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.
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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.
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by AMFitzwater
September 16, 2008 9:19 AM PDT
- I think the New Facebook takes and breaks what was simple, elegant and useful and replaces it with a variety of tabs that hide, disassemble and confuse the carefully crafted narratives and preferences that millions and millions of users chose with purpose. There is about 400 percent more advertising space on the New Facebook. Um, yay? Did we want that?
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