Facebook launches new design

Social-networking site Facebook has unveiled its redesign.

The face-lift, which has been in the works for a while and was released Sunday, will include an expanded Wall section that includes updates from a user's Mini-Feed.

Not everyone will be able to view the new design immediately, Facebook said. Instead, it will gradually become available to all Facebook users over the next days at www.new.facebook.com. Previews have been popping up over the last week or so.

One of the ideas behind the redesign is to make the site more compatible with micro-blogging--adding snippets of text, images, or video clips. The redesign also includes new tabs designed to make navigation easier.

Facebook is hosting a platform event for developers later this week in San Francisco.

[sims12345]

I like it! No more apps to scroll through!

[sims12345]

I like it! No more apps to scroll through!

[coryschulz]

I'm liking it too. About time they did this....

[omer_ch]

I like that they cleaned it up but there are some text overflows at some places and a few other UI bugs

[Harrison912]

I haven't seen it yet. I'm fairly new to FaceBook so I'll probably be one of the last ones to get an upgrade. I'm using it to soft market my safety and security products so I have lots of friends to stay in touch with and all of the images slow me down.

My hope is that most of the videos, images and graphics will be contained on a separate tab so those of us doomed to dial-up can visit our friends pages quicker.

[ledges]

This is the death of application development on FaceBook. Hiding applications that have been so widely used in a tab at the top of the page? It is like giving developers a tool and then pulling it away from them. Sure it needed to be redesigned, but FaceBook has killed the application marketplace. So long FaceBook, it was good knowing you... on to OpenSocial...