Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into a Movie - also the best of the web

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YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

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It's the perfect time for a thorough examination of the most intriguing links of the day. We'll be talking about Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

OK, let's see who's been writing about Facebook? It was mashable.com who wrote an article called Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into a Movie.

What did they point out about Facebook? They said:
A browser tool launched Monday transforms content from your Facebook Timeline into a fast-paced movie
and went on to say
In what will surely incite a roller coaster of flashbacks, Timeline Movie Maker from marketing agency Definition 6 lets you become a filmmaker with the click of a button. Definition 6 collaborated with Facebook to bring the tool to life.


Next up we have a site that's been writing about Twitter - Twitter Posts Awful/Hilarious Recruiting Video To YouTube.

They said:
Twitter has posted a seriously awful/hilarious recruiting video to YouTube, which the company says was the product of last week's "Hack Week."
... right ...
During this time, employees were able to take time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate on new ideas. Although it was only posted on Friday, the video has already seen over 400,000 views at the time of writing. Why so viral? Because it's parodying the entire genre of startup recruiting videos by purposefully being bad. Really, really bad. So bad it's funny. Or at least that's the hope


Last but not least it's No Thanks, Facebook: Poll Suggests Users Don't Want Timeline from techland.time.com, also focussing on Facebook. The wrote good quality stuff, particularly
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces Timeline, a new feature for Facebook during his keynote address at the Facebook f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco, California September 22, 2011.Timeline is Facebook's way of jamming all your stuff into a kind of chronological feed. It replaces your profile and dumps all your photos, videos and posts into an info-stream organized according to the timeframe you originally uploaded or created them
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That also means it'll surface past status updates and photographs, making them easier for others to find and view. It hasn't been fully rolled out yet, but will be soon, and participating isn't optional - Facebook's making it mandatory, as in "there's no opt-out checkbox."

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