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The Facebook redesign is officially launching tonight, though it’s not exactly clear to exactly how many users yet. You can try accessing the new home page at www.new.facebook.com. So far, users from several networks have been able to access it.
Inside Facebook has a first look at the new Facebook home page. Here’s what’s new:
1. Publisher Shortcuts
At the top of the new home page is a menu of links to your most popular Publisher applications. By default, these are all Facebook-built applications, but if these links follow the same rules as the profile page Publisher app list, third party apps should automatically be moved into these slots with frequent use. This gives very high prominence to content creation on your own profile within Facebook.
2. Application Bookmarks
For the first time since the Platform launched, applications now have a presence inside the Facebook 
home page. The Bookmarks section highlights applications you’ve bookmarked, and if you haven’t bookmarked 8 apps, the section is backfilled with apps you’ve recently or frequently used. Facebook could obviously expand the home page presence of applications in the future (a la MySpace) - one could argue it could be a great way to cut down on application invite & notification spam - but this is a good start for developers.
3. Navigation Menus Moved
As you can see, Facebook’s left nav is no more. Now, Applications are accessed from the Applications menu at the top of the page. The menu lists bookmarked and recently used applications first, and then all the rest. In addition, Search is now accessed on the right side of the top nav bar. Auto-complete is not yet enabled like it was on the old site. Finally, ads are no longer available in the left rail as well. They’ll be moving to the right rail in the new profile page, but it’s not clear if there will be any ads on the home page outisde of the News Feed.
Conclusion
Overall, the new home page is very clean and shows Facebook’s new priorities: content creation on the Wall - both your friends’ and your own. Overall, the new Facebook contains elements of FriendFeed (feed item commenting) and Twitter (focus on status updates) while applications have been largely pushed out of prime view on the profile page. Just how big the effects will be for the application economy remain to be seen.
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July 20th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
The new home page is much better suited for advertising.
1) Facebook can now include the popular 300×250 ad unit… Before this FB could only use the odd 120×600.
2) FB’s ad strategy are ads within the news feed. The wider and more focused view on the news feed should help their inline advertising campaigns.
(who is FB’s competition in advertising that everyone except FB is overlooking? FriendFeed)
Overall impression - Congrats, the new home page is a much better design for the Facebook advertising team. We should see revenues jump considerably.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
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July 21st, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hey Justin,
It’ll be interesting to see the responses from FB users to these new changes. I’m in the San Diego Network and don’t see the new and improved profile just yet… I know the rollout is over a few days.
I’m all for content creation on the Wall - I always tell my students to drag their wall as far up as they can. Sounds like this’ll be default now anyway. Must say, I am loving the new MiniFeed Comment feature added recently!
Cheers,
Mari
@marismith
July 21st, 2008 at 1:26 am
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July 21st, 2008 at 2:37 am
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July 21st, 2008 at 4:29 am
[...] text box at the top encouraging them to update their status. For more details on the updates, see Inside Facebook and All [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 5:12 am
[...] the new look and feel of the site with its cleaner interface. I think every blogger has mentioned the cleaner interface and it can not be argued that it is cleaner. Yes, Facebook apps developers are already unhappy [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 6:44 am
[...] It is clear that the new Facebook will be somewhat different from your current version. To see what the new one will look like, you can login to http://www.new.facebook.com. These are the main differences (ala Tech Crunch): The biggest visual change people will see on the home page - the combination of status updates, wall posts and news feed items into a single content stream. On the profile page status updates and other mini-feed items are also combined, and users are shown a big text box at the top encouraging them to update their status. For more details on the updates, see Inside Facebook [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
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July 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
[...] Navigation rethought - The page is leaner. There’s no more application navigation bar. Instead app nav duty has been split between the menu bar and the variety of boxes and tabs announced earlier. (InsideFacebook) [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
[...] この新サイトは月曜一般公開となる見通し。公開前でもwww.new.facebook.comにログインすれば誰でも新プロフィールが見れる。このホームページでみんなの目に入る一番大きなビジュアルの変更点は、ステータス更新、ウォールの書き込み、ニュースフィード記事がひとつに合体し、コンテンツストリーム1本にまとまった点だろう。プロフィールページのステータス更新とかミニフィードアイテムもやっぱし一つにまとめられている。ユーザーには大きなテキストボックスをトップに表示して、そこでステータスを更新するよう促している。ステータス機能の詳細はInside FacebookとAll Facebookへ。 [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
[...] is message box to post your status message, the box seems to be inspired from Twitter. More at Inside Facebook, All [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
does anyone know when all users will be able to access the new design. as of now, i can not.
thank you!
–nanc
July 25th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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July 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
[...] news of the redesign came a few weeks ago from the Inside Facebook blog. I had actually seen the announcement through Twitter and checked it out for the first time [...]
July 28th, 2008 at 1:07 am
[...] it comes to giving your brand and your business a place in their network. With the launch of the redesigned profile page this has become even more evident: users have taken first priority in the new design, but nothing [...]
July 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Really not digging the redesign, at least aesthetically. I feel like it lost a lot of its structure and cleanliness when it lost its borders.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:29 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Dislike the new design very much. in old facebook users could select and combine favourite images and apps to create an instantly accessible home–so great to escape to during a long hard day on the pc. The new version reduces aesthetic choice, increases time wasted on clicking, and looks like glorified email. It’s boring.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Not enjoying it after several days of use. As Mo Meiji aptly put it, it looks like glorified email. Combining the wall with the mini-feed makes looking at an individual’s page disorienting. It’s difficult to get what you need quickly. It’s no longer just a wall - all of the things that once cluttered the mini-feed are now a part of a profile.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I, too, disagree with the News Feed. When I finally got the new interface I instantly felt like it was a mistake. Not due to privacy, but rather design. It is hard to read and the page now looks just as cluttered to me as some older pages with apps… just in a different way. People are lazy… they don’t want to have to click a filter button to sort content, only to have the News Feed revert back to the cluttered “view all” mode each time the refresh the page or log back in.
And, what is the deal with hiding the info of people behind a tab? The PURPOSE of the profile page is to quickly learn about people. I’ll probably click that tab on someone one or two times in a millennium, but having that info out and readable on the old design I probably read most of that info when I went to someone’s profile. Nobody is going to click on those tabs on a regular basis.
Ryan
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am
How do i get the new facebook look
September 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
quiero la antigua vercion de facebook
como puedo ingresar a ella lo antes posible.
por fabor ….. gracias
September 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I like the new look but I’m getting tons of error messages, lost feeds, etc that I didn’t have in the previous version
September 28th, 2008 at 7:15 am
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October 1st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
[...] Facebook’s redesign, they added the nifty ability to directly comment on someone’s ’status’. Watching [...]
December 11th, 2008 at 8:26 am
wats up
December 19th, 2008 at 5:16 am
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February 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 am
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