The Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline is an interesting new profile page design that Facebook will launch in the month of September 2011. On September 22 during the Facebook F8 Conference, Facebook made Timeline available for testing.

How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-timeline/ …You see, Facebook is enabling Timeline early for open graph developers….timeline was automatically hard-set to go public on September 29th. – It seems…Jump into the developer app (if Facebook doesn’t put you there…

How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW
http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/how-to-facebook-timeline/ …You can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now….Make sure you’re logged into your Facebook account, and then simply follow this link to get started ….timeline from another computer, the address for this developer’s version is located at this…

Don Draper Pitches The Facebook Timeline
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/27/don-draper-pitches-the-facebook-timel…
Facebook, Lessin was primarily responsible for the look and feel of Facebook Timeline…Facebook Product manager Sam Lessin , about this Mad Men homage to Facebook’s…“The most compelling elements of Facebook’s Timeline are the…

About Facebook Timeline
https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline…Introducing Timeline…Tell your life story with a new kind of profile…

History of Facebook / Timeline History

2003
October 28, 2003: Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook. It was described as a Harvard University version of Hot or Not.

2004
January 2004: Zuckerberg begins writing Facebook.
January 11, 2004: Zuckerberg registers thefacebook.com domain.
February 4, 2004: Zuckerberg launches Facebook.
March 2004: Facebook expands to Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, and Yale University.
April 13, 2004: Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership
June 2004: Facebook receives its first investment from Peter Thiel for US$500,000.
June 2004: Facebook incorporates into a new company, and Sean Parker (early employee of Napster) becomes its president.
June 2004: Facebook moves its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.
August 2004: To compete with growing campus-only service i2hub, Zuckerberg launches Wirehog. It is a precursor to Facebook Platform applications.
September 2004: ConnectU files a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and other Facebook founders

2005
May 26, 2005: Accel Partners invests $13 million into Facebook.
July 19, 2005: News Corp acquires MySpace, spurring rumors about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.
August 23, 2005: Facebook acquires Facebook.com domain for $200,000.
September 2005: Facebook launches a high school version of the website.

2006
2006: A leaked cash flow statement shows that Facebook had a net loss of $3.63 million for the 2005 fiscal year.
March 28, 2006: A potential acquisition of Facebook is reportedly under negotiations, for $750 million first, then later $2 billion.
September 2006: Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion.
September 26, 2006: Facebook is open to everyone aged 13 and over, and with a valid email address.

2008
June 2008: Facebook settles both lawsuits, ConnectU vs Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg et al. and intellectual property theft, Wayne Chang et al. over The Winklevoss Chang Group’s Social Butterfly project. The settlement effectively had Facebook acquiring ConnectU for $20 million in cash and over $1.2 million in shares, valued at $45 million based on $15 billion company valuation.
August 2008: Employees reportedly privately sell their shares to venture capital firms, at a company valuation of between $3.75 billion to $5 billion.
October 2008: Facebook sets up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

2009
August 2009: Facebook acquires FriendFeed.
September 2009: Facebook claims that it has turned cash flow positive for the first time.

2010
February 2010: Facebook acquires Malaysian contact-importing startup Octazen Solutions.
April 2, 2010: Facebook announces the acquisition of photo-sharing service called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount.
April 19, 2010: Facebook introduces Community Pages, which are Pages that are populated with articles from Wikipedia.
April 21, 2010: Facebook introduces Instant Personalization, starting with Microsoft Docs, Yelp, and Pandora.
June 2010: Facebook employees sell shares of the company on SecondMarket at a company valuation of $11.5 billion.
October 1, 2010: The Social Network, a film about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg claims the film to be a largely inaccurate account of what happened.

2011
January 2011: $500 million is invested into Facebook for 1% of the company, placing its worth at $50 billion.
February 2011: Facebook adds new “civil union” option for same-sex partnerships.
February 2011: Facebook application and content aggregator Pixable estimates that Facebook will host 100 billion photos by summer 2011
June 2011: Facebook partners with Skype to add video chat
September 2011: Facebook partners with Heroku for Facebook application development using the Facebook Platform
September 22, 2011: Facebook launches new UI in F8 Convention.

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