Social gaming on Facebook was the Next Big Thing last year. This year? Not so much. Online gaming powerhouse Zynga saw its numbers stumble in the second quarter. Yet Amazon.com is entering the business anyway.
Since the Web was born, its dominant companies have all had one thing in common: Eventually, they all crashed ... hard. Prodigy and Netscape are toast; AOL, Yahoo! and MySpace are shadows of their old selves. And then there's Facebook ...
Facebook's new Timeline program allows users to review everything they've ever shared on Facebook and showcase what they think is most worth remembering. It's fully customizable -- but there are some downsides.