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Five must-have tools for an awesome Facebook Timeline

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Get ready for a little Band-Aid rippin'. Within the next few weeks, all Facebook users (that's nearly 1 billion!) will be transitioned into Facebook Timeline.

Now, now, it's really not that bad. Despite a lot of complaining, many agree that the Timeline profiles are pretty awesome. Sure, it will force you to look back on memories you worked hard to suppress, but after some initial reflection and (artificial) deletion of these happenings, Timeline reveals itself as the nostalgic scrapbook you never had the time to craft yourself.

Whether you jumped on the Timeline bandwagon at its … Read more

Stitcher first with Facebook Timeline news radio integration

Stitcher, an app that is essentially Pandora for news radio, says it is now the first service to tightly integrate such programming with Facebook's Timeline. The move could be the biggest mobile implementation of Timeline to date, the company says.

Stitcher, which gives iPhone and iPad users access to more than 6,000 on-demand news radio shows and podcasts, and which lets those users create custom stations around them, is launching its Timeline integration today, a step it says will help news junkies discover large numbers of new programs as they see, in real-tme, what their friends are listening … Read more

Facebook adds 12 media apps to its Timeline roster

Love 'em or hate 'em, Facebook's timeline apps seem to be here to stay.

After news yesterday of Open Graph driving astounding amounts of traffic, Facebook announced today that 12 more media properties would be adding apps to Facebook's timeline.

"As media organizations build new timeline apps, initial results show significant increases in traffic and engagement, while allowing media sites to reach new--often younger--demographics," Facebook Director of Media Partnerships Justin Osofsky said in a statement.

The new apps include Buzzfeed, CBS Local: Los Angeles and New York, CMT, The Daily Show, GetGlue, Huffington Post, Mashable, MSNBC.… Read more

Facebook's Zuckerberg racks up followers on Pinterest

Either a social networking-addict or nervous competitor, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently joined the fastest-growing social network Pinterest.

His followers can call him "Zuck" and see that he likes the movies "Brides Maids" and "Moneyball" and that he also likes the idea of injecting food coloring into lemons to change their color.

Besides that there's not much else to glean from Zuck's Pinterest profile. As of this writing, he has 2,558 followers and is following 125 people.

Pinterest isn't the only competing social network that the Facebook CEO has joined--he … Read more

Open Graph boosts traffic to Facebook Timeline apps

After less than a month in the wild, Open Graph is already a huge source of traffic and engagement for Facebook Timeline apps.

Facebook revealed last fall that it would be expanding its lexicon beyond the "like" with Open Graph, which helps third-party publishers link their content with the social network and allows users to see what friends are doing on other sites and join in. Although it's only been a few weeks since additional verbs like eating, buying, and listening to began appearing in earnest, the social network is pleased with the early results.

Facebook today … Read more

Keeping up with the hackers (chart)

Editors' note: This story was originally published June 17, 2011.

The number of hacking events of late is making our heads spin at CNET. There were scores of computer attacks, network intrusions and data breaches in 2011 and the trend shows no signs of abating in 2012.

In previous coverage, we've noted that it seems to be open hacking season, written about some of the hackers and groups who are behind the attacks,and speculated on their motives, so we thought we'd provide a chronological chart listing the attacks so we could all keep up on them. We … Read more

Facebook users polled 'unlike' new Timeline feature

Hate the new Timeline feature in Facebook? You're not alone.

A full 70 percent of people polled by opinion site SodaHead said they want to see the new feature bite the dust. Among the rest of the SodaHeads surveyed, only 20 percent said they like the Timeline, while 10 percent said they don't use Facebook.

Younger people were cooler with the change than were older Facebook users, but not by much. Thirty percent of those 18 to 24 years old said they like the Timeline, while only 10 percent of folks over 65 gave it a thumbs up. … Read more

Rumor Has It, Ep. 18: No, Samsung, we don't need a bigger Galaxy Tab (podcast)

To celebrate Mark Zuckerberg maybe possibly loosening his death grip on Facebook, Karyne and I give you a little Econ 101 lesson.

Kidding! No we don't. All I learned in Econ 101 was that there is apparently no such thing as a free lunch (then what was that pizza I just found abandoned in the kitchen and ate, hmm?) and that the more scarce a thing is, the more money it will cost.

But scarcity might explain why unvested stocks of Facebook have been some of the highest valued and most traded on SecondMarket--a market to trade stocks in … Read more

How to turn your Facebook Timeline into a movie

In an effort to eliminate any apprehension or confusion surrounding Facebook Timeline, Facebook, in partnership with Definition 6, has rolled out a way for you to create a movie using your Timeline.

You're only a few clicks away from having your Timeline movie made, highlighting your greatest and most-liked posts. The end result is actually pretty impressive. Here's how to make your own movie.

Visit Timeline Movie Maker on your computer.

Click on "Make your movie."

Log in to your Facebook account and grant the app access to your account.

Your movie will be processed. It … Read more