Comments (0)

By Tai, February 6, 2010 7:01 pm

1. It received least resistance among users among recent changes. Partly because this design leaves the feed unchanged.
2. Control items were changed. The left menu gives me the immediate impression of a Microsoft Task Bar.
3. The search bar is moved in between, centralizing social search and reminding me of Google. Of course, search is powered by Microsoft Bing.
4. Strategic move: high-light(er) applications and games without interfering with news feed. War with Apple apps?
5. Personally I like the idea of utilizing Facebook as a news reader. Apparently it can’t replace Google Reader and Twitter, but many people I care about are on Facebook, not Twitter.

Conclusion: this is what I believe a web platform should be like.

Addendum

Point (4):

Become stronger a platform for web apps. This looks like Facebook follows the path of Apple to lock-in developers.