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Facebook Police: Timeline Violations Will Not Be Tolerated! (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on January 27 at 7:00 am PT

And friend your momma, or else!

Facebook Says It Will Now Push Timeline to All Users

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24 at 7:19 am PT

Facebook said today that it will finally migrate all users to its new Timeline profile layout “over the next few weeks.”

Acer Introduces “World’s Thinnest” Ultrabook and a “Me-Too” Cloud Service

Lauren Goode in News on January 8 at 3:37 pm PT

Acer showed off “the world’s thinnest ultrabook” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, as well as a suite of cloud services that looked … familiar.

Santa’s Digital Downtime (Video)

Lauren Goode in Media on December 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT

It’s another Siri + Santa video, only this time, we learn more about what he actually does during the other 11 months of the year.

Facebook’s Timeline Finally Showed Up. So Where Are the Apps?

Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2011 at 10:36 am PT

Facebook today made its new Timeline pages available to all users, but it didn’t unleash the many “Open Graph” applications that developers have been building to fill in the story of users’ futures.

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The Facebook Timeline You Forgot About Is Launching

Lauren Goode in News on December 15, 2011 at 5:38 am PT

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 — to all users worldwide. The Timeline feature was one in a series of product announcements the social networking site made at its f8 developers conference in September; until now, it had only started rolling out in New Zealand.

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Facebook Timeline Finally Starts to Roll Out — in New Zealand

Liz Gannes in Social on December 6, 2011 at 6:43 pm PT

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. Today, Facebook said it is finally making Timeline available to a broader audience — in New Zealand, a country with a total population of just 4.4 million and something like two million Facebook users (but lots of scenic places to take pretty cover photos!). Other people are to get access to Timeline “in the near future,” Facebook said.

Hey Facebook, Where’s That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?

Liz Gannes in Social on December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

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.

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1000memories’ Nuts-and-Bolts Way to Bring the Past Online: Scanning Old Photos

Liz Gannes in Social on October 27, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

While Facebook’s new Timeline aims to help users tell their personal stories from birth to the present, it’s somewhat hollow, because many users don’t have much in the way of online updates or photos from before they joined Facebook. Now start-up 1000memories has built a simple iPhone scanner app called ShoeBox to digitize old printed photos. Photos can be shared with family and friends on 1000memories and exported to Facebook.

Don’t Freak Out! Facebook Swears “Timeline” Will Make You Happy

Liz Gannes in Social on October 6, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT

At first, the upcoming Facebook Timeline interface may be disorienting for users, but soon they should see its expressive power, said Timeline product manager Sam Lessin in an interview on Wednesday.