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Facebook Introduces New Apps For Timeline

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New timeline apps are now available for your Facebook timeline.  Once you’ve added an app, you can begin updating your timeline with your activities as they happen. For example, if you love design, shopping or fashion, you can add the Pinterest or Pose apps to make your favorite items part of your timeline.

The range of new apps include those from Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor, just to mention a few. More apps are coming, says Facebook.

 

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