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Under the Hood: Timeline apps behind Facebook engineering

Under the Hood: Timeline apps behind Facebook engineering

7/6/2012 · Paul Tarjan

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This post details the integration of Open Graph actions into several internal Facebook tools (Phabricator, Pixelcloud, Scuba, SIOG, StayFitFB, Pokemon) to make them more social and to track user activity. It highlights how Open Graph actions can be used to represent events like code commits, file uploads, data analysis queries, machine learning rule updates, workout tracking, and task completion. The post also discusses the technical aspects of modeling objects and actions for Open Graph, the challenges encountered, and the benefits of using Open Graph for internal dogfooding and developer feedback.

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