Musings on Timeline
I assume you've switched over to Timeline by now, because if you haven't, you should. It truly has fulfilled its potential to be the online equivalent of a scrapbook. What gives it extra street-cred is the contexualization of information, i.e., its not just the conversations, status updates, pictures, video, etc., its the fact that the timeline automatically gives you metadata about the content. Oh yeah! That was the status update we took just before Jane walked into the glass door (the next item on the timeline is a picture of Jane Garfield-ed against the door). Add to this the ability to add location tags to this content (which, as Matt points out, happens automagically if you update from your mobile device), and you now have the ability to fix this data in time and space. Its your life, summarized in Facebook. Powerful stuff indeed. PostNote : What I want to know is where this leaves Foursquare . If i'm location-tagging all my ent...