Friday, May 06, 2011

Facebook Could Be Planning a Visual Dashboard of Your Life - Technology Review

So perhaps in the future you’ll be able to ask Google what you should do next, and visit Facebook to see what you actually did…  Maybe it will also have a dashboard section to highlight how much time you traded watching commercials for game credits on Facebook.

Ever wondered just how much coffee you drank last year, or which movies you saw, and when? New Web and mobile apps make it possible to track, and visualize, this personal information graphically, and the trend could be set to expand dramatically.

This is because Facebook recently acquired one of the leading personal-data-tracking mobile apps and hired its creators. The social-networking giant could be gearing up to offer users ways to chart the minutiae of their lives with personalized infographics.

Facebook Could Be Planning a Visual Dashboard of Your Life  - Technology Review

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