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Monday, July 21, 2008

AP: Facebook gets a facelift to help users share

20080721 AP Facebook gets a facelift to help users share

Facebook gets a facelift to help users share

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer, Jul 21, 7:33 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) -- The popular online hangout Facebook is sporting a new look to reflect changes in how its members communicate with each other and how they share photos and updates about their lives.

Central to the redesign, to be unveiled Monday, is an expanded Wall, the section of a member's personal profile page where friends can leave comments and photos. People will now be able to add items more easily, and the Wall will incorporate reports on a user's activities previously found on a user's "Mini-Feed."

The development comes as Facebook and rival MySpace from News Corp. vie to become the central hub of online communications. Both sites are reorganizing their layouts this summer to reduce clutter and make information easier to find.


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Saturday, June 21, 2008

20080613 Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network


Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com Friday, June 13, 2008

It was sort of inevitable given Facebook's monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore and shown above. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each month.

Most of Facebook's user growth, however, has been in international markets - MySpace is still dominates Facebook in the U.S. market, with 72 million monthly uniques. Facebook has 36 million monthly uniques, up from 23 million a year ago.

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