Facebook Action Links – Open Graph apps for your Timeline applications
The social network, Facebook has added customisable links, or ‘Action Links’, for Timeline applications, give users a new way to react to posts. Looks like Timeline applications are about to get a lot more interactive.
The customizable links gives another tool to your Facebook friends or Subscribers to do something within your app when your Open Graph stories appear on your Timeline, or in their Ticker and News Feed.
Facebook software engineer, Alex Wyler, explains the new feature: For example, when someone checks in on foursquare and shares it on their timeline, friends can already like or comment on the resulting post through the links that appear as part of the story. Now with action links, foursquare added another link – “Save this Place” – that enables people to save a place to their foursquare to-do list directly from Facebook. Fab.com allows people to add a product to their own Fab.com favorites with the “Fave this Product” action link.
“Now with Action Links, Foursquare added another link – ‘Save this Place’ – that enables people to save a place to their foursquare to-do list directly from Facebook.”
Other action links already introduced by applications include options such as ‘Fave this Product’ or ‘Save this Recipe’.
“Action Links tie one action to another, and can be part of any Open Graph story. Developers can designate an Action Link for any action they define, which will then appear throughout Facebook,” says Wyler.
Facebook Action Links, image credit – facebook.com
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