New Facebook Profile to Launch Next Week
Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 7th, 2008 11:14 PMGet ready for the new profile design to go live. Next week users will be able to start accessing the new profile design the week of July 14th. This will include the entire redesign which includes a redesign of the homepage and all other pages. Currently developers have been able to access the newly designed site for updating their applications. Many believe that new profile is going to negatively impact the viral growth of a lot of of the applications.
Facebook has yet to release any images of what the updated site will look like and probably won’t until the beta version is pushed live. Expect big changes though considering the new navigation bar and simplified profile design. The changes are substantial but Facebook has clearly prepped the developers thoroughly for the upcoming changes. There are a few main changes that Facebook suggests you make sure you’ve taken care of with your applications:
- Start using require_login instead of require_add
- Account for the changes to user_sessions.
- Prepare your application for the new profile boxes
This is a huge change that many developers have been preparing for. It will be interesting to see how the usage statistics change or if they do at all with the launch of the new profile.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I was just playing around in the developer preview and noticed some interesting options in the “Friends” edit box. You can now select how many friends are shown, and even select certain friends to always show. This seems to replace much of the functionality of the popular Top Friends app.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I was just playing around in the developer preview and noticed some interesting options in the “Friends” edit box. You can now select how many friends are shown, and even select certain friends to always show. This seems to replace much of the functionality of the popular Top Friends app.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:04 am
I love this bit:
“Facebook has clearly prepped the developers”
It seems there is no PHP4 client library available yet, and PHP is the official, supported language of Facebook.
Also, how users opt-in for email is still an open question - 1 week before unleashing this on the world.
This is going to be interesting, sadly with a Chinese proverb definition of “interesting”.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:04 am
I love this bit:
“Facebook has clearly prepped the developers”
It seems there is no PHP4 client library available yet, and PHP is the official, supported language of Facebook.
Also, how users opt-in for email is still an open question - 1 week before unleashing this on the world.
This is going to be interesting, sadly with a Chinese proverb definition of “interesting”.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
unleashing it on the world - well not quite, I would call it ‘willing volunteers’ LOL (Facebook would have a similar term)
new.facebook.com/profile.php (forces a error) - for the developers this surely will not be ‘helpful’ and i sure if facebook gives a more firm time applications will press with there New Application designs for then
‘Coming Soon’ will become Coming July x *
As it did not say Monday 14th July but the W/C 14th July it could also be on 20th July (the date the naive to change developers will be hoping for)
i hope they also do a search inbox on us and not fob off developers and the profiles preview ‘fans’ by doing a FB Chat gradual roll out of the opt in.
* for Superwall, Funwall etc and applications that have a Facebook alternative coming soon might be RIP day!
July 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
unleashing it on the world - well not quite, I would call it ‘willing volunteers’ LOL (Facebook would have a similar term)
new.facebook.com/profile.php (forces a error) - for the developers this surely will not be ‘helpful’ and i sure if facebook gives a more firm time applications will press with there New Application designs for then
‘Coming Soon’ will become Coming July x *
As it did not say Monday 14th July but the W/C 14th July it could also be on 20th July (the date the naive to change developers will be hoping for)
i hope they also do a search inbox on us and not fob off developers and the profiles preview ‘fans’ by doing a FB Chat gradual roll out of the opt in.
* for Superwall, Funwall etc and applications that have a Facebook alternative coming soon might be RIP day!