Click anywhere on that page to start your own feed.
A friend of mine and me have been playing around with some ideas about how to show the Facebook feed differently.
Our first experiment is called PinView and basically takes the Pinterest GUI an apply it to your Facebook feed.
We don't track any personal info. The permissions you are asked to grant are purely to be able to represent your own feed in the app.
Wo do of course monitor traffic.
The entire app is done in JavaScript so everything runs on your own machine. It's no secret that we had to make a lot of hacks to get this working fairly well. FB is definitely not an easy animal to tame.
If you have any kind of data blocker activated that should be deactivated to play with it.
Hey do you guys plan on sharing how you did this? I'm particulary interested in those tweaks you mentioned about to make the stream work. I have some ideas for my news feed but could get off the ground.
It's a really nice way to represent your Facebook Timeline. The key would be on "how to arrange the pins" - based on time OR based on popularity factors like comments,likes etc.
I like the idea but I don't think it works well as an alternative to the current Facebook display. For me my timeline is very much based on time, so when someone has a status "going to dinner at x" it matters that it's displayed before "dinner was great", if it's displayed along side it doesn't make much sense. It works great for photos (and friends) though, it's definitely a cool way to display content just maybe not text.
I think pinterest type displays work for photos etc because it's a way of presenting a lot of content at once that specific items can catch the users eye and they can look at further, that can't happen with text, you have to read it all.
As someone who is pretty much totally checked out of Facebook and logs in maybe once a month, this might actually get me to check out my timeline more. I love browsing it visually, awesome job!
On chrome, if there is a post with a bunch of comments at the bottom of the screen, I click on it and the post appears in the lightbox, but the comments get cut off (I can't scroll down).
A friend of mine and me have been playing around with some ideas about how to show the Facebook feed differently.
Our first experiment is called PinView and basically takes the Pinterest GUI an apply it to your Facebook feed.
We don't track any personal info. The permissions you are asked to grant are purely to be able to represent your own feed in the app.
Wo do of course monitor traffic.
The entire app is done in JavaScript so everything runs on your own machine. It's no secret that we had to make a lot of hacks to get this working fairly well. FB is definitely not an easy animal to tame.
If you have any kind of data blocker activated that should be deactivated to play with it.
Let us know your thoughts.
You can also give feedback (or like) here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pin-View-Community/3301634270...