Facebook Timeline Now Available to Everyone

After months of slow, gradual rollout, Facebook Timeline is now available to all users.

The Timeline is a radical redesign of Facebook‘s user profile pages, introduced at Facebook’s F8 conference in September. Instead of merely listing your interests and personal info, the Timeline shows a detailed overview of your life on Facebook, with the ability to check out what you’ve been out to at a particular point in time.

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How to Use Google Search More Effectively - #Infographic

The infographic below offers a helpful primer for how to best structure searches using advanced operators to more quickly and accurately drill down to the information you want. This is by no means an exhaustive list of search operators and advanced techniques, but it’s a good start that will help set you on the path to becoming a Google master.

 

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How to Install ‘Timeline’ in New Facebook Profile

Interestingly, Timeline is not yet live for everyone but an early preview is available for developers. Since I know a thing or two about code, I am going to help you try Timeline on your Facebook account even if you are not a developer. Simply, follow the steps:

  1. Open this link https://developers.facebook.com/apps and click on +Create New App
  2. Add the App display name and namespace, this can be any piece of text.
  3. On the next page, you will see the App ID and Secret and other details.
  4. Click on Open Graph on the left sidebar of this page.
  5. Simply define what your dummy app is capable of, like ‘People can read a book’ and click Get Started.
  6. In the next page, Action Types, scroll down and simply click Save Changes and Next
  7. Next, Time Aggregrations, scroll down and click Save and Finish.

Voila, you just created a dummy Facebook app with Open Graph. Now visit yourprofile page and Facebook will give you the option to switch to Timeline view ;)don’t forget to thank us.

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21 Google Plus circles you can actually use.

We've been using Google Plus all week and we can already foresee wasting a huge portion of our lives on it until we're forcibly herded into the next social networking breakthrough. The one stumble we had was dividing our friends up into Google Plus's suggested "circles" of family, friends, and coworkers. We believe life isn't lived by drawing such lines in the sand, so we came up with our own set of 21 suggested circles for dividing up your friends on Google Plus. We'll continue adding to this list, so tell us in the comments which ones we missed.

 

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Top Reasons Why People Follow Brands on Facebook - #Infographic

Without a doubt, a positive online brand experience creates loyal customers. As several studies have discovered, the majority of consumers who engage with a brand in the digital space – whether by participating in a contest or by ‘liking’ a brand on Facebook – tend to not only purchase the products, but also make recommendations to their friends and family. 

 

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