If Facebook’s current use of AJAX is any indication of continued trends for the website we can safely assume that each time a person clicks a tab that a check at the server is performed to see if any new content has been updated for that tab. If there is new content for that tab then Facebook can stream back the HTML for that tab and update it a la appearing client side with no post-backs and page refreshes.

Facebook is infinitely cleaner than MySpace, however I am really beginning to hate all the requests from applications… and until now I don’t know how to avoid all those requests.

- AG

Yeah, it does seem like the wall has been rolled up into the news feed. Be pretty nice as long as they have some sorting options at some point. We’ll be interested in seeing how the profiles handle newer apps on the wall tab if they allow narrow only or if wide will still be there (probably, but you never know).

Application tabs however are going to be the first thing abused by spammers. Guaranteed.

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A page with no wall for feedback.

Facebook wante you to email comments to them so that they can track.

The issue is that they are really using this PAGE as a way to disseminate information and not to collect valuable feedback.

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The caption on the screenshot from the group specifically states that they’re merging the wall and news feed:
“The new Wall tab displays recent Wall posts as well as recent photos, posted items, updated status messages, and other new content. This makes your friends’ Walls more relevant and more integrated into their profiles.”

… so theres more room for advertising

E.g. if Facebook wants to be everybody’s hub and start-point on the web they can now offer a tab that offers a start page type experience to allow people to go further in consolidating all their favorite content, tools and services, and the user can opt to keep it private for their own consumption (e.g. email and other private things), or share elements that they want to (so it would be kind of combining the start page proposition with the consolidated activity feed proposition, a la friendfeed, helping to take on both of these types of competitors). It would kind of be the reverse of what Netvibes is doing with their latest release where they’ve now introduced social networking functionality to their start page proposition. And it would be all about keeping users on Facebook longer, and making it everybody’s first port of call on the web.

Am sure that there are other areas that they’ve got an eye on by doing this, but I think it’s a smart move both for the good of the current site and in creating the potential to expand out into new areas (and following on from CAR’s comment above I guess one big tab could be ‘SEARCH’, with a nice big search box and results page, to give the Microsoft ads a better home on Facebook, to try and grab a bit of Google’s market share and to really embed web search into the Facebook experience).

And if diversification is what they’re looking at then as long as it’s designed well - and people can chose how they want to use Facebook without things being forced on them - then I think James Gillmore’s concern (comment above) about dilution/loss of popularity can be side-stepped.

There, that’s my comment for the day!

I think there is a whole different path Facebook could have been taking. I’m not sure what it is, but, I think the whole minimal thing was their biggest selling point.

Am I alone with this thought/prediction?

James
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it’s not some disruptive concept… but it’s about time.