a look at the new facebook

There are a number of things in the new fb that are a #Win. Here are just a few

1. The right activity bar that shows you what others are doing even thought they might not think they're being seen. Remember when I said that most people are usually online? These ones who just hide theirs activity and just don't want you to know that they've been online. Now every time they like a page, comment on their own photo, status, activity or someone else's you will know thanks to the sidebar on the left.

2. Subscribing to people's updates is a really nice idea especially when they've not put up privacy for their updates. Sort of copies twitters follow style but it's a nice way to get someone's update without them having to be listed as a friend on your profile. #Win

3. Favorites are also another thing I think will help me see what content I want to see. You don't exactly want to see a certain persons update at some time and maybe you want to see someone's updates at another certain time. A good distinction is during weekdays and at weekends. You can agree that the talk on the feed is usually different for different people on your live feed

4. Recent Stories and 'From Earlier that day' You may want to see what's latest and what interesting happened earlier that day. However I may never know what criteria they use to arrive at what's interesting for you especially now that what interests different people doesn't necessarily follow a pattern, formula or curve on a Cartesian plane

word is, anybody who writes code, design or is involved in thinking about the development of a part of an application appreciates what facebook has done to come up with the new site