Ever wished that long, scrolling Facebook Timeline was somehow easier to manage — like, say, a Pinterest board?
Brand new Facebook app PinView displays items from your News Feed, Timeline, friends list and multimedia pages as small panels, just like social bookmarking site Pinterest showcases images on Pinboards.
The spiffy app launched Thursday with the mantra, “Browse Facebook like you browse Pinterest.”
Once you download the app, PinView opens up your News Feed in grid format. Buttons on the top right allow you to just view stuff from your Timeline, friends’ profile photos, photos or videos.
PinView’s developers have ambitious goals for how to improve the app with new features — such as the option to save favorite posts. “We are also planning to allow you to sort them based on popularity and other non-realtime properties,” co-developer Thomas Petersen.
PinView resembles Friendsheet, a similar app that rolled out in January. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg added his Like to the service in March.
Sites across the web have used the grid-format display in the past, but Pinterest has found major success presenting the design to the masses.
“It’s popular because it allow you to quickly scan lots of pictures; that is the strength of this format,” Thomas says. “It’s not something Pinterest invented, but they found the proper use for it.
“Imagine if you could browse eBay that way.”
What do you think of PinView? Will you try it? Let me know in the comments.
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