Redesigned Timeline coming soon

FaceBook has an invite only event coming up on Thursday at 10 AM. They are set to unveil a new look for your news feed. Just a couple months after the graph search conference, this should be interesting. My predictions are as follows: A) People will hate it at first. Anything FaceBook does, people hate at first. They could be offering a million dollars to everyone who logged on today, and people would hate it. B) The purpose of the new news feed is to put more ads on it.


"Author Josh Constine swears he saw the updated software running on a smartphone with his own two eyes. The upcoming News Feed, he says, creates two separate feeds, each for a few different content types including news and photos.

Users navigate between them by swiping sideways on a photo that serves as a header tile filling the top quarter or so of a portrait layout iPhone screen. Below the header is a larger body tile that takes up most of the rest of the screen. From what I saw, it shows one story at a time, with text and who posted it laid on top of a full-screen image.

For example, instead of the screenshot above where most of the screen is taken up with white, blue, and gray chrome and empty space, the app looks like the mock-up below.

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Below is a picture of the invitation sent out.