In the coming days EVERYONE will be using "Timeline", the new profile layout for your Facebook page. Here is a great "how-to" video from Facebook that walks you through what Timeline is, how to navigate your page and the features you have to use.

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Timeline for Facebook Brand Pages is coming - very soon!

Now that users have become familiar with Timeline for their new profile, companies with Brand Pages have been wondering if they'll see the same change. Facebook has kept it quiet but back in the middle of December Mashable wrote a story about the speculation. Although a rep from Facebook could not say exactly what a Timeline Page will look like he did say, "the article Mashable wrote about it is very much on target."

Here are some highlights from some information we did find out from Facebook:

Timeline will be launching for brand pages sometime next month

• Brands will have a few weeks to play around with it before it is automatically pushed live to all brand pages
• The timeline page for brands will be similar to the current timeline profile for individuals

Icons under the cover photo will be tabs

A photo will be associated with the tab icon

There will be a cover photo

A brand will have the opportunity to “feature” updates

• Facebook is still unsure where the brand page will default

Currently you can choose if the brand page defaults to the wall or another tab

This may not be the case with a timeline brand page

We will be publishing more updates very soon as more information is released!

In an era of tight budgets many businesses, from enterprise level to small and medium sized business, are looking for efficient new ways to manage their web hosting needs. The hosting environment is changing, and some are now looking beyond traditional setups, and into the possibilities of cloud hosting.

Traditional Hosting

Traditional hosting comes mainly in two forms, dedicated and shared. With dedicated hosting, a company pays for the complete resources of one or more servers from a service provider. The client has a set amount of dedicated bandwidth, CPU, RAM, and drive space, and the client has full control over the servers resources.

With shared hosting, which is more common among small and medium sized businesses, the client pays for a set amount of space (storage) on a single server, and that server's resources are shared by a number of other websites. It's a cost-efficient, low-maintenance way to host a website or application, and the hosting company is responsible for managing, maintaining, and updating the units. Traditional hosting, especially shared hosting, has its drawbacks though. Because the resources of a single server are shared among a number of different websites, spikes in traffic to those websites can mean decreased performance for your own. Security breaches and other performance issues on other sites make take yours down as well. And there's a single point of failure. If the server itself experiences technical problems, everyone hosted on that server will be affected.

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Facebook Timeline has gone live worldwide, the social networking giant has announced, with all users now being notified that they can activate the life-tracking activity log Mark Zuckerberg announced back in September. A chronicle of your interactions, events, photos and video from your time on the social network, Timeline has been available to beta testers, celebrities and those following sneaky hacks for a few months now.

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What’s Different

When you visit the new Twitter, you can quickly see the site’s been reorganized in some key ways. Everything fits into one of four labels:

• Home: This is your old news feed, only better. Whereas before media in tweets like photos and videos was viewable on the side, now you can see them right in the tweet (you still need to click). You’ll also be able to see information about @replies and retweets for a particular tweet by selecting “Open,” a new option. Twitter says your feed will now appear “consistently” across platforms. which apparently was a problem before.
• Connect: This is where all your @replies and mentions will be. Not a lot new here, but Twitter says you can type in someone’s handle will let you learn more about the person and connect instantly.
• Discover: Twitter appears to have supercharged its search functions and put the results here. More than just a place to look for trending topics and hashtags, Discover will identify stories and trends based on your connections, location and language.
• Me: Here’s your Twitter profile, made bigger, neater and with more activity recorded. Your information now appears on the left instead of right.

Twitter’s mobile apps have been given the same four-column treatment, with streamlined interfaces and a new design. In a subtle change, the old pen icon for drafting a new tweet has been replaced with a quill.

On the back end, Twitter’s updated its API to allow embedded tweets (more on those in a bit) and some better interactions with various other apps and platforms.

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Dear Google Analytics user,

We’re excited to share that the new version of Google Analytics will soon be activated in your account. In addition to a redesigned interface that makes it even easier to explore your data, you’ll also notice some significant new features. Here are a few of our favorites.

Google Analytics Real-Time

shows you what’s happening on your site - right now! The reports are updated continuously and each pageview is reported seconds after it occurs on your site. You’ll find Real-Time reports in the ‘Home’ tab.

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