Facebook Timeline: because there is more space for any other competitor in the social network's Zuckerberg

I waited a week before writing this post. A week in which I started to use Facebook with the same curiosity and interest when I created my profile in June 2007.

Zuckerberg has done it again. The introduction of the Timeline is not only the natural evolution of the old profiles, but most of all, is the perfect platform for the digital transposition of its life on social networks that, in recent years, had the merit of having irreversibly changed our habits and the way we interact online.

The concept of the Timeline, to be true, is not an invention of Palo Alto. In the recent past have tried to introduce it, without success, other social networks in complete anonymity. With Facebook will go differently.

Just imagine the possibilities from this time onwards. Facebook was already a hub of information which collected the daily life of millions of people. With the introduction of the Timeline becomes the historical memory of humanity. It's an idea fascinating as impressive. A huge backup of life of millions of people online.

Suddenly Google +, which I always used in parallel and for which I spent all my recent post positive comments, it has become obsolete and very unattractive, distant geological era from its unrivalled competitor. And so, aside from Twitter, is for everyone else.

There is no more space for anyone. Facebook won

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Why was the first Kindle so ugly? Because Jeff Bezos loved his BlackBerry

The first-generation Kindle e-reader was a revolutionary device, but it was far from pretty.

Now the reasoning behind that ugly design has become a bit clearer: Jeff Bezos pushed his designers to replicate elements of his beloved BlackBerry, the New York Times reports.

“Jeff Bezos would come into our design meetings and say he loved his BlackBerry and the ease with which he could find e-mails and respond to people,” a former Amazon designer told the NYT. The BlackBerry’s design influence led directly to the original Kindle’s boxy design, keyboard, and scrolling wheel on the side.

Thankfully, Amazon quickly grew out of that design. Over time, the Kindle became slimmer and less boxy. The most recent Kindles, including the Touch and the new $79 model, don’t even have physical keyboards.

Now with the Kindle Fire tablet, it appears that Amazon, much like the rest of the tablet competition, is trying to imitate Apple’s iPad. “You can’t get much more minimal than a black rectangle,” Tumblr user interface designer Justin Ouellette told the NYT.

While there’s probably not much more Amazon can do with its future tablet designs, I’m interested in seeing just how far the company can push its e-readers. Amazon’s latest e-readers look different from competitors like the Nook and Kobo, and there’s still plenty of room for Amazon to pursue even lighter and more innovative designs. I can’t wait for a flexible color E-Ink Kindle.

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