UPDATED: The trademark lawsuit against Facebook by Timelines.com over the social network’s use of the term “timeline” as the name of its profile design was set to kick off Monday in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, but Bloomberg reported Monday afternoon that proceedings would be delayed until Tuesday afternoon, or postponed until May 7 for a status conference. U.S. District Judge John W. Darrah offered no explanation for the delay, according to Bloomberg.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
The 2000′s were a simpler era. There was no timeline, MySpace was still the social network of choice, and everything on Facebook wasn’t broadcast to the world. So when people started crying foul that Facebook was publishing private messages, they were misguided. Facebook’s timeline shows wall posts from 2009 and before, when many people used the wall feature to post messages they believed only the recipient would read.
A reader tipped us off that Facebook is automatically checking in users at events that they RSVPed they would attend.
A setting available to timeline pages promises the ability to hide wall comments until an administrator approves them, but the setting has yet to work as described.
Like Ethan Hunt in “Mission Impossible,” you, too, can have your Facebook wall messages self-destruct in mere moments thanks to a new social privacy application from BigString Corp.
Facebook users have a resource to defend against spam and malicious links posted on their wall or news feed with the launch of F-Secure’s ShareSafe application.
In case seeing your Facebook friends on computer screen isn’t enough, you can reproduce their likenesses on a poster through a new offering from Zone 5.
Here’s how to entice people to read, like and comment on your wall posts.
Status updates, wall posts and comments discussing the New York Senate’s vote to legalize same-sex marriage, continue to go up at a rate of about once every few seconds — some in favor, others opposed.
Saturday at noon is the absolute best time to post on Facebook, according to this infographic.
