Facebook launches new homepage, rules in mobile, changes cooperation with Microsoft and plans more email stuff

Facebook is dominating the news today. First the world’s number one social network came with a new design of its homepage which, in fact, is more a navigational redesign to make stuff a bit easier and more user-friendly.

Then the media all jumped on the findings from the GSM Association and comScore (published yesterday) that the social network is the most visited mobile site in the UK (before Google Sites) and now I read that Facebook is going to take care of its own display ad business.

As probably everyone visiting this blog knows, Microsoft was Facebook’s display advertising partner for ages.

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Would having 100,000 friends on Facebook make sense?

Jonas Klit Nielsen from Mindjumpers.com In an interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, that TechCrunch posted earlier today, two interesting facts came up.

More than 50% of Facebook users use the social network daily,  that’s just about 175 million people, an enormous large number.

From that I can’t help thinking that Zuckerbergs’ original vision for Facebook is going to be the future for Facebook, it’s becoming a platform for its users daily life.

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