Today Facebook is opening its Open Graph to Third Party apps. Basically Web services can, with the agreement of the user, populate their timeline with actions they take on those services

Appsfire proud to be the very first Mobile app discovery service to launch as a partner along with a range of prestigious Web services like Pinterest, Washington post and many more. Now you will, like never before, be able to share and discover the favorite mobile apps of your friends. Right in Facebook. Let the App Store/Android Market come to you!

Here is how it works

What this means is very simple: On Appsfire app [App deals and others will arrive later] - both on iPhone and Android, if you decide to create an account with your Facebook login and activate the sharing feature, any time you mark an app as favorite, or add an app to your library, your Timeline will show it near instantly

Of course this happens only if you want to, but you’ll be able, without even thinking about it, to share your favorite iphone and ipad apps with your friends or, as a viewer, enjoy the list of favorite apps of your friend right in Facebook.

Here is an example of how it Looks like below with “CloudMagic” [a great gmail search app]

Here on The Appsfire iPhone (or iPad) App, you favorite “Cloud Magic”

Here a few seconds later the action shows in your Facebook Timeline

The App store comes to you

As you can see the “Favorited” action has been populated right from Appsfire. If you Click on “MyApp” the action will be “Installed”

It was important for us to have 2 different signals. It does not mean that because you installed an app, you really like it. Too many users confuse apps that are popular in the rankings (installed) and apps that are really appreciated (favorited).

We want to help users and their friends to make the difference and have a granular signal about.

Now you can find, more than ever, the apps your friend really love.

It’s as if the App Store was coming to you, rather than you going to the app store. It’s as if, the iPhone of your friends was coming to you, rather than you glancing at your friends’ iPhone [not sure we agree with the Anti-App Store expression - it is more a complement ]

Another great discovery mechanism. By Appsfire

Privacy side note:

• at any moment you can edit/ remove your actions from your timeline. And of course in Appsfire you have a settings to deactivate the public sharing.
• If you install an app via Appsfire and you do not app it to your MyApp section, it will not be shared on your Timeline.
• Finally the Timeline sharing is not retro active: only from today, the apps you will decide to share with your friends will show on your timeline