Is Facebook Morphing Into a WebOS?

Facebook keeps on changing, from social network to social toolbox.  The navigation bar and search box move to the top.  The applications, too:

"Clicking on the 'Applications' dropdown will allow you to access all of your applications."

More on the preview site.

While the reporters at Facebook’s re-design discussion focussed primarily on the new tab structure, All Facebook blogger Nick O’Neill, upon considering the screenshots, speculated on a similar track as we did:

"When I saw the images that I posted last night, the first thing that I thought to myself is that Facebook is creating a social toolbar that theoretically can be used anywhere on the web while browsing."

What Facebook really is, is becoming more and more difficult to define.  Is it a social network, a social toolbox, a web browser, or even all at once, a new kind of web “Windows” (with Outlook, Explorer and myriad of applications and programs)?

Finally we seem to get an idea how the long expected WebOS could look and feel.

A worthwhile read is the All Facebook blog to the design discussion ("Facebook Leaves More Questions Than Answers")

Update: Techcrunch also discovered Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design

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Originally posted in German in two (1, 2) parts by Jochen Krisch, translated by Jason Soo.

Comments

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I loved the way you exlpained things. Much better many here

Regards
Kristina