Facebook Updates Home Page, Looks More Like Twitter
Facebook pushed a couple changes to the redesigned home page tonight that may be of interest to application developers:
1) Publisher shortcuts for Facebook-developed applications have been removed, and publishing status updates has been promoted.
The new design is reminiscent of the Twitter home page:
Previously, links to your own profile page with the Publisher selected for posting photos, videos, notes, and links were located here.
2) Status updates have been removed from the right rail, and application bookmarks have been promoted. Now, status updates are only accessible within the Top Stories feed or filtered Status Updates feed.
New:
Old:
3) And finally, some UI elements have been cleaned up, which may satisfy picky designers.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:45 am
It looks horrible!
It looked MUCH better yesterday before this horrible update.
It now looks way too bland & the handy publisher links have been removed.
Also, the nice message “Welcome, Calum” has been replaced by some horrible massive, out of place, status update box.
The right panel no longer has the nice underline (or HR) thing under the titles of each panel & that just helps to make it look blander.
It really doesn’t look nice!
It should definately be put back to how it was the other day! It looked much cleaner & much less bland. It’s ugly to look at now.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:54 am
I woke up here in the UK this morning and noticed these changes, i am not sure i like the move towards a twitter like look.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I’m a little confused why you guys are only writing about this now? I’ve had these changes for nearly a month already.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Good observation. Plus many congratulations to your friend ‘Smudge’ for getting a girl/boyfriend.
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March 28th, 2009 at 10:12 am
ok
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February 8th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
how can i update this to my profile?
February 10th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Don’t like the new look at all…Gimme the old.