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Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by colinhowe »

tuhin wrote: post #36

This in short is a great piece of design. Especially coming out of facebook this is amazing (well they now have one of the most talented designers so not that surprising). However, as a business this is killer and shrewd. Everyone would want to save a log of their life. More app permissions to add to timeline > more auto posts in ticker > more connection for Facebook. Well played! Disclosure: I am working on somethin…

Keep going with it. I started a similar (short-lived) site a few years ago.

At the time I think I got too caught up on the idea of it being all my own data. You could easily make it pull in data from Facebook (as well as your own data and other places). I think the gain of a dedicated app is that it won't change when the next idea for a profile comes along. Also, you can probably do an even better and more useful job if that is all you are focussed on.

Good luck!

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by dorian-graph »

Yhippa wrote: post #49
tuhin wrote: post #36

This in short is a great piece of design. Especially coming out of facebook this is amazing (well they now have one of the most talented designers so not that surprising). However, as a business this is killer and shrewd. Everyone would want to save a log of their life. More app permissions to add to timeline > more auto posts in ticker > more connection for Facebook. Well played! Disclosure: I am working on somethin…

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

You could always follow the old-fashion method of keeping a journal. Maybe modernise it a bit and have a digital one with, wait for it, images and videos!

I love keeping a journal and have done so for a fair few years quite diligently and before that, on and off. I have friends who have journals from their grandparents and some even further back.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by simondlr »

jojopotato wrote: post #5
ryansloan wrote: post #2

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could be pretty cool.

The examples that they are showing look awesome. I wonder if they will surface ex-girlfriends as "important" parts of your timeline.

They do. Went to 2009 and Facebook highlighted when I became friends with her. Sigh.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by justincormack »

wizard_2 wrote: post #87
toyg wrote: post #80

I can't help but think of bitrot. You spend an afternoon "scrapbooking" in real life, and you get something that your grand-grandsons might, one day, inherit and read in awe. You spend an afternoon scrapbooking on FB, and in ten years FB goes bust or whatever (Geocities, anyone?), and you've got nothing. I guess the real test will be my wife -- she loves scrapbooking. (this, and the first time I went through the pres…

I just downloaded an html version of facebook profile before deactivating the account. It's got almost all the content you could call yours in it and it's presented in an easy to use way. You don't get everything, but it wasn't nothing.

I just deleted my account without downloading anything. I just dont see any value in tht stuff...

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by jonknee »

pork wrote: post #98
BasDirks wrote: post #70

Disgusting. Who would put their life story on Facebook? A crippled kind of human. Life is not pictures and facts, and this product pretends it is.

Yes, while you're at it, who would put their life story in a scrapbook. Oh, wait...

You don't typically put your life scrapbook on your front porch.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by jamesjyu »

This is great.

The majority of social networks and social sharing sites are obsessed with the now. This stemmed from Facebook and Twitter pioneering the UI with the timeline format. However, try to go back really far in any timeline, and you'll usually be greeted with a wall.

Timeline will hopefully make Facebook (and other sites) realize the potential there is in browsing through and curating older content. Sure, people will still be obsessed with the newest stuff, but at least there will be a way to open up the time horizon a bit and reflect on the forest.

As the FB generation grows up to become grandparents, it'll be fascinating for the grandkids to actually see a complete and browsable timeline of their grandparents. Just imagine if you had that today.

Sidenote 1: FB is now starting to encroach on 1000memories's space.

Sidenote 2: FB should really sell automatically generated (but high quality) timeline storybooks. Parents and relatives would go crazy for that.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by jawngee »

muppetman wrote: post #52

I'm amazed I'm the only one it seems that things this is pretty lame and not going to be that popular. People _already know_ your life story, that's usually why their your (at least close) friends. Do you really want to see your workmates "life story"? For those that think this is genuinely going to be a good and popular thing, could you explain why? You probably all know much better than me, so I am interested to he…

I dunno, I just enabled it and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering why my events are visible to the public though.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by mark_l_watson »

A tangent: I allow G+ to auto-upload the pictures and short videos that I take with my Droid. Since I spend a little time deleting all but my favorite pictures and videos, this will eventually be a good private timeline (private because auto-uploaded material is not public until you share it).

If someone spent a few minutes a day also annotating pictures and videos then this would be a good resource for remembering the past.

Hopefully Google Takeout exporting facility will soon also provide download ZIPs for auto-upload materials.

Re: Facebook Timeline

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Post by blantonl »

Interesting to note that Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing maps for all mapping presentation. Direct shot across Google's bow?

I'm a Facebook developer and followed these instructions from none other than TechCrunch to get my timeline profile up and running.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-time...

In any case, I thought the Bing Maps integration is a pretty significant item to note the growing competition between Facebook and Google on the social scene.

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