January 25th, 2012

Top European Blogging Platform OverBlog Acquires Timeline Creator Timekiwi

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Normally, Palo Alto companies buy European ones, but sometimes there are exceptions. Case in point: today OverBlog, a leading blog platform in Europe with over 32 million uniques according to comScore, is announcing it has acquired Timekiwi, a tool that helps you make a timeline using your social media postings.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but OverBlog says Timekiwi will be… → Read More

October 18th, 2011

Timelines: Why We’re Suing Facebook (And Please Join Our Facebook Page)

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You may remember that we recently broke a story about a small company called Timelines Inc, which filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook. According to the lawsuit documents, Timelines claims that Facebook’s recently announced Timeline feature could “quite possibly eliminate” its entire business.

The lawsuit is still ongoing – although the U.S. District Court in Chicago… → Read More

October 2nd, 2011

The Timelines Facebook Doesn’t Have…

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Last week Facebook made history. After collecting data about its users for years, Facebook turned to designer Nicholas Felton who decided it was time to take that data to the next level and visualize it — and the Timeline was born. But what about what’s going on with the rest of the world, and not just my friends… why doesn’t Facebook have timelines for that?

We’ll answer that in a… → Read More

September 30th, 2011

Timelines.com Sues Facebook, Says Its New Timeline Feature Could “Eliminate” Them

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Timelines Inc., a small venture capital-backed Chicago company that operates the Timelines.com website, has launched a trademark-infringement suit against Facebook on Thursday, claiming that the latter’s recently announced Timeline feature could “quite possibly eliminate” its entire business.

Timelines.com is a website that basically allows people to record and share personal or historic… → Read More