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Facebook has begun rolling out a major redesign to users’ profile pages called Timeline. The new format displays your wall posts and status updates as a giant collage, separating the events by month and year. For better or worse, the new look will let you take a scroll down memory lane. In other news, smartphones are everywhere, but just how popular are they? A report by Nielsen found that 44% of all U.S. cellphones are smartphones, up from 18% just two years ago. Not surprisingly, Apple’s iPhone 4 is still the best selling smartphone on the market. And finally, Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire has been the company’s bestselling product since it was available for purchase nearly 3 months ago. Amazon’s entire line of Kindle devices is flying off the shelves, selling over 1 million units a week.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.