In an article posted from on their blog, the Facebook developers put their new homepage online for us all to see. I actually noticed the change before I saw the post in my reader and my first impressions are good. Some of the things they have done in the past have taken away functionality and in tern made the experience a little less fluid. This change moves things around on the screen and seems to make navigation more intuitive.

The now have moved notifications to the top bar and cleaned them up. Notifications, messages and requests are now 3 spearate icons as seen here.

A revision to the left menu didn’t actually catch my eye at first. They have centralized more there now for easier access.

The left menu has been organized to make it easier for you to communicate with and discover content from your friends. You can now access your messages and other core features all in one place, to the left of your News Feed.

And the last major change is how you interact with games and applications. Now a dashboard with everything centralized. This may be important to some, but the games don’t really catch me at all. If you do play games or connect to a lot of apps, a dashboard idea like this is great.

Have fun with the new changes!

Geek on!

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I have seen this done before and it’s always a laugh. Steve Jobs knows what he is doing when he presents and it helps that the people in the audience generally are Apple fans, but when you strip down his presentation to this – it’s funny!

The following was done by Niel Curtis (www.neilcurtis.com/).

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It’s probably not why you think I would want them to… I am juts sick of hearing about it. I debated on actually posting this article because it just feels like I am pouring gas into the fire.

The tablet if real will be cool, I am sure I would like it. What is driving me crazy is all the hype over it. This scenario is quite similar to a great movie release when your friends spend 3 days telling that it’s the best movie ever – only to be disappointed when you actually see it. Expectations way to high and then ‘feh’, you can take it or leave it in the end.

Hype is good for Apple – they are doing a great job at generating it. Most of the rumours that surround this probably are leaked on purpose as part of their entire marketing plan.

I wonder if this is because I am bitter. I probably would have a hard time justifying the purchase of one of their tablets because it’s so niche anyhow. I admit it – I would love to own all Apple stuff, just don’t due to money.

All that said – I hope today is the day and we can start hearing reviews instead of speculation.

Geek on!