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Foursquare Rolls Out Searchable User History Pages

Mike Isaac in Social on May 4 at 2:11 pm PT

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s revamped timeline pages, Foursquare rolled out an expanded check-in history page on Friday. Users can now sort through their past locations visited via the Web interface, and can also filter the search history based on who they were with and the type of establishments visited.

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Facebook Expands Timeline App Vocabulary With “Action Links”

Mike Isaac in Social on May 2 at 4:53 pm PT

Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new set of Timeline actions that will allow users to carry out app-specific behaviors from within the Facebook News Feed, Ticker or Timeline. So, saving a favorite Foursquare place, “fave”-ing a Fab.com product or making other changes with the so-called “action links” will reflect on the apps outside of the Facebook environment. The move is one in a string of efforts to more fully integrate third-party apps into the Facebook ecosystem.

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More Media on Social Media: Slew of New Apps Hit Facebook’s Timeline

Lauren Goode in News on February 16 at 3:06 pm PT

A few months ago, AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes questioned why it seemed as though all of her friends on Facebook were reading articles from the Washington Post online; turns out she, like many users, was seeing an aggregated list of activity from news apps through Facebook’s “open graph.” Today, Facebook announced that even more media apps were coming to Timeline through the social network’s open graph, including “The Daily Show,” MSNBC.com, Huffington Post, Mashable, MTV News and BuzzFeed.