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At the F8 conference today, Facebook announced a new feature for its online social network, both on the web and on mobile. Timeline now puts your personal history on Facebook into a lengthy, graphically-rich interface. You can highlight major events, drill down into smaller events, and filter what’s shown so you only see one kind of content in the whole timeline (such as photos). You can see where you’ve been, based on your Facebook Places check-ins. Apps can plug into Timeline too, and reports can summarize your monthly activity. Facebook’s angle for the service is that this is the new equivalent of having a long conversation with someone, while the first generation of Facebook was the introduction, and the last was the first 15 minutes of casual chatting.
This is a neat addition, though we only got a brief look at what the iPhone app will look like. Hopefully other platforms, like Android, will be launched around the same time. You can read more about Facebook’s plans for Timeline over here.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
