30th November

New Facebook design coming

by Brian Stuckey | Posted in News   Comments Off

This morning, Mashable published an interesting analysis of the new Facebook home page design.  Their interpretation is that it is largely a gradual evolutionary change to the design in order to encourage more user interactions.  I tend to agree with their interpretation but the fact that user search is being continuously moved to the forefront of the application should signal their priorities.

When Microsoft invested in Facebook back in 2007, about the only thing they got (in addition to their 5% stake) was Live Search added to the Facebook search options.  Now, it seems like search and real-time news/updates are a real priority.  Clearly, with a nearly 350,000,000 user base, they can have some pull on the internet.  Is this their way of hedging their bets against Google?  Against Twitter becoming the real-time-news-king?  We’ll have to wait to see.

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via Mashable

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