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Chicago company sues Facebook over Timeline feature

Facebook's Timeline, the newest and most dramatic change yet to its famous profile pages, hasn't even rolled out publicly yet, but it's already under legal attack.

Timelines.com, a small Chicago based company, filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit yesterday against Facebook. Timelines.com, an online social-scrapbooking company, has been in business since 2008 and is claiming that Facebook's newest platform product could destroy its livelihood.

According to the complaint, which TechCrunch has embedded, the Chicago startup is seeking damages and an immediate injunction to prevent being "rolled over and quite possibly eliminated by the unlawful action … Read more

Don Draper pitches...Facebook Timeline?

This is beautiful.

In the way slow motion scenes of individual back hairs being plucked by a Rottweiler's teeth to a Johann Strauss waltz would be beautiful.

Created by a very interesting man called Eric Leist, this is the story of how Facebook Timeline was sold to corporate America. By the ultimate American mad man, Don Draper, aka Jon Hamm.

It's done with feeling. For it is, in fact, Draper's presentation from the TV show "Mad Men" of the Kodak Carousel to some allegedly sane men whose clothes are currently available at Banana Republic-- doctored … Read more

Get started with the new Facebook Timeline

On Thursday, Facebook will begin rolling out the next phase of Facebook profiles, known as Timelines. Your profile--er, Timeline--is now a never-expiring feed of all your activity in chronological order, going back to the very first day you joined Facebook. And all your friends can view it.

Whether you think this is awesome or extremely creepy, there are a few things you need to know about the new design, including privacy options. Watch the video and follow the instructions below to configure your Timeline.

Your cover photo

At the top of your profile is the cover, which can be anything … Read more

This Day in Tech: LinkedIn hosts a town hall event for Obama; Boeing's new 787 dreamliner

Too busy to keep up with the tech news? Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET News for Monday, September 26.

• Obama visited Silicon Valley to try to woo technology leaders to discuss the economy and ways to move the country forward.

• So logging out of Facebook isn't enough? Facebook engineer says Facebook does track logged-out users. Just to put this rumor to rest, Facebook is still free. And, good thing Facebook fixed the unfriending bug so users can no longer see who unfriends them in the new Timeline.

• T-Mobile unveils high-end smartphones, including Samsung Electronics' … Read more

Facebook unfriending 'bug' gets quick fix

Facebook users who were spying on their Timeline to see who had unfriended them in the past will no longer be able to do so.

Late last week, Facebook users discovered that when accessing the social network's new Timeline feature and choosing a year, they could find out which former friends had unfriended them. When viewing their friends list in a particular year, users who saw an "Add Friend" icon next to a person's name knew that that particular user had unfriended them since that time.

As expected, folks who have access to Timeline rushed to … Read more

Facebook redesigns itself for expansion (roundup)

At its F8 conference, the already massive social network shows off new features intended to work itself ever deeper into the fabric of your life.

Zuckerberg's vision: All Facebook, all the time commentary In the future according to the Facebook CEO, every application would be "social" and, best of all from his point of view, inextricably linked to Facebook's platform. (Posted in Digital Media by Charles Cooper) September 23, 2011 10:49 a.m. PT

Facebook changes creeping out some customers Across the Web, folks have been chiming in on how they feel about Facebook's … Read more

How to find out who's unfriended you on Facebook

Update, September 25, 9:14 a.m. PT: Facebook has, as predicted, apparently moved quickly and taken care of this minor invasion of privacy in record time. It seems you can no longer pinpoint unfaithful friends in this way. Below you'll find this story in its original form (note the final paragraph).

They say we should keep our friends close and our frenemies closer, but sometimes, despite our best efforts, we lose a Facebook friend. It can be handy (or infuriating) to know for sure who's left the fold, and until now, there was no good way to … Read more

Friday Poll: Is the new Facebook look hot or not?

We knew it was coming. There was no escape. The new Facebook look was unveiled yesterday at the F8 developers conference.

We saw sneak previews of the fresh Timeline and Ticker features that represent a radical departure from the spare white Facebook profiles of the soon-to-be past.

It's kind of like coming home and finding that your spouse has gotten Botox, a hair cut, a new wardrobe, and can't stop talking about the song he's listening to and which Paula Deen recipe is on the dinner menu. It all feels a little surreal.

Eventually, all profiles will go over to Timeline. It has a massive top photo and easy access to all your Facebook updates throughout the years so that you can wallow in that nostalgic moment four years ago when you ate a deep-fried Twinkie at the fair and posted about it.

Ticker will feed real-time updates about the minutiae of your friends' lives onto your profile. Now you'll know who's listening to Celine Dion at any given moment. There will also be more integration of social apps into your profile.

Change is hard. Not even the sight of Mark Zuckerberg's adorable puppy on his Timeline could soften the hearts of some critics. There has been a mixed reaction to the new look and features. Some folks like it, some folks are threatening to run back to the familiarity of MySpace or forward into the unknown of Google+.

Where do you fall on the scale of new Facebook love and hate? Vote in our poll and sound off below.… Read more

Why Netflix, Spotify and others are friending Facebook

Facebook is angling to be the entertainment industry's next taste maker.

While CEO Mark Zuckerberg today wowed the crowd of its F8 developer conference with a nifty looking new Timeline feature, the company's latest vision of how much information others should see, and how it's being shared is the change that will affect users -- and Hollywood -- in the months to come.

For proof, look no further than Facebook's new slew of media partnerships, which include big entertainment names like Netflix, Spotify, and Hulu, along with media outlets like USA Today, The Guardian, and The … Read more