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May 15, 2012 07:25 pm GMT

The Timeline Bump: Khan Academy And Quora Latest To Integrate With Facebooks Open Graph

Screen shot 2012-05-15 at 2.18.35 AMLast month, Facebook drove 160 million visitors and 1.1 billion visits to third-party apps, an increase of 100 million visitors and 780 million visits from the month prior. Thanks to the size of its user base, and the increasing power of its referral funnel, Facebook now has the ability to take sites from 0 to 60 in a matter of weeks. While this is true for content of all stripes, be they photos, games, or news readers, the most recent and most-buzzed-about evidence has been Open Graph video apps, like Socialcam and Viddy.Unsurprisingly, app developers and websites are eager not to miss the train -- the Open Graph/Timeline Lift -- and these video apps are not alone in their Facebook integrations. Now, both the cult favorite community-directed Q&A site, Quora, and the fast-growing, increasingly popular non-profit educational video repository Khan Academy are on board. And, as a result, educational content is becoming social, gamified, and more discoverable. It's friends helping friends get smart.

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