Facebook poised to get tad more social

By: Don Reisinger

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about Timeline during the f/8 conference in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. (Paul Sakuma)

Back in September at the F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company would deliver a "frictionless" experience across the Web through applications. And starting tomorrow, he plans to make good on that promise, according to a new report.

The world's largest social network will be holding a press event in San Francisco tomorrow unveiling the first group of Open Graph actions that share user activities from outside the site with its users, All Things Digital is reporting, citing sources. The sources didn't say how many actions, which are basically simple applications, will launch as part of Facebook's Open Graph initiative.

The focus behind Facebook's applications idea is to combine the "actions" users engage in both on the world's largest social network and off, into a single spot in their Open Graph. So, if a user is listening to a song, watching a television show, or reading a news article across the Web, it can be shared on Facebook for friends to see. Those friends can then join in and do the same. At F8, Zuckerberg said that the idea could create "a completely new class of social apps than what was ever possible before."

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