The problem with suing a company like Facebook is that sometimes people don’t travel much beyond hearing the words “suing a company like Facebook” before getting defensive about their chosen social network. No wonder, then, that Timelines.com is taking to the Internet to explain why it’s trying to defend itself from being crushed by the …
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Facebook Sued Over ‘Timeline’ by Timelines.com
Facebook may have Don Draper pitching its new timeline interface in fan-made viral videos, but that doesn’t mean that it’ll roll out to universal acclaim. Or, in fact, that it will necessarily roll out at all.
Timelines, a Chicago-based website that offers users the chance to “collaboratively record, discover and share history” has …
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Question: I saw that Facebook announced some sort of new profile yesterday. Like, like, like and like! How do I get it?!
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Screenshot Tour of Facebook’s New ‘Timeline’ Interface
I signed up on Facebook back in 2004, mere months after Zuckerberg launched the social network at Harvard. At the time, the network was a hit amongst college campuses and was not yet available to the public. Since then, the user interface has gone through more looks and changes than Lady Gaga sees in a good month.
Yesterday, …
Two Minute Video: Quick Look at the New Facebook Interface
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at his company’s F8 developer conference to unveil the social network’s most drastic interface overhaul since 2008. The new features will be rolling out to users in the coming weeks, but here’s a quick preview of what’s in store.
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Reveal More, Consume More: Facebook’s Big Changes
Facebook’s f8 conference started off on a light note, with Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg doing his best Mark Zuckerberg impression, but the conference quickly got down to serious business with some big changes for the world’s biggest social network.
With a huge smile on his face, Zuckerberg showed off a new kind of Facebook …
Facebook Introduces ‘Timeline’: The ‘Story’ of Your Life
At today’s Facebook f8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce the biggest overhaul to the social network we’ve seen since 2008: “Timeline,” a new kind of profile.
Zuckerberg introduced the new Facebook feature as “all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.” Previously your old information …
Two Minute Video: Powerful Acer Notebook Travels Like a Netbook
At first glance, the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830 looks like an ordinary netbook; it’s about an inch thick and weighs around three pounds.
Under the hood, however, there’s a powerful Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. While the computer looks and feels like a netbook, it definitely performs like a …
Timeline: The Star Wars Saga
We’re all familiar with the start of the Star Wars movies: A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away… But with all the spin-off novels, games and comics, the Star Wars saga actually starts a much longer time ago than you’d think. Like, twenty-five thousand years earlier. Oh, and it continues more than a century after the end of Return …
Acer Rolls Out New ‘TimelineX’ Ultraportable Notebooks, More
Acer pretty much announced a bajillion notebooks today. You’ll recall that the company announced a skillion netbooks on Friday, bringing the total number of newly-announced portable computers from Acer to a bajillion-skillion.
The company’s “TimelineX” series of ultraportables is the most impressive, in my opinion. They seem to …
Avatar Trumps Titanic: [Insert ‘King of the World’ Reference Here]
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Bravo, James Cameron. You’ve beaten … yourself.
I wonder how good it must feel to be operating the giant, blue alien arm responsible for raking in nearly $2 billion. Like you’re the, oh I don’t know, king of the world? (Couldn’t resist, sorry.)
The official numbers were released today, after last night’s …