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Although Facebook publicly announced a new Timeline layout last week with posts in a single column on the right and customizable modules to the left, some users are seeing another design, which is more of a hybrid of the new and old Timeline.
Blink VP Planning and Media Eti Suruzon says her profile was updated Wednesday, but it doesn’t look like the version Facebook has launched to others…

Facebook will no longer display mobile bookmarks for apps unless they are games that function on both mobile devices and the desktop canvas, according to a post on the company’s developer blog.
Bookmarks were likely not driving much traffic to most mobile apps so it wasn’t necessary to keep them around…

Facebook today began adding weather forecasts to upcoming events and current weather conditions to place pages such as parks, cities and neighborhoods, a spokesperson tells us.
Events that have a designated location, and which will occur within 10 days, will now offer a general forecast and estimates for high and low temperatures…

Google+ users can now filter their search results on the platform to show only photo posts, according to software engineer David Cohen.
The feature is available through a drop-down list of filters attached to the search bar on Google+. Currently, only one search filter can be applied at a time.
The search will reveal all photos that the user has permission to see, including photos shared in his or her circles and photos shared publicly…

500 Startups is a big fan of AngelList, the social network-like platform for young businesses. Back in January, the US incubator and VC adopted AngelList as the sole platform for applications to its Spring 2013 batch, and now it is kicking things into another gear as it begins accepting investment for its Fund II via the service…

It’s great to be George R.R. Martin. The author of the ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ Series — the basis for HBO’s Game of Thrones — could be found at the show’s West Coast premieres this week holding court, reveling in the popularity of his books and the international success of the show, which returns to U…

Facebook will further roll out a commenting system that it has been testing, which includes threaded conversations and a ranking algorithm meant to put the most relevant and high quality comments first, a spokesperson tells us.
The new comments for pages and users who have enabled “follow,” have been in testing since November, and starting next week will be available on an opt-in basis for all accounts with more than 10,000 fans or followers…

Can you name an industry that hasn’t been affected by social media? If you can list it, someone will target it so keep that intel to yourself! But assuming you can’t, you would have to agree that along with social media, social client relationship management (CRM) has become pretty essential – and the job market agrees…

On the occasion of its seventh birthday today, Twitter has announced that personal archives of tweets are now available for 12 more languages:
Twitter archive adds Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu— Twitter (@twitter) March 21, 2013
In December, when Twitter rolled out the option to download a massive archive of your history, this is what they had to say about the feature:
Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning…

We are working with UK Trade & Investment to showcase the United Kingdom’s thriving start-up and investment scene through a series of posts and video interviews at SXSW. Check out all of the coverage here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
Tyler Arnold is co-founder & CEO of SimplySocial…

There’s an old English saying, “Keep a thing seven years, and you’ll always find a use for it.” Today is Twitter’s 7th birthday, which we observe on the day @jack first tweeted. Since then, we’ve seen breathtaking velocity in Twitter’s growth, which is due entirely to your many uses of it…

While Facebook is a valuable platform for almost any type of business, the social network realizes that nonprofits face some unique challenges. With that in mind, Facebook released a guide to help nonprofit organizations raise awareness and connect with its user base.
The guide, which details the best practices on how to use Facebook Pages, Instagram, and other tools, also includes a case study about Movember — a grassroots advocacy movement…