![]() ![]() Today at its F8 developers' conference, Facebook will announce a plan to give favored widgets…īut guess who's been dissing Facebook's redesign on Facebook? iLike CEO Ali Partovi and Project Agape's Joe Green. Facebook execs to favor widgets built by investors, relatives Project Agape is backed by former Facebook president Sean Parker, who still owns an estimated 5 percent stake in the company. The favored few include iLike, a music app, and Causes, an app built by a startup called Project Agape which helps people rally their friends to various social issues.īoth have close ties to Facebook: Marc Bodnick, an influential Valley investor who sits on iLike's board, is the brother-in-law of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. If so, he missed that target badly, too.įacebook has a special program called "Great Apps" to recognize the best third-party add-ons to the social-networking sites. One might argue that Zuckerberg didn't do the design to please the lowest common denominator of users, but instead was trying to win over the cognoscenti of Silicon Valley, who have been buzzing nonstop about Twitter. (Try finding upcoming events, for example, or looking for updates on new friends people have made.)Ī Facebook application built to poll users on the design is running 94 percent against the new design, with some 716,000 "no" votes against 44,000 "yes" votes. But in adopting Twitter's simplified look, Facebook threw out or hid a whole host of features users have grown used to. It closely mimics the "timeline" feature of Twitter, a much smaller service which, like Facebook user, allows people to post short messages which are then broadcast to friends. The redesign is built around a new "stream" of status updates. Has Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg been driven mad by envy? In his effort to redesign his social… What Was Mark Zuckerberg Smoking When He Redesigned Facebook? When will Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wake up and realize he made an idiotic mistake by copying Twitter? The Facebook-loving masses loathe the new look - as do Facebook's best pals in Silicon Valley. ![]()
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