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May 7, 2008 8:18 PM PDT

New Facebook profile page

Posted by Dan Farber

Justin Smith at Inside Facebook has the scoop on Facebook's new profile page design, which will give users more granular controls and application developers some new tricks.

In late May developers will get access to the new code, and users the new interface a few weeks later.

The new Facebook profile will have five tabs: Feed, Info, Wall, Photo, and Boxes. The Boxes can be moved to the main profile area.

(Credit: Inside Facebook)

Read Justin's post for all the details

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by dangtrade May 7, 2008 9:23 PM PDT
nice clean redesign... looking forward to it! thanks for the post, www.dangtrade.com
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by Tsee May 8, 2008 5:27 AM PDT
As a fb user, I don't like it. It looks increasingly like myspace. I like the structure of the current design and you really have to prioritize. The new design seems to encourage the sort of lumping that makes myspace pages unusable - at least for people that don't want to spend all their time on it. I also don't like pages. To me each additional click significantly cuts down on usage. Again, the best solution for me is to prioritize, not to indulge.
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by knowles2 May 8, 2008 9:07 AM PDT
Well being someone who always adding new applications and so fourth this seem ideal. I like indulging in them. I am probably one a few through. But facebook should not force anyone to change and should give the user the choice on which page lay out / design they. And if I was them give the user the ability to create their own seperate page different apps to be place on or just keep everything on one page. Most of all give the user the choice. Through the developers of the apps might moan has to having to do extra coding for this.
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by bernie.mcginn May 8, 2008 5:10 PM PDT
looks interesting, indeed!
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