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Hey Facebook, Where's That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?
Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting. Way back in September, Facebook...
View ArticleFacebook Timeline Finally Starts to Roll Out -- in New Zealand
Earlier this week we chided Facebook for delaying its new Timeline feature, which the company said was only a few weeks from launch when the glossy new design debuted with much fanfare in September....
View ArticleThe Facebook Timeline You Forgot About Is Launching
Facebook announced on its blog this morning that it will be rolling out Timeline — a new view of Facebook profiles that is meant to “tell the story of your life” by featuring old photos as well as new...
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Facebook's Timeline Finally Showed Up. So Where Are the Apps?
After some delays, Facebook today made its new Timeline pages available to all users, promising to replace its static profile pages with a visual presentation of the story of people’s lives from past...
View ArticleSanta's Digital Downtime (Video)
It’s another Siri + Santa video, as my colleague Peter Kafka dubbed the Apple ad he wrote about earlier this week. Only this time, we learn a little more about what exactly the big guy does all year —...
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Acer Introduces “World’s Thinnest” Ultrabook and a "Me-Too" Cloud Service
Aside from unveiling an ultra-thin Ultrabook, Acer underwhelmed at CES today with its presentation of another skinny laptop and a suite of cloud services that looked a lot like … Apple’s cloud...
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Facebook Says It Will Now Push Timeline to All Users
As had been expected for a while (and as many people expected would happen quite a while ago), Facebook said today that it will soon migrate all its users to its new Timeline profile layout, which...
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Facebook Police: Timeline Violations Will Not Be Tolerated! (Video)
This Jimmy Kimmel mocking of Facebook’s requirement that everyone move next week to the social networking site’s Timeline profile is simply hilarious and unmissable. The “friend your momma”...
View ArticleMore Media on Social Media: Slew of New Apps Hit Facebook's Timeline
A few months ago, AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes questioned why it seemed as though all of her friends on Facebook were reading articles from the Washington Post online; turns out she, like many users, was...
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With Interest Lists, Facebook Wants to Be a Personalized Newspaper
First we had Twitter Lists. Then Facebook Friends lists. Then smart lists. And now, Facebook is introducing Interest lists as a way to push relevant content up in the increasingly cluttered news feed....
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Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram...
Facebook has just announced that it will acquire Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service, for $1 billion in cash and shares. The social networking giant posted on the acquisition, its...
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FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong...
If you want a quick analysis of why Facebook would pay $1 billion for popular photo-sharing service Instagram, please ignore the obvious financials that just don’t add up at all and have most of the...
View ArticleFacebook Expands Timeline App Vocabulary With "Action Links"
Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new set of Timeline actions that will allow users to carry out app-specific behaviors from within the Facebook News Feed, Ticker or Timeline. So, saving a favorite...
View ArticleFoursquare Rolls Out Searchable User History Pages
In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s revamped timeline pages, Foursquare rolled out an expanded check-in history page on Friday. Users can now sort through their past locations visited via the Web...
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What to Expect When Facebook Is Expecting: Five Predictions for Facebook’s...
Mark Zuckerberg’s baby will be coming of age in a few days, just eight years after it was born in a Harvard dorm room. We’ve been there for the first steps, and the first missteps. But do any of us...
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As Instagram Debuts Web Profiles, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Facebook
Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook. Instagram launched Web profiles on Monday morning, the first true attempt from the photo-sharing service to provide users with a more...
View ArticleMore Design Tweaks for Facebook as Friendship Pages Get New Look
Facebook will introduce a new layout to its Friendship Pages feature, the company announced Thursday, another in a series of recent visual tweaks for the social networking giant. The design refresh...
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Facebook's Aim for 2013: Mobile Experiences That Just Can't Be Done on a PC
For much of its timeline, mobile has been an afterthought for Facebook. Last year, the company aimed to move to be more of a “mobile first” company. In 2013, the company’s goal is to create services...
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With New Timeline Tweaks, Facebook Continues Courting App Developers
Like we’ve said before: Facebook really wants developers to build apps into its platform. The company announced a few design tweaks to its Timeline product on Wednesday, rethinking the presentation of...
View ArticleFacebook Gives Timeline Billing to Groups Product
Facebook will soon add its Groups section to users’ Timeline pages under the About section, a small boost in visibility for the company’s collaborative communication product. Groups lets users...
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Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features -- And It's About Time
Twitter may be the best way to figure out what’s happening around the world right now. But it sure ain’t great at telling me what’s going on in my world — that is, what’s happening down the block from...
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Facebook Timeline Makes Its Way to Windows Phone, at Least in Beta
Although its iOS and Android apps have been getting most of the attention, Facebook is apparently still friends with Windows Phone. Microsoft said on Tuesday that there is a test version of updated...
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Facebook Engineering Director Josh Wiseman Departs for EIR Gig
Josh Wiseman, a longtime Facebooker who has had a hand in some of the company’s largest, most ambitious projects, has left the company. Wiseman joined the company in 2007, straight out of Stanford’s...
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Facebook Responds to Zuckerberg Profile Hack: Our Bad (Sorta)
If at first you don’t succeed, get a supervisor’s attention. Or, in this case, that of the chief executive officer. A Palestinian hacker posted a Facebook security vulnerability to CEO Mark...
View ArticleWith Product Update, Twitter Aims to Make Following Conversations Easier
Twitter updated its mobile clients and website on Wednesday, changing the order in which users see tweets in their home timelines. Tweets will appear in order of conversational sequence inside users’...
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