Have you guys seen it?

After logging into my account I was able to check it out by going to:

www.new.facebook.com 

Looks good and they went to two columns from three.

 ...will include an expanded Wall section that includes updates from a user's Mini-Feed.

....One of the ideas behind the redesign is to make the site more compatible with micro-blogging--adding snippets of text, images, or video clips. The redesign also includes new tabs designed to make navigation easier.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9995441-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

All the activity being crammed into the personal profiles is way too BIG, and cluttered and has lost facebook's cleanliness.... also needs more margin on the left.

Its not viewing properly on my machine I think... I had to reduce my display font a couple of sizes to view the whole thing in my window.

That being done, yeah the layout doesnt look too bad... but now the type is impossibly small to read.

Facebook Day....

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Some of the news is breaking early. For example, we will almost certainly see the Facebook payments platform launch in some form, for example - Facebook desperately wants to find a way to help application developers make money beyond advertising, and the iPhone App Store has shown that people are willing to pay for quality applications.

 ....even more certain is the launch of Facebook Connect, which will allow third party services to authenticate Facebook users and merge profile data into their offerings. Digg will be one of their launch partners, and will show off the new product on stage, say our sources. However, neither CEO Jay Adelson or Founder Kevin Rose will attend the event. We’ve also heard from sources that Facebook will announce a tiering system for applications, confirming what Boomtown wrote earlier today. Five to ten top tier apps, which have proven themselves trustworthy and which create as good or better a user

 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/23/its-facebook-day-say-hello-to-the-three-tier-app-system/