Facebook keeps on changing, from social network to social toolbox. The navigation bar and search box move to the top. The applications, too:
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"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
Originally posted in German in two (1, 2) parts by Jochen Krisch, translated by Jason Soo.




I loved the way you exlpained things. Much better many here
Regards
Kristina
Posted by: Empty Ink Cartridges | 11/09/2009 at 02:56 PM