Everyone’s known that timeline would eventually become the official profile on Facebook and yet the news of the imminent switch has tensions rising.

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Facebook has redesigned group administrators’ pages to look a bit more like profiles.

Navigational links have moved up the page to pulldown menus within buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

The rightmost button has the exact same design as the link on personal profiles for the pulldown menu containing the poke button.

Additionally, the page displays the number of photos and documents toward the top left side of the page the top, beneath the name of the group.

These changes together open up enough space in the right-hand column for two advertisements and two panels suggesting other parts of Facebook, according to our most esteemed sibling blog Inside Facebook.

Readers, what do you think of the new layout for group administrators’ pages?

Facebook appears to be testing a feature for page administrators to order comments based on the posters’ popularity, in addition to chronological ordering.
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You can now tag photos with the names of pages, in addition to people on your friends list who haven’t opted out of the capability in their security settings. This drastically improves upon even the promised enhancements originally announced in the middle of December, making the feature very much worth the extra wait.
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Facebook users finally have the ability to remove themselves from their friends’ photo tagging suggestions, by customizing privacy settings.
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Fellow CrackBerry addicts, a new and improved version of Facebook has become available in Blackberry AppWorld. But like any Research In Motion upgrade, the more advanced your device is, the more features you actually get to enjoy.
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Facebook has dominated news headlines over the past year, especially when the social network reached the 500 million user mark this July.
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Facebook just unveiled a new profile today and apparently Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on CBS “60 Minutes” tonight was going to be the formal announcement.

The social network posted on its own blog about the new profiles early this afternoon, giving the media plenty of time to test drive the new features before “60 Minutes” airs.

The video intended to explain the new features only shows, not tells the changes. I suspect this has the intention of mollifying the masses who complain every time Facebook revamps the user interface.

Call me one of the complainers. It seems like important profile data gets lost with every new iteration, and once again I’m finding myself having to re-enter things that I know I’ve already typed in a couple of times before.

While it looks like key personal data and photos appear more prominently across the top, so far I have yet to see any of this as an improvement. If I could move my Visual Bookshelf data to the top of the screen, I’d probably like this upgrade better, but that’s just me.

Also, I had read that the “poke” feature was going to gain new prominence in this profile upgrade. But I’m just not seeing it prominently enough, which is too bad: I’ve exchanged pokes on a near-daily basis with three different friends ever since we all got accounts on Facebook in 2007. We must be part of a minority.

So, readers, what do you think of all the changes? Do the new profiles improve upon the previous ones, or is this just a hassle?

Last week reports began surfacing that Facebook was now prompting users to invite their Skype friends to Facebook. Now, Facebook is testing deeper integration which enables Skype users to start calls, chat, and send files if their friends on the service. While we’ve received at least one report, we aren’t quite sure if this is a feature being tested by Facebook or if this something that is part of an upgraded Skype application.
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The publisher is rapidly becoming the central tool for publishing information through Facebook to the feed, with events being the latest product to integrate the feature. This evening Facebook began rolling out an upgraded version of events which places a publisher directly within the wall, enabling event administrators to publish content with tags. We believe that all confirmed attendees will also see the content within their stream. (See update below)
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