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Leave it to Matt to always go against the grain of conventional wisdom. I definitely agree that Facebook has balls pulling out this redesign but I do not agree
by markm 18y ago
Leave it to Matt to always go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
I definitely agree that Facebook has balls pulling out this redesign but I do not agree that the design is for the better.
My thoughts on the new facebook homepage:
http://blog.clutterme.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-new-facebook-homepage.html http://blog.clutterme.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-new-facebook-h...
* It's going to stink for apps.
* Facebook is killing its own page views
On the converse side, the redesign is a definite upper for brands and the visibility of their pages:
Mashable talks about some of the effects that the redesign has had on its Facebook Page,
http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/new-facebook-brands/ http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/new-facebook-brands/
- swombat 18y ago* It's going to stink for apps. Apps stunk for the user experience anyway. They were an experiment gone horribly wrong.
- whughes 18y agoWould you consider a pageview decrease a downside? Even though they may lose some ad revenue (I don't know the details), their bandwidth costs may dip a bit, and ads aren't their real path to monetization anyway. I'm not sure it really matters as much to their long-term vision as apps.