[markm]

Leave it to Matt to always go against the grain of conventional wisdom.

I definitely agree that Facebook has balls pulling out this redesign but I do not agree that the design is for the better.

My thoughts on the new facebook homepage: http://blog.clutterme.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-new-facebook-h...

    * It's going to stink for apps.
    * Facebook is killing its own page views

On the converse side, the redesign is a definite upper for brands and the visibility of their pages:

Mashable talks about some of the effects that the redesign has had on its Facebook Page, http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/new-facebook-brands/

[swombat]

    * It's going to stink for apps.

Apps stunk for the user experience anyway. They were an experiment gone horribly wrong.

[whughes]

Would you consider a pageview decrease a downside? Even though they may lose some ad revenue (I don't know the details), their bandwidth costs may dip a bit, and ads aren't their real path to monetization anyway. I'm not sure it really matters as much to their long-term vision as apps.