Monday, December 19, 2011

Facebook expands its "timeline"

Facebook has expanded, Thursday, Dec. 15, a new presentation of the profile of users, called "newspaper" ( timeline ) . Facebook Timeline Covers  "The new profile is being launched today and will be available progressively in France and around the world" , says the social network in a statement.

This service was originally presented at the end of September by the founding CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg . The timeline is a kind of timeline that allows you topresent a summary of his life since birth, called to replace the usual "profile" of the user.

NEW INTERFACE
Mr. Zuckerberg, who launched the annual conference for Facebook developers, F8, at San Francisco , made ​​a show of his own timeline : it has scroll the year one after the other, with pictures, but also a map his travels, and various applications tofollow what he has read, watched or listened.
Last week, the site of micromessagerie Twitter had also proposed an overhaul of its interface, wanting to be more clear and more readable. Facebook claims 800 million registered, one of its competitors, Google +, indicated in September that it had 40 million users. Facebook Timeline Covers