Once Facebook launches Timeline, you’ll never want to leave
When Facebookers began thinking about the design for Timeline, the name for the new look and feel of Profiles, they reached for books more often than browser tabs. As a result, while the new Facebook...
View ArticleBig-name designers dissect Facebook’s timeline
Facebook’s Timeline is possibly the biggest wholesale design change the site has seen. So we called in three top designers to critique the concept and execution. Last week, we chatted with Facebook...
View ArticleTwitter reveals new timeline features
Patrick Bisch, founder of Pinglio.com, was on his Twitter earlier today when he noticed something different. His timeline, or stream of tweets, suddenly had new features including a button to expand...
View ArticleMOG’s Facebook users grow by 246% after its social integration
On-demand streaming music service MOG has seen startlingly high user growth through Facebook since its integration with the popular social site in mid-September, the company announced today. Music...
View ArticleFacebook Timeline goes live for all, gives you 7 days to hide your shady past
Facebook’s much-ballyhooed Timeline feature, which gives you a look at your entire history on the popular social service, has gone live for everyone in the world who wants it, the company announced...
View ArticleFacebook launches Timeline on Android and mobile sites
In addition to the worldwide launch of its new Timeline feature, Facebook is rolling out Timeline on its mobile site as well as its Android application, the company announced today. Timeline, which...
View ArticleFacebook releases iPhone update 4.1, Timeline has arrived
If Facebook had a Timeline, today it would read, “became friends with iPhone.” The company released an update to the application today, supporting Timeline, along with a couple new improvements. The...
View ArticleFacebook and Moo partner to print Timeline photos on business cards
What happens when the world’s largest social network hooks up with a beloved social business card maker? The birth of beautiful, Facebook-infused business cards. Digital print shop Moo,...
View ArticleFacebook about to launch Actions, the final piece of its plan for...
Facebook’s ambitious plan to weave various actions we take across the web into the social network via “frictionless” sharing is finally ready to be deployed, VentureBeat has learned. The remaining...
View ArticleMedia companies cling to Facebook, release social news apps
Tomorrow’s news organization will be the one that reaches the more than 845 million monthly active users on Facebook, or at least that’s the prediction 11 different media companies are making today....
View ArticleFacebook Pages for brands are getting a Timeline-flavored overhaul
We’re loving the new Facebook Timeline features for personal profiles, and those features (and a few more) are now launching for brand-focused Pages, too. At Facebook’s headquarters Tuesday, we got a...
View ArticlePres. Obama’s switch to Facebook Timeline shows ability to control your life...
President Obama made the switch to Facebook Timeline on Thursday, and no page might better illustrate how well Timeline helps individuals control all aspects of their life story. Timeline was...
View ArticleGowalla goes dark during SXSW 3 years after launch
Location-based social network Gowalla is, as of today, no longer available to the public. The company was recently purchased by social networking giant Facebook. Gowalla’s website now loads to a page...
View Article3,000 Facebook Timeline apps later, Foursquare, The Onion, VEVO and more hit...
Coinciding with the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a slew of major companies are finally offering apps for Facebook’s new Timeline. The new Timeline apps include Foursquare, VEVO, The Onion,...
View ArticleViddy, the Instagram for video, raising $30M at a $300M+ valuation
"Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well." - Clockwork Orange - 1971 If Instagram is worth an eye-popping one billion dollars, who’s to say the fast growing Viddy, which lets users easily record videos,...
View ArticleFacebook debuts ‘life-saving’ option to add organ donation to Timeline
After teasing a new “life-saving” feature yesterday, Facebook has announced the ability to add organ donation status to a person’s Facebook Timeline. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Good...
View ArticleNew ‘Action Links’ make third-party Facebook apps more interactive
Following in the steps of its “actions,” Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new Timeline tool for third-party applications called action links. These customizable links will appear below an app’s post...
View ArticleUstream’s new Broadcast for Friends iPhone app streams video directly to...
Ustream wants to make everyone into a broadcaster, and to do that it’s tapping into the social network that everyone’s already using: Facebook. Today the company is launching Broadcast for Friends...
View ArticleFacebook says to stop panicking: Your messages have not been exposed
Today we got another good lesson in why it’s important to know what you have on your Facebook wall. Rumors circled the globe today saying that Facebook accidentally published private messages to...
View ArticleFacebook redesigns Friendship Pages with Timeline in mind
Facebook’s Friendship Pages were one of the last areas of the social network to look like the old profile view, but no longer. The pages got the Timeline makeover today, with new options for curating...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....