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Facebook Moving Apps to Your Profile’s “Boxes” Tab
May 7th, 2008
The Facebook Profile Preview team tonight unveiled another screenshot of the upcoming Facebook profile page redesign that shows the new “Boxes” tab for the first time. While the main Feed tab will only have room for 3 app boxes by default, the Boxes tab could potentially house dozens of application profile boxes.
According to Facebook, users will be able to choose which boxes appear on this page directly from the tab itself, and users can move boxes around just like they currently can on the profile. Notably, the two columns on this page leave room for wide-format profile boxes, previously thought to be getting the boot from the profile altogether.
Facebook says that, “Our intention is that the ‘Boxes’ tab can be a good place for your friends to go to learn more about you and your history on Facebook, in addition to learning what sort of applications you like.”
Clearly, Facebook faces tough design decisions here as it attempts to balance and align user and developer interests. Without the “Boxes” tab, many developers were concerned that their profile boxes would disappear altogether when Facebook migrates users to the new profile page design. Do you think that this approach is a good way to strike a balance?
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May 7th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Hell no. Facebook has become increasingly anti-developer. The winner of the platform war goes to the most developer friendly platform. FB ain’t it people.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
grr, i don’t get them. they were indicating this over 2 months back then they indicate the more favored ‘boxes’ that could group what we want (what i prefer) but i want this ‘boxes’ upto 10 so i can group the applications I want not throw every single one into 1 ‘boxes’ tab. this is going to be crowded if anyone has more then 10 applications and this also is moving away from the extended info application and other applications that could joint the About tab (if FB had gave permission and were hinting) - off to have a rant at them
May 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Second thoughts this should be a landing page till a user is bothered to group there applications into tabs that they want.
i like this throw all ‘boxes’ application tab to be hidable when a user creates other tabs to put there application in
its not a user fault if application called ’spam/ junk’ and the user does not want it displayed
currently Facebook allows you to hide application boxes therefore developers should deal with that if a user does not want there application it should not be forced onto a user (some applications are suited to be hidden e.g. vampires, paint me, zombies, warewolves, and some dating applications maybe embarressing
August 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
What a load of poo!
OK, you can add up to 10 tab’s but only a limited amount of these can be displayed at any one time. It’s slow and generally makes everything harder to find, not easier.
If Facebook is going to go for the tabbed approach, then do it properly I would say. Give the user more control and more functionality. If it’s all about making things easier to find, then use an icon mouse over feature. User can hover their mouse over an icon, and the
August 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
…window box will appear. Just idea’s, but all I know is that the current design is bad.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Hi,
we are new developers writing application on facebook. We are having hard time to show up our profile on boxes tab. The profile shows up fine on wall but when we tried to move it to boxes tab we don not see the hrml all it says is
No content to display.
This box will not be visible to people who view your profile until this application adds content to it.
Can anyone pleas elet us know the exact steps to write/create profile on boxes tab with some simple example.
Regards,
VB