Facebook now has "hide" features and filtering. Nice. - Robert Scoble

New home page comes starting next Wednesday. - Robert Scoble

So it is pretty much FF? - andy brudtkuhl

I bet they missed te oportunity to integrate real attention profiling... - directeur

Yeah - Facebook is completing its transformation into FriendFeed - Chris Saad

Good God let the bitch begin. Last summer that amount of complaining about the re-design was ridiculous. People complained like there was not UX and planning involved. I think the site re-design was a huge improvement. I look forward to the new design as well. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting - does that look like less external app and advert space? It does to me. - Ian D. Nock

Where do the ads go? - Eric

@Chris That's a good thing, sort of. I would rather see FF incorporate more robust profiles and other FB like features, but without the closed model. And you know, more like FF :) - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

I am sure the focus is more on the content now. Videos and pictures adn other media will be grabbing more space in there - Hardeep Singh Dang

looks like FF.... - anna sauce

looks like the nav has been streamlined -- as chris suggests, more like FF -- and the sidebar on right is ? groups, pages? guess we'll see soon enough - Adrian Chan

Facebook had "hide" features in the News Feed around 18 months ago. Remember the thumbs up/thumbs down? - Jamie

Well, they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... - Jemm

Yeah - "hide" has been there - show more of, show less of is very useful, and kicks FriendFeed's butt in terms of intelligence - Jesse Stay

So if FriendFeed is Apple, Facebook is turning into Taiwanese MSI.. ? http://bit.ly/mogsR - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Thomas, LOL. - deerstep

I may reactivate activity on this new FB. But in that case I would do a pure reset of my friend list... Just like "some" did on twitter ;) Not that I have a huge list there, but not _the_ appropriate list - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

I hope they don't sacrifice the amount of information you can view above the fold for larger user pics. - James Simmons

You have to give facebook credit for iterating fast. I think that twitter and facebook should join forces and create a compelling alternative. - Edwin Khodabakchian

no it is getting provocative, really the future will prove it. but FB is playing a loose game - abdellah

it cost time money and resource to re-educated an audience, the large the audience the large the expenses, and FB audience is large how much it will cost to re-educate such audience to act like FF people do. - abdellah

Can't believe this - no originality. Complete rip. - James Hull

The complaints of "I don't understand Friendfeed" will have not weight if people use the new Facebook interface. - Andy Bakun

is this the silicon valley equivalent of waking up next to the severed head of your favorite horse? "we can steal your UI at any time, friendfeed. remember that." - Karim

That will work much better, although I'm getting used to ignoring the right hand column, I'll need to get used to ignoring the left hand column again. ;) - Daniel W. Crompton

Why so much hype around new FB page? Like you use it more than FRF ;) - Sasha Kovaliov

Sasha: this is a huge change. Not because of what you see, but because businesses and brands now are full members of the social graph. That will be an impact you'll feel over next two years. - Robert Scoble

well, full members if you fan or friend them. But you don't have to. And then they invade you less than they would on Twitter. - Prokofy Neva

Robert, agree. However, FB has to work hard these 2 years to make itself destination #1 on the web. I hardly go there - all important things just hit RSS or email. I wish RSS had more 2-way interaction. - Sasha Kovaliov

the FB move, is just an other move toward a more social service, some have to confess that in FB there is an equivalent of bull, even it is a social website, it is a set of million bull and those (family friend reduced set restraint) suffer from inter-bull interaction, this FB is to bring more interaction between people from different bull and this will be provided but the concept of fellower. and feed commenting like etc. is it risky!! yes - abdellah

how to argue that such feature can be a bad move for FB, just see the "group" evolution in FB. in FB people want one thing "be in a closed relation with their known relations", would people be open mind in FB and open their own bull to others bull!! this is all what future will tell. - abdellah

Sasha: That's why FriendFeed is so much better than Facebook. the ability for RSS to be embeded in your feed and be able to carry on a conversation about a storry in that RSS feed on FriendFeed is what makes FF so amazing. BUT, i don't know if i'd want everyone on FF to have the same access that friends on FB have access to about me. That's the problem. We need two sites for this unless someone can come up with way to make a profile partially private and available to only those you trust. That's key. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

@Slayerboy, do you think that's why we don't have this extensive profiles (read "no profiles") on FRF? - Sasha Kovaliov

I think the new facebook homepage looks awesome. Some interesting changes are definitely taking place. The new input bar which you can just see will completely transform the service by placing an even greater focus on sharing media. No longer will it simply be a status update but an all in one sharing feature - Benno

@Sashe, yeah I think that's one of the reasons. I believe in openness and all that, but am not blind to the fact that a majority of people even have problems putting stuff on their facebook profile when they CAN set privacy settings. I think Facebook has a good idea with the whole Network thing, but there's no real communication there. If FF applied the network idea and let me specify who I want in my "Friends" and in my "Network", friends can access my profile, network can't, but we can all converse. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

.....it would make it much easier and we wouldn't need two sites for this. I think that's what FF does with Rooms, but again, privacy vs non-privacy is an issue for profiles. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

@Slayerboy I like the way Flickr does it - on adding a friend you mark them as a contact, friend or family. Cool idea that should be easy to implement and would save us from rooms and other stuff. - Sasha Kovaliov

@Sasha interesting, I use Picasa and just share the feed on FF. Never got into Flickr. Can't imagine it'd be hard to implement that on FF then. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Facebook now has Friendfeed! YATTAAA! :-) - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

It seems to me like only the social media experts would compare Friendfeed/Twitter with Facebook. The rest look at them as apples and oranges. They are used differently - Andre P. Siregar

Andre, what do you mean by social media experts? - abdellah

I think the term 'social media experts' is used in this context to indicate 'stupid dumb-ass charlatans'. Hope that clarifies. ;-) - David Petherick from twhirl

so, may be I am one of them :) David - abdellah

Thanks, David :-). Although I would put it less harshly. - Andre P. Siregar

are you sure?!! I am still waiting for your definition Andre. what is a social media expert? - abdellah

Abdellah, here's all I'm saying. There's been tons of serious discussions on Friendfeed/Twitter and Facebook, allegations and accusations that one copies the other, etc. etc. I don't understand why spend the energy. The majority of the 175mill Facebook users are there simply to connect with actual friends. Simple example: I respect Robert Scoble's opinion on new technology, but I don't care what he is doing at home tonight. But I do want to know what my sister is doing, 1000 miles away - Andre P. Siregar

Andre, I respect your opinion and how you use social service, now I was about the label of "social media expert" , I hope that you aren't about self claimed guru, that all. we are all expert and none is :) peace. - abdellah

The new Facebook Page layout makes it more difficult to highlight video content. Video is now relegated to tabs or below the immovable Fans box on the Wall page. Not great if video is a key part of your content strategy and you want to make it prominent. - Simon Taylor

I like the new setup as I updated my company's page yesterday. I approve FB! - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

I'm not going back to Facebook - my mom's on it now:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Facebook is the Microsoft of 2009, mimicking FF, Twitter, slowly taking shape as THE communications platform for the masses. Big mistake turning FB Pages into a profile page, though, businesses lose any branding. Looks like a college kid designed it. - mark ivey

看上去结构更清晰 - 阿石