Infographic on Facebook Social Widgets Timeline

Great infographic today on TechCrunch about the launch of social widgets or plugins on Facebook.

These plugins (like the Like Button, Recommendations, and Activity Feed) – enable websites to provide social experiences to their users with just a few lines of HTML. All social plugins are extensions of Facebook and are specifically designed so no user data is shared with the sites on which they appear.

“To commemorate Facebook becoming the Big Brother of social widgets, JESS3, a creative interactive agency specializing in UX and data visualization, has created a nifty retrospective — timeline of Facebook’s social widgets, beginning with the launch of Facebook Connect back in 2008.”

Click the image to see the entire Infographic on TechCrunch.