First Screenshots of Facebook Platform Changes

We’re here at Facebook headquarters, where Facebook is delivering its first-ever “platform roadmap” to developers. Here’s a first look at changes coming in the next few months.

1. Gaming Dashboard

2. Branding on Canvas Pages

3. Application Navigation

4. Application Counters

5. Moving user-to-user communication to the Inbox

6. Invites in the new inbox

7. Updated Insights

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18 Responses to “First Screenshots of Facebook Platform Changes”

  1. Tadhg Kelly says:

    Looks like it’ll be a confusing time for notification-reliant apps then. However also it looks like the changes will reward better engaging apps more.

    Good.

  2. Navarr Barnier says:

    Well, this looks good for the game apps I’m planning. But what of my apps that currently just extend a part of the Facebook user’s profile?

    Looks like I’m a duck in the water =\

  3. Jonathan Bradley says:

    If you all keep changing it all the time, people are going to start getting pissed fast. You all should let people get used to something that works and leave it.

  4. Eric Godfrey says:

    @Jonathan – I recommend you ditch the cell phone and go back to a land line. Those worked.

  5. Andy Ang says:

    First thought is that my inbox will be burst!

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  7. HP Israel says:

    We can’t wait for the new insights layout!
    thanks for posting this

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  10. Matthias Karcher says:

    Thank you for this article.

    I have a question to the facebook sites:
    Does this mean that new posts on a site land in the Inbox and not in the livestream?

    Matthias, Berlin, Germany.

  11. Eric Ronne says:

    Hey thanks for the article. It’d be great if all screenshots linked to full-size images, btw. ;)

  12. Damian says:

    I wonder… with the left navigation will the available canvas size for the app to be cropped?

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  15. Facebook Applications Developer says:

    These changes are really cool specially the fifth one. I really like it.

  16. Search Engine Optimization Cape Town says:

    Looks like an improvement to me, especially insights update. Once again, with all the changes, I look forward to being spammed by wanting to ‘change facebook back!’ hehe :)

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