Five finalists have been chosen in 20 different categories for the 2012 Crunchies awards, and we’re proud to release the worthy nominees today. Voting for the winners starts today, and the winners will be announced January 31st. Read more »
Social TV is any application, website or software that allows viewers to interact with television programming and share that interaction with others. Startups in this space hope to combine ubiquitous second-screen technology with well-established audience behavior to drive new value around shows. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
In this busy new world of multiple social networks and recommendations tools, the discovery process itself is being disrupted by innovation and by the changing ways in which consumers now interact online. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Luxury brand Burberry is in legal trouble for using an iconic image from the film Casablanca in a social media campaign to promote its trenchcoats. Read more at paidContent »
Brands like Nike, Vevo and Fandango now have a new way to integrate into Facebook Timeline. At an event hosted by Facebook in Austin at the South by Southwest festival on Monday, big and small brands mingled and demoed the new wave of Timeline apps. Read more »
Facebook is in the process of converting all user profiles to the Timeline design. But according to a poll, the majority of people aren’t so keen on the new look. Seventy percent of all respondents disapproved of Timeline, as did 90 percent of people over 65. Read more »
A report out today, taking its cue from the new Timeline feature that is now getting rolled out to Facebook’s 800-million-plus users, allege… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook’s new Timeline has been hailed as a digital mirror of our lives but it also provides a new window into the company itself. The view… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook created a stir earlier this year by saying it would replace its profile page with a chronology called Timeline that is created from… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook’s new Timeline user interface is now available pretty much everywhere — including on mobile devices.Just a few hours after announcing worldwide availability of the new Timeline profile interface, Facebook on Thursday launched Timeline on its mobile Android app and on its mobile website, m.facebook.com. Read more »
Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more at paidContent »
UPDATED. Facebook has officially started rolling out the new Timeline user interface in earnest, some 10 weeks after announcing its imminent release. But users in the company’s native United States will still have to wait for Facebook’s new look: The roll-out is starting in New Zealand. Read more »
The likelihood of Facebook’s new Timeline feature going live before the end of the year are looking increasingly slim. Read more at paidContent »
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Facebook’s new Timeline, the feature that will replace user profiles with a chronological digital scrapbo… Read more at paidContent »
Lawyers for Facebook and the digital scrapbook site Timelines.com were supposed to meet in court this week to discuss their trademark tangle… Read more at paidContent »
A federal judge refused late on Friday to grant a temporary restraining order to Timelines.com, a Chicago company that says Facebook’s timel… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook lawsuits have become as regular as rain but this one, filed yesterday in Chicago, stands out. It is a trademark claim from a site c… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook is putting its already immense infrastructure through an unprecedented stress test, says the social network’s vice president of engineering. That’s because the new Timeline feature takes multiple data inputs — from status updates to your songs on Spotify — and turns them into a daily journal. Read more »
Facebook debuted a new profile design called Timeline at its f8 conference Thursday in San Francisco. If you don’t love the new look at first sight, you better learn to at least like it: Timeline will soon be the only profile design available to Facebook users. Read more »
