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By: Orkut Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter

Orkut Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:41:05 +0000

[...] Orkut announced that it is rolling out a complete redesign. The new site is faster and, like every other social network these days, puts the activity stream front and center. Orkut has actually reduced the number of [...]

By: Orkut Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter

Orkut Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:41:05 +0000

By: Chikabebe

Chikabebe — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:25:27 +0000

Facebook annoys me because it always make my browser to freeze

By: Urolojixmd

Urolojixmd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:25:21 +0000

Redesigning is a mark of changing of the site. So, it may affect the guest’s idea.

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SofaPrat #15 - Facebook trafikk & redesign, #replyfail fra Twitter — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:36:39 +0000

[...] denne episoden snakker Thomas og Arnt om techcrunch sin artikkel som sier at Facebook sin redesign policy har økt besøkstall. De snakker også om twitter og [...]

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sexrev.org» Blog Archive » Wednesday Weekly Wire — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:54:59 +0000

[...] Despite all the complaining, Facebook has added 9 million members since the redesign. [...]

By: Jump into the Stream | Genuine Forex Trading

Jump into the Stream | Genuine Forex Trading — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:04:52 +0000

[...] stages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and Techmeme and Tweetmeme and Ustream and Qik [...]

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[...] Web pages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and Techmeme and Tweetmeme and Ustream and Qik [...]

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Mash123 » Jump Into The Stream — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:47:47 +0000

[...] large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and Techmeme and Tweetmeme [...]

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Jump Into The Stream — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:30:07 +0000

By: Two Geeks and a Blog :: Geek News :: Social sites get boost by copying Twitter

Two Geeks and a Blog :: Geek News :: Social sites get boost by copying Twitter — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:38:03 +0000

[...] was generally being accepted as the best one. Now TechCrunch is reporting that this redesign was the best thing Facebook and Friendfeed could have done. Both sites noted substantial growth after implementing the new [...]

By: Users Embracing Website Redesigns | Marcel Media

Users Embracing Website Redesigns | Marcel Media — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:39:08 +0000

[...] TechCrunch observes that Facebook has been on a steady growth since the redesign. “After flat 0.3 growth in February, Facebook added nearly 4 million unique U.S. visitors in March (up 6.6 percent over February), and another 5 million in April (up 10.3 percent over March) to end at 67.5 million domestic uniques, according to comScore”. Another success in site redesign has been FriendFeed, which incorporated real-time updates to its homepage. FriendFeed saw a 28 percent rise in unique visitors in April. [...]

By: The Praized Blog

The Praized Blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:17:31 +0000

Techcrunch: “Don’t Fight The Stream!”…

From Don’t Fight The Stream: Facebook And FriendFeed Redesigns Are Paying Off on Techcrunch:
When Facebook redesigned its homepage in early March in a wholehearted embrace of the real-time activity stream as its primary user interface, everybody comp…

By: Joshua Finnie

Joshua Finnie — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:27:34 +0000

The analysis looks very shaky, both of these charts look like standard growth with an arrow pointing randomly somewhere in the middle.

I would give it to you that the friendfeed chart has the most distinct increase during the period of releasing their redesign, but still I wouldn’t look to much into these charts!

By: Estetik klinikleri

Estetik klinikleri — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:41:24 +0000

I think redesign does not effect the traffic very much. Because new user also dont the what the old design.

By: Jason Grant

Jason Grant — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:40:42 +0000

Interesting light insight into the fact that UI redesigns can positively effect user take-up and site growth, which is something we have known for decades now of course.

Would like to see a more in depth comparison of various data from these sites and try to isolate which changes impact on users most positively.

There was also a fair point about FaceBook introducing Fan Pages as actual profiles, which is kind of ‘cheating’.