Facebook has confirmed to ABC News that it's conducting limited trials of an updated Timeline that moves the news feed to a single column, replaces the thumbnail navigation with simpler-looking tabs and makes all profile page information available through scrolling.

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The larger screen enabled more of a Web page to be visible without scrolling than on typical phones.

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There's a reason, of course -- the current e-ink technology is simply not built for web browsing -- the page refreshes a lot during scrolling, images don't look great and in the case of the Kobo, there's no pinch-to-zoom, so you've got to rely on an ever-present slider on the bottom to make things larger.

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Baynote attempts to go beyond the clickstream by incorporating data from scrolling, time spent on a page, and other factors that signal high levels of engagement with a product or piece of content.

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To answer your queries, loading time from the live tile menu to the top tweets page above is approximately three seconds, while scrolling is basically identical to the perfection available on WP7's own apps.

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His sites will soon abandon the scrolling layout in favor of a more conventional front page that is dominated by images and headlines.

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And if you're drawing something that requires scrolling, you're forced to use a mini-version of the page to scroll to the place you want.

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