If you're not the embrace change type, you're going to throw another mini-fit today: Facebook is switching up the look of your profile. Again. Again, again. Read More >>
What does a photograph mean to you today? Maybe an Instagram pic shot with your iPhone. Or a Facebook group photo taken with a point and shoot. Or if you're fancy, a DSLR-taken, Flickr-uploaded portrait. But what was it before? Kodak? Polaroid? This Facebook Timeline shows you the life of a photograph, from its invention (or birth) until now. Read More >>
Featured comment by Wezley:
"'i'll take timeline'? ha sounds like you don't have a choice! :\... i was forced to have timeline afew months ago. its not that bad !" More »
Quick! Take a look at your Facebook profile. What do you "like"? Do you really like these things? Are you willing to PUT YOUR REPUTATION ON THE LINE just so you can affirm your affection for the UKIP? Read More >>
Featured comment by SivadUk:
"And it's not just that now only the criminals are armed, it spills over into other areas. Since the handgun ban, home invasions and other forms of the..." More »
I was talking with a good friend today about, among much else, Facebook and introspection and self-image. I'm on Facebook, my friend never has been. (No, really, never.) He said he doesn't think about himself or reflect on his life nearly as much as other people (myself included) seem to. And he wondered if, maybe, his disinterest in analysing the minutiae of his life has anything to do with not having a Facebook account. Read More >>
No one I know is using Facebook's Timeline Life Events. When Facebook introduced the feature with Timeline, I thought, yes, that could work great for historic brands and famous people, but for users? Why bother? It seems not even Mark Zuckerberg himself can be arsed with it, so why should you? Read More >>
Plenty of people are still unwrapping their undies after the move to Facebook's super-graphical Timeline look—and now the company is ready to mix things up again. Check out what your profile might look like soon. Read More >>
Featured comment by tsjmcgrath:
"It's just people who have lives which revolve around getting likes, using people's conscience to make themselves 'popular'." More »
Buzzfeed's FWD has put together a Facebook timeline filled with people getting VERY VERY ANGRY about each and every tweak to Facebook's design and functionality. Everyone hates everything that Facebook does, and always has, apparently. Read More >>
Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It's quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson's rushed out prose. Read More >>
We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don't. Doesn't really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! Since Timeline adds a big, splashy picture to your profile page, you can easily hack that big picture with your original profile picture to give your Facebook page some character (and make all your friends Like you). Here's how. Read More >>
Featured comment by warrmr:
"Im not 100% on this one but I believe this is the original meaning of the word rather than the common media definition of a bad person who breaks syst..." More »
Facebook Timeline is already cinematic—a whooshing biographical column of your entire life, writ enormous. So turning it into a movie is the next natural step. Too bad Facebook's directing debut makes you look so dull. Read More >>
All of you Timeline holdouts: the holding out ends soon. "Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline," says Facebook. And by "will get," they mean "must use." Here we go! Read More >>
Featured comment by BritishAcademic:
"God. Please give us an edit system. Drug related fence is not a hedge made of weed, honest officer, no really, please stop doing the swirly thing." More »
Yesterday Facebook launched Open Graph, its tool for letting third party developers share actions in your timeline, with 60 new partners. Here's what you can do with it, and why you might not like it. Read More >>
Featured comment by Nick Acott:
"Just block the stuff you don't want to see, clicking one post options say for example Spotify will give you the option of never seeing it again. Probl..." More »
Facebook has started placing adverts within its main news feed, causing confusion about the terminology it's using. Instead of saying "Adverts" or "Sponsored posts" or something obvious so you know never to click on the stupid things, the ads are tagged as "Featured" -- which doesn't make it clear that you're seeing a paid comment. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Yes, not just that but relevant ads too :-) Giz is one of the few sites which I have as exceptions to adblock and I have seen a marked improvement in ..." More »
Facebook’s just launched the “Facebook Card”, a business card gleaned from your Facebook profile and has tapped an award-winning web-printing company, Moo.com, based London’s Silicon Roundabout to do it. Read More >>
Featured comment by jtanz0:
"Sold out for today the moo site says come back tomorrow lunch time when they'll be releasing another 5000 boxes
FYI to get to the link you have to ..." More »