Facebook adds new timeline feature

January 14, 2006 By

Facebook and Myspace don’t get talked about much on the blogs I follow, which is interesting since these two services are VERY popular (MySpace is something like the fourth most visited Web site and Facebook is used by a large percentage of college students).

Anyway, I’ve become more interested in following these two and today I see that Facebook just launced a cool social timeline feature. Where did I learn that? Over on Noah Kagan’s blog. He works for Facebook as a product manager.

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  • John

    Xanga is also pretty popular for teen blogs.

  • John

    Xanga is also pretty popular for teen blogs.

  • Christopher Coulter

    don’t get talked about much on the blogs I follow

    Riddle: If a tree falls in the forest, but blogs don’t discuss it, does it even exist? And if the tree doesn’t blog to tell of it’s own existence, does the tree even exist? And if it doesn’t blog, it obviously cares not about it’s own existence?

    Now if it is determined to actually exist (by internal deductive reasoning), but doesn’t blog, does it even matter? As if it blogs not, obviously it’s not a matter of much importance. If it can’t be bothered to blog to communicate it’s existence, why should we?

    And should not the non-blogging tree, be roundly condemned for not caring of it’s own existence, for not letting others easily determine it’s existence? And what if the blogging tree determines that it need not send out ‘needle feeds’. Obviously the tree is not paying attention to it’s own existence by not using the proper manner it which to communicate it’s existence.

  • Christopher Coulter

    don’t get talked about much on the blogs I follow

    Riddle: If a tree falls in the forest, but blogs don’t discuss it, does it even exist? And if the tree doesn’t blog to tell of it’s own existence, does the tree even exist? And if it doesn’t blog, it obviously cares not about it’s own existence?

    Now if it is determined to actually exist (by internal deductive reasoning), but doesn’t blog, does it even matter? As if it blogs not, obviously it’s not a matter of much importance. If it can’t be bothered to blog to communicate it’s existence, why should we?

    And should not the non-blogging tree, be roundly condemned for not caring of it’s own existence, for not letting others easily determine it’s existence? And what if the blogging tree determines that it need not send out ‘needle feeds’. Obviously the tree is not paying attention to it’s own existence by not using the proper manner it which to communicate it’s existence.

  • Christopher Coulter

    in which

  • Christopher Coulter

    in which

  • http://helpdesk.wordpress.com/ Michael

    I personally don’t consider Myspace a blogging service. Isn’t it just a social network? Same goes for facebook except school administrators get to look at all of the private data. Right?

  • http://helpdesk.wordpress.com/ Michael

    I personally don’t consider Myspace a blogging service. Isn’t it just a social network? Same goes for facebook except school administrators get to look at all of the private data. Right?

  • http://little-bits.blogspot.com/ Paul Morriss

    I only recently came across MySpace being mentioned (let alone linked to) in the blogs I read, even though I’ve been doing it for years. (It was mentioned in Dare Obasano’s blog because of its popularity.) This goes to back up the scepticism I read somewhere (maybe even in your book) about the term “blogosphere”, as if it was one sphere where everyone linked to everyone else. My techiesphere never links to MySpace blog entries as far as I can remember.

  • http://little-bits.blogspot.com Paul Morriss

    I only recently came across MySpace being mentioned (let alone linked to) in the blogs I read, even though I’ve been doing it for years. (It was mentioned in Dare Obasano’s blog because of its popularity.) This goes to back up the scepticism I read somewhere (maybe even in your book) about the term “blogosphere”, as if it was one sphere where everyone linked to everyone else. My techiesphere never links to MySpace blog entries as far as I can remember.

  • http://www.companyprobe.com/ Nathan Maffeo

    I’ve found that the technology workers (and students preparing to be tech workers) tend to shun myspace – which is possibly why it gets so little play in the blogosphere. However, I have found it to be a tremendous social tool.

    In days past, when I would meet someone new the only way to keep in contact would be through a phone number or maybe an IM screen name. Thanks to myspace, though, I can look them up and then be passivly continuously aware of their activity (and they of mine) through the posting of bullitens or blogs.

  • http://www.companyprobe.com Nathan Maffeo

    I’ve found that the technology workers (and students preparing to be tech workers) tend to shun myspace – which is possibly why it gets so little play in the blogosphere. However, I have found it to be a tremendous social tool.

    In days past, when I would meet someone new the only way to keep in contact would be through a phone number or maybe an IM screen name. Thanks to myspace, though, I can look them up and then be passivly continuously aware of their activity (and they of mine) through the posting of bullitens or blogs.

  • http://mysmileyspace.com/ Steve L.

    Were do i find some new MS layouts?

    Thanks,
    Steve

  • http://mysmileyspace.com/ Steve L.

    Were do i find some new MS layouts?

    Thanks,
    Steve