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Facebook announces upcoming homepage redesign

Facebook old and new
Facebook plans to launch a new homepage, with a focus on activity streams. The social networking site has long had a section called the "news feed" which provides updates from your network of contacts. But the difference between that feed and the new stream is that users will start seeing updates on their homepages in real time.

You'll also be able to adjust what's displayed in your activity stream by using a navigation menu on the left side of the screen to filter results by groups or specific applications. For example, if you only want information about what books your friends have read recently, you just click on the appropriate app in the sidebar.

Facebook is also making Pages more like user profiles, which means you can get status updates from page owners. This will also let users have more than 5,000 friends by creating a Page.

The new features will be available via a preview page later today. The goal is to push them out to all users next Wednesday.

[via Business Insider and CNet]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

MyBlogLog starts logging all your social network activity

MyBlogLog activity streams
You're on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Digg, Flickr, and a thousand other social networking sites. But keeping up with your friends and contacts on each site could be a full time job. Or you could sign up for a single service that lets you view your contacts' activity on a single page.

FriendFeed
is a service that launched last week, which does exactly that. But the service didn't get hog the spotlight very long, as Yahoo!'s MyBlogLog has launched a feature this week that lets members track their friends' activity streams.

Existing MyBlogLog members should notice the change right away. Your new profile page will feature all of your recent blogging activity. And if you've already added other social networking service to your profile, you should see updates for those as well. When you click on the "my neighborhood" button you'll see an activity stream with updates from your MyBlogLog members who use those services.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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