Facebook Finally Rolls out ‘Actions’; 78 Different Apps Now Included On Timeline

In what was probably the worst kept secret involving Facebook, ‘Actions’ has been finally unveiled for Timeline in the form of 78 different apps. Revealed at a private event in San Francisco, the change moves beyond the traditional ‘like’ and allows you to choose an action instead, which will take the form of a verb chosen by the app developers. The aim of ‘actions’ is to flesh out your web activity on timeline, reflecting your interests and tastes depending on what apps you download.

So instead of posting a status update which tells your friends about a brilliant song you’ve only discovered, you could add the song through Rdio with the option for your friends to ‘listen to’ the song in question. Or if there was a recipe that you just tried out and wanted to share, you could do so through one of the food apps such as Yummly or Foodily. The ultimate aim is to personalise and enhance your timeline and share the moments where you discover something new or interesting.

Another element to these changes is that your friends’ activity will appear on your activity log on the side of your page as part of the company’s frictionless sharing initiative. Here you can discover what your friends are watching, reading, listening to, and cooking to name just a few examples.

It’s expected that Facebook will begin allowing third party developers to create their own apps with unique actions soon and that the first batch will be made available in the coming weeks. So before you’ll know it, there’ll be an app reflecting every possible action you can think of for you to add onto your timeline.

The number of apps on Timeline has gone up to 78 at the time of writing. Some like the Washington Post and the Guardian have been available for quite a while but the full list is as follows:

Food

Urbanspoon
Yummly
Foodily
Foodspotting
Snooth

Music

Turntable.fm
Soundcloud
iHeartRadio
Rdio
MOG
Slacker
Rhapsody
Earbits
Jelli
Songza
Saavn

Giving

Causes
FundRazr
Artes Interactive

News & Media

The Guardian
The Independent
Washington Post
Yahoo! News
Rockmelt
Buzzfeed
The Daily
Digg
USA Today
WetPaint
Wall Street Journal
InHindi
IBN Live
JoinsMSM

Travel

Where I’ve Been
Airbnb
Gogobot
TripAdvisor
Wipolo

Shopping & Fashion

LivingSocial
Oodle
Pinterest
Polyvore
Payvment
GiftRocket
Lyst
Fab
GiantNerd
Sneakpeeq
Pose
LAX World

Fitness

RunKeeper
MapMyFitness

Entertainment

Flixster by Rotten Tomatoes
Words With Friends
Draw My Thing
CastleVille
Goodreads
Zeebox
Dailymotion
Bubble Island
Diamond Dash
Ticketmaster
Cinemur
ScoreBig
Snapstick
StubHub
Kobo
Ticketfly

Others

BranchOut
Grockit
[s]edition
Autotrader
Color
Chegg
Ford – Grab-a-Badge
Artfinder
Appsfire
Ford – Mustang

Further information about the different Facebook apps on Timeline can be found here.