Comments on: Is Facebook’s redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else?

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By: PanchoPepe

PanchoPepe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:03:57 +0000

Seriously… show of hands for those whose browsers would lock up while trying to get in touch with others in the “flat” single page layout?… it was great with a few of THEIR apps… but once the world came in and loaded … with RAW code (it ain't even worth thinking of it as Betas, that's how bad some of these applets were) some pages? did anyone notice the amount of image fragments? and just plain indigestions with the Java Runtime and what not???

So I think they did the right thing; you want your stuff, put it where it belongs, if you're just stopping by to say hi, poke or otherwise write asinine comments on people's status-es, you do it and you're gone!… so you can go to your next victim… I mean, “friend”…

Ciao!!!

By: PanchoPepe

PanchoPepe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:03:28 +0000

Ciao!!!

By: As Facebook rolls out new redesign, 2.5 million users are already protesting » VentureBeat

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:17:15 +0000

[...] While I’ve personally really liked the new profile — it helps me find interesting information faster, as it intends to do — I’ve also been concerned that this is not what most people care about. Most people seem to care about looking at profile pages, playing with apps, etc. As I wrote in June: “Is Facebook’s redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else?” [...]

By: The Facebook redesign is slowly being accepted as it slowly rolls out » VentureBeat

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:55 +0000

[...] through related third-party reports (redesign is good for sharing information), anecdotal evidence (redesign is confusing) and my own opinion (redesign is the [...]

By: Facebook’s forthcoming iPhone app to be more like its web site; that site redesign was no coincidence » VentureBeat

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:54:40 +0000

[...] to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September, that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the site redesign, maybe, was to make it easier to replicate on [...]

By: Facebook news feeds get more useful through new filtering options » VentureBeat

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:15:12 +0000

[...] — how many people sort their Facebook friends into lists, by the way? — or the redesign in general. But that’s Facebook’s problem; personally, I’m happy with the [...]

By: tiara.org » Link roundup for July 24, 2008

tiara.org » Link roundup for July 24, 2008 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:34:48 +0000

[...] roundup for July 24, 2008 July 24, 2008 on 1:30 am | In delicious | Is Facebook’s redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else? » VentureBeat Nice article about how FB is retooling to aim to “serious” users rather than those who [...]

By: The New Facebook: ein gelungener Relaunch auf datenschmutz.net

The New Facebook: ein gelungener Relaunch auf datenschmutz.net — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:44:10 +0000

[...] Venturebeats findet allerdings, dass sich das neue Design zu sehr an “Early Web 2.0 Adopters” richtet (die deren Meinung nach *nur* in Silicon Valley zuhause sind) [...]

By: What is Facebook for? « Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks

What is Facebook for? « Jacob Kramer-Duffield thinks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:36:15 +0000

[...] 25, 2008 by jkd Alice Marwick directed me to an interesting analysis on Facebook’s redesign, which posits that, Facebook’s new design, as many of us have been [...]

By: Webconomist

Webconomist — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:51:23 +0000

Maybe we're starting to see an evolution in Social Media usage? Could Segmenting in a serious way be taking place? Shalunov seems to have hit on something…Perhaps Facebook will be a more, uhm, conservative approach? Behavioural targeting anyone?

By: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: July 24, 2008

Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: July 24, 2008 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:55:20 +0000

[...] Redesign, Developer Program Perhaps the most important info of the week is the newly launched redesign, which some feel isn’t aimed at mainstream, which some suggest looks like Friendfeed, as well [...]

By: Live-blogging Facebook’s f8 developer conference: Translations, Connect, fundings, and more » VentureBeat

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:21:22 +0000

[...] Now talking about site design. Talking about wall+mini feed in new user profile page. Apps that keep people sharing will be rewarded, not about apps that let users stick static stuff on profiles. [Launched on Monday, we have more thoughts on it here.] [...]

By: Perry

Perry — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:22:16 +0000

Perhaps FB feels the need to focus on reinforcing their core identity. Twitter/FF are showing tremendous momentum (yes, on a small scale, as with any new product) building deep engagement on the fundamental status and sharing model. FB really achieved scale on the backs of the status and feed concept on top of the personal profile publishing (it's developers who added the bling).

My guess is they need to find a deeper level of daily/hourly involvement, which is being proven in TW/FF to win on engagement. The more usage you have, the more you can engage the bling and apps crowd - they will always follow the audience.

Perhaps it's more of a "first things first" approach, not an a vs. b.

my $0.02

By: Joshua March

Joshua March — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:38:55 +0000

A very well written and thought provoking article. However, I would point out that if you look at almost every online/tech-supported behaviour, you generally find that the characteristics of early-adopters and mainstream aren't really that different (although many early adopters like to think they are). The main difference is that early adopters are willing to use the new technologies before they're easy to use.

If you look at the internet, blogs, social networks – all of these tools and technologies were around for years before they went mainstream. What made them go mainstream? It wasn't a change in behaviour; it was a change in the technology which made these easy to do.

SO – yeah, currently many of the the behaviours regarding sharing of content etc is only carried out by early adopters – but that's just because they're ahead of the curve in the technology that allows them to do that, not because they're more prone to sharing than others, or somehow 'more serious' (as though the only serious people in the world are early tech adopters). Millions of people use Facebook, and they've just made it easy to share content – so could be a big step-change about to happen.