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 told Mashable.
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 us know in the comments.
BONUS: 7 Useful Pinterest Tools to Supercharge Your Pinfluence
PinReach measures your Pinterest influence. As well as giving you an overall score, it provides easy-to-read charts and tables that show your most popular pins and boards.
Rather than just pin an image, Snapito lets you screengrab an entire website.
In addition to the standard grab, the timestamped snapshot of a website option is a useful bookmark.
Pin A Quote offers a simple service. If you highlight a block of text, it will convert it into a good-looking "quote" to pin to a board.
Pinstamatic lets you add Twitter profile links, "Sticky Notes" and websites to your boards. It's one to watch as it promises more content types soon.
Similar to Snapito, url2pin.it lets you pin a screengrab of a website (rather than just one image from that site) to a board.
Another "pinfluence" measurement service, Pinpuff awards you a score based on your reach, activity and the "virality" of your pins. It also gives you an idea of the value of your pins and referral traffic.
Finally, Pinerly is currently in beta, but add your email address to the waiting list. It promises to be a comprehensive Pinterest analytics dashboard.
Pinerly will graphically measure clickthroughs, likes and repins for "campaigns" created through the service, which would make it a very interesting tool for brands and businesses.
PinReach measures your Pinterest influence. As well as giving you an overall score, it provides easy-to-read charts and tables that show your most popular pins and boards.
Rather than just pin an image, Snapito lets you screengrab an entire website.
In addition to the standard grab, the timestamped snapshot of a website option is a useful bookmark.
Pin A Quote offers a simple service. If you highlight a block of text, it will convert it into a good-looking "quote" to pin to a board.
Pinstamatic lets you add Twitter profile links, "Sticky Notes" and websites to your boards. It's one to watch as it promises more content types soon.
Similar to Snapito, url2pin.it lets you pin a screengrab of a website (rather than just one image from that site) to a board.
Another "pinfluence" measurement service, Pinpuff awards you a score based on your reach, activity and the "virality" of your pins. It also gives you an idea of the value of your pins and referral traffic.
Finally, Pinerly is currently in beta, but add your email address to the waiting list. It promises to be a comprehensive Pinterest analytics dashboard.
Pinerly will graphically measure clickthroughs, likes and repins for "campaigns" created through the service, which would make it a very interesting tool for brands and businesses.
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