Analyzing Facebook’s Forthcoming Redesign

December 27th, 2009 admin

Topics: facebook, GigaOM, om's posts, social networks, social web, web

Last week, a source emailed us two screenshots of Facebook’s forthcoming redesign. While it is still a work in progress, it shows some simple yet major enhancements that reveal where world’s largest social network with over 350 million subscribers might be headed. For starters, Facebook seems to be headed back to its roots, emphasizing fidelity instead of noise in its news feed. Here are some of the changes: The navigation bar is reorganized and thank fully it seems like they are moving the duplicate profile link. The name and profile links didn’t make much sense to begin with. The search is now next to Facebook logo, a clear sign that Facebook wants search to play a major role in the future. Searching for brands, events, companies and celebrities will be a big factor. By combining settings and login in…

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