Yesterday Facebook announced Timeline, a really cool and slightly creepy look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts. Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime in the coming weeks… which is great and … Read more
Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to unveil the next evolution of the service. The first major change? The Profile. Zuckerberg noted that the original Profile was sort of like the last five minutes of your life. The updated Proile from 2008 extended that to show what was sort … Read more
Facebook’s new homepage ticker is proving very unpopular with lots of users — and that’s no exaggeration. But it’s not stuck on your screen. We made some tongue-in-cheek suggestions about ways that you can kill the ticker earlier this morning, but if you’re a Google Chrome user we have some very good news: You can get rid of the darn thing completely … Read more
This homepage ticker is going to give me a migraine. It shows if you have chat open, and if you close chat, it takes residence above the ads and everything else. Seriously, that’s too distracting. The eye is naturally drawn to movement, and Facebook has already given me attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Facebook needs to make the ticker … Read more
This Thursday, Facebook is hosting its annual f8 conference. This event will be full of news about the world’s largest social network, but you don’t have to wait until Thursday to find out the biggest story … We’ve got it for you today! Facebook is introducing four new buttons that are going to change your life: Want. … Read more
Facebook has redesigned the news feed (again!) and officially launched a ticker in the right-hand side of the screen. Users have been seeing both of these changes in beta test versions in recent weeks, but today they go live across the site. While the news feed and ticker can sound like duplicates of one another, the latter … Read more
Earlier today, Facebook and Skype got a little friendlier, making it easy to find your Facebook friends in Skype and — more importantly — video chat with your Facebook friends in Facebook, a service powered by — you got it — Skype. Since you’re using Skype either way you slice it, we’re not interested so much … Read more
Earlier this week while visiting Seattle, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July … Read more
By now, you’ve had a chance to try out Google Plus or read countless posts about it from the lucky thousands or millions or however many have access. If you’re like me, you’ve jumped from one column saying how it’s Google’s best homegrown social service ever (compared to Orkut, Buzz, Wave, Knol and Lively) to … Read more
As Father’s Day nears, increasing numbers of Facebook users are uploading photos of their dads and making them the main profile image. We don’t know exactly how photos of fathers became the most viral meme for main profile images. When a similar phenomenon happened during the week of Mother’s Day, on the Friday before the holiday, … Read more
