of where you have been. Timeline will be rolling out progressively over the next couple of months.
The next major feature is an update to Open Graphs which brings a new class of apps that encompass multiple features in an effort to better link friends. Open Graphs allow you to share things like music, movies and news using the new ticker on the right side of Facebook in real time in what the company calls real time serendipity.

As was speculated last month and leaked yesterday, one of these new Open Graph features involves music.
Facebook has teamed with more than a dozen streaming music providers such as Spotify, Rdio and Vevo to bring music listening and sharing to Facebook. You will be able to see what your friends are listening to in the ticker and furthermore, you can tune in live to listen to exactly what they are hearing.
But music isn’t the only service that is getting the Open Graph treatment. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took the stage to announce that his company was just one of nearly two dozen video providers that were launching Facebook apps designed to share what users were watching with their friends. News outlets, game developers and lifestyle app creators are also joining the Open Graph network. Zuckerberg believes this will be the next big way to spread the word about varying types of media socially.
Media apps for Open Graph are launching right now while other apps such as lifestyle and games will slowly be released alongside Timeline.

Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook to Start her own Social Media Venture

Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg resigned from the position in Facebook after a long stint as a director of marketing at Facebook. This may be a bad sign for the social media giant after the launch of a rising competitor Google plus. Randi Zuckerberg is two years older than Mark Zuckerberg. Randi is the founder of her new organization RtoZ media which will be working with other media houses to help them build programming helpful for making social media supportive platforms.
Randi was a very famous name in Facebook word and has handled some very big projects such as Facebook Presidential Primary Debate, ABC & Facebook Live Election Night Coverage in 2010 and Davos/Facebook partnership. According to some of the social media experts, this resignation may allow Randi to work indirectly with some of the other social media giants such as twitter and may be Google Plus.
Randi was on maternity leave before sending her resignation. In her massage for the Facebook team, Randi said she is thankful to the strong mentor-ship and guidance she received at Facebook. She said I want to show that you don’t have to be an engineer to become a successful hacker.
Randi has received many awards for her excellent work at Facebook. She was recently nominated for Emmy award. Before joining Facebook, Randi worked for some of the big organizations such as Forbes, hosted some famous TV shows such as Good Morning America.
Now it will be interesting to see what will be the next move for Randi Zuckerberg because Facebook is facing the competition from twitter and Google plus and if she works with these competitors, Business will become seriously difficult for Facebook.