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I know the news is soo last week and most people have already blogged about the Facebook redesign but I’m going to give my two cents anyway.

The news of the redesign came a few weeks ago from the Inside Facebook blog. I had actually seen the announcement through Twitter and checked it out for the first time last week. The design is nice and open - a bit confusing at first because I was looking to my side navigation for my groups, photos, friends, applications and now most of the activity is in the upper navigation. Ok I can deal with that. I don’t know if it’s through a default setting or what but my main profile page (wall) in the redesign is completely taken over by the mini-feed. You can of course click through the upper tabs for Info, Photos, Boxes, etc. but I personally don’t like viewing the mini-feed first thing…I already know what I’ve been doing in my account - I don’t need to be reminded.

One of the most obvious things to me in the redesign (remember I am a marketer) is the abundance of white space - ah hem - AD space. Cha Ching! Good for Facebook. I understand that people need to pay their bills and generate some kind of revenue - so good to see they’re thinking it through. Let’s hope the ads stay clean and neat like they have because I can’t stand another MySpace ad.

To get more in depth news and reasoning behind the redesign check out Facebook’s blog, Inside Facebook.