Facebook Announces New Applications for Your Biography

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by on January 20, 2012 · 52 comments

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Have fun with Facebok applications

Facebook recently launched the new biography so you can recover and collect the most important moments of your life. Starting today, you can choose from more than 60 applications to add to your life and express the things you like.

The applications are available from Foodspotting.com biography, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, RottenTomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Tripadvisor.com Gogobot.com and among others. Now you can improve your life with applications that help you tell your story: If you enjoy cooking, eating, traveling, jogging or watching movies.

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Encourage your bio applications

Once you have added an application, you can start updating your biography with the things you do, as they occur. For example, if you love fashion, you can update your Facebook biography with design, favorite products etc. are part of your biography. If you enjoy cooking you can add the Foodily application to your biography and add your latest dishes. If your friends have also added this application you can see and share new recipes and you will see updates in your respective biographies. If you like traveling you can add TripAdvisor or Gogobot application  and turn your life into a virtual passport. You can show where you are and share tips on your favorite places around the world.

Soon there will be applications for all tastes and interests and eventually Facebook will launch even more applications. If you like snowboarding, gardening, climbing and sewing there will be an application for you.

How to add applications to your life?

The applications of the biography are activities you want to share with friends. You can choose when to add applications and who can see them. And after adding, you can always delete comments directly from your bio or you can edit and change your preferences from the Activity Log located under the cover of the biography.

Your apps

The films you quote. The songs you have on repeat. The activities you love. Now there’s a new class of social apps that let you express who you are through all the things you do.

Facebook Applications

You and your friends can begin to include applications in your timeline to discover new recipes, places to visit, events to enjoy and much more.

Log into Facebook and watch this video to learn more about applications work best in your timeline.

Create beautiful apps for your Facebook Page Timeline

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Dan Keller
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January 20, 2012 at 6:32 am

Very good share. I am an avid travel and I love to eat so I think this will be very useful. Maybe I should take up jogging to take advantage of that app…on second thought, I will just stick with traveling and eating.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 11:03 am

Great!.. I love eating too.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 11:13 am

Great! I love eating too.

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Goa Holiday Packages January 20, 2012 at 6:51 am

This is the benefit to use FB profile as we know this is #1 site in social media and user are increase day by day on this site and we should do anything like that which all mentioned in this blog post then we will in touch with whole world and make many friends which are also interested like us in that work which we like.
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Abhi Balani
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January 21, 2012 at 4:41 am

Goa Holiday Packages? Is this your name? LOL

And yes, Facebook is #1, at least for now. But have you ever noticed the # of scams increasing there day by day. Because of those scams I have locked my wall, no one can tag me in photos and places. Just because of scams.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 11:57 am

Great tip. Yes… Every business is now rushing to develop profiles on social networking sites…. there are lot of positiveness for website promotion just because this is #1 site in social media
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Herbert
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January 20, 2012 at 8:47 am

Seems interesting.. I will be taking a closer look at this tomorrow.. Thanks Amrik
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 11:58 am

You are welcome. Have a closer look on my profile too.
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Adeline
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January 20, 2012 at 8:47 am

I’ve check out the apps.. not too many there yet, and you need to activate timeline feature before you can start telling your story.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:46 pm

Yes! Activating timeline is mandatory..
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amit sharma
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January 20, 2012 at 2:58 pm

Nice post Amrik, will definitely check this out, thanks for sharing :)
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:35 pm

Great! It’s nice to see you Amit again.
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P A January 20, 2012 at 6:28 pm

Is this open for everyone right from jump street? I’m having trouble figuring out what’s new on my page.

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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:37 pm

What’s difficulties you are facing now?
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Sayed
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January 21, 2012 at 1:26 am

I love Facebook and I’d like to learn about it as much as possible (Writing a tutorial about it soon), love the “Adding Applications” feature, thanks for the great post Amrik. :D
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:40 pm

Glad you liked it.
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Abhi Balani
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January 21, 2012 at 4:38 am

That was an interesting article, Amrik! I am not so connected with different apps on Facebook, even not games. But I think, now I should have to take a look at them all. May be, some suits me much. So, thanks for this. :-)
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:41 pm

Yes, you should try some great apps. So start messing with each apps now.
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Rizwan Sultan
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January 21, 2012 at 8:06 am

Facebook’s recent redesign, like my 000-979 , 1z0-226 and 1z0-226 massive amount of content continually flows down the middle of your 642-272 Facebook homepage. How can you keep up with it, never mind find the bits you really want? From Friend Lists to RSS feeds Bible, here are three great ways to ignore what you don’t want and find what you do.
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why 2012 is real
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January 21, 2012 at 9:20 am

Excellent post Amrik. I guess that is why Facebook is growing so fast that even google is not able to surpass its growth (its my personal opinion). I look forward to see more app coming from FB :)
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Hajra
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January 21, 2012 at 10:56 am

Hey Amrik,

Let me confess. I didn’t have any idea about these application Facebook was offering. The changes in Facebook come so frequent and so many that I sometimes do find it hard to keep up!

Thanks for the information, will definitely try some out!
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Amrik Virdi
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January 21, 2012 at 12:43 pm

Yes I understand. I am alreading writing a guide on “How you can usenew facebook timeline in easy way”. I will share as soon as possible.
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Hajra
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January 21, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Thanks! Waiting for the updates :)
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 11:49 am

Ya sure….
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Ajay
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January 21, 2012 at 12:55 pm

Great share, i wasn’t aware about this new feature. Facebook is making itself more engaging by each passing day.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm

Yes you are right.
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Saksham
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January 21, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Great post Amrik! Glad you shared this post on Facebook and that’s why I am here! Tomorrow being a Sunday, I am going to try this out!

Thanks & Good Night,
Saksham
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 11:45 am

You are welcome…
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Dean Saliba
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January 21, 2012 at 2:20 pm

I am not a fan of the new look and I am beginning to grow weary of the way Facebook thrusts these changes upon us and doesn’t give us a choice. I also hate the rolling update feature on the main page.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 11:48 am

You need time to understand the latest features.
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Lisa
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January 21, 2012 at 3:02 pm

I love the new look of the Facebook timeline but how much do I want everyone to know? I think the features will be nice for certain things but not everything. Thanks for the update on this one.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm

I guess people taking hard time to understand the timeline feature.
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Marcie
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January 21, 2012 at 9:45 pm

Ok, these applications are overkill. But instead of giving Facebook all your information for their profitability, how about using that info to write your book and profit from it. There is an audience waiting to hear to learn from your experiences.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 1:44 pm

That’s why I have written this article to make aware of this apps.
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Jarrod Frenzel January 23, 2012 at 5:32 am

The new application is very cool and helps us to bring out our personal side to Facebook. Not so many people are using it up to now but this was a smart move by the Facebook team.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Yes! That’s why I want people to know about and start working with apps.
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Elan January 23, 2012 at 6:20 am

This new application of Facebook will give us more help for knowing biography info of ours friends
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 2:11 pm

You are right elan! This will sure help others to make use of timeline in a better way.
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Stan January 24, 2012 at 10:11 am

Facebook gets better and better. I was skeptic when timeline was first implemented, but with all these new cool apps there’s no way to stay mad at Facebook for too long.
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Amrik Virdi
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January 24, 2012 at 2:11 pm

Nice to hear that!… Cheers
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Seth Lyman
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January 24, 2012 at 4:11 pm

I am liking the new features. My 16 year old will complain about it for the next few weeks but then fall in line with everyone else. Facebook is here to stay and as long as they keep their updates on the cutting edge the domination will continue.
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Chris from Austin Home Search
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January 26, 2012 at 6:48 pm

I like Facebook’s new timeline. Good to see they are keeping things fresh by adding new features such as these.
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majidahmed
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January 27, 2012 at 12:54 am

Hi,

This is great posting ever.Facebook recently launched the new biography so you can recover and collect the most important moments of your life. Starting today, you can choose from more than 60 applications to add to your life and express the things you like.

The applications are available from Foodspotting.com biography, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, RottenTomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Tripadvisor.com Gogobot.com and among others. Now you can improve your life with applications that help you tell your story: If you enjoy cooking, eating, traveling, jogging or watching movies.All thing have in Facebook and I’m really enjoy it and fantastic activity for me.Thanks for this sharing this great post.
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Hanna from Panasonic Lumix TZ10
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January 29, 2012 at 5:35 pm

Thanks for your post Amrik. I didn’t know this apps until I’ve read your post. This brings a new excited for facebook fans.

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Sanjeev
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January 30, 2012 at 4:03 am

Hi Amrik, I knew that they are offering timelines but was not aware that they are making it this interesting. I will defiantly check it.
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Deep January 30, 2012 at 3:49 pm

Thanks for your post Amrik I was not aware of this app I think it will be worth giving a try. This brings a new excitation for facebook fans.
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devesh from interview tips
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January 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm

Thanks for your post Amrik. The new Facebook timeline is really interesting and so is this new App I will definitely give it a try.
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a dance with dragons February 2, 2012 at 8:10 am

Sounds like things are about to get complicated but at least my wife will be happy and i might get some quiet time :)
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Treatment of meningitis February 14, 2012 at 6:08 am

Timeline is interesting but is there any way to remove that?

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Nimsrules
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February 21, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Excellent post and share Amrik, as far as I’m concerned, I like to keep at least some part of my personal life, well, ‘personal’ :)
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Paul
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March 2, 2012 at 1:31 pm

It’s interesting that, facebook wants more and more biography about us, i think something it’s rotten there.
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Mario M. May 12, 2012 at 3:21 pm

Oh yah! This new features on the Facebook timeline are really amazing and show a lot of information rather than the old Facebook profile! The apps are listed very properly on the timeline!

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