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Improvements to Timeline

by friggeri on 3/13/13, 5:40 PM with 11 comments

• by dcminter on 3/13/13, 6:26 PM

  I read this as:

  Monetizing your movie information. Monetizing your literature information. Promoting Facebook apps. Stepping slightly away from the UX atrocity that is Timeline.

  I have no problem with any of those. But I wonder about the ordering - is this announcement aimed at investors or users?

• by joonix on 3/13/13, 7:01 PM

  How many people actually curate their Timeline and/or care about it? Do you look at other people's Timelines? I don't. I rarely venture beyond Feed and Inbox.

• by kevincrane on 3/13/13, 8:32 PM

  So did they just go back in time on this new layout? Don't get me wrong, I like it, but it looks they've finally accepted the criticism of the two-column layout and gone back to a more popular version from the past. For reference, here's the layout from 2008 taken off google images: http://blog.hishamrana.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/facebo...

• by jmulder on 3/13/13, 6:26 PM

  I'm really curious to know why they decided to place the content on the new Timeline on the right, instead of on the left. First instinct would say that the profile information and who their friends are would fit better on the right hand side with the content on the left.

  Anyone care to guess?

• by edwardunknown on 3/13/13, 8:18 PM

  Something about the tone of these things makes my skin crawl a little but I can't help but read them. It's like the space aliens trying to convince everybody to board their ship in "To Serve Man".