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Facebook has announced that it would launch the new profile design to Facebook users by July 14th. The new design would be a beta launch and users would be able to view the entire site including the home page news feeds, application invites and notifications.

Facebook has requested its developer community to involve in the new profile design and to submit screen shots of the new profile boxes, tabs and publisher add-ons developed.

Some of the changes the new profile design would include are below:

• Wall: This is a new tab exclusively for wall posts and is simple to use.
• Feed: The Wall tab has been changed to include Mini-Feed stories as well as wall posts.
• Info: This tab was previously called ‘About” tab which can be used for static content like your personal information or the “About Me” section.

Facebook withdrew its support for Google Friend Connect due to privacy concerns on developer access to Facebook member information.

Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever informed that Google has been redistributing Facebook user information to developers without the knowledge of its users. This is a disrespect to the privacy standards for users and is a violation of Facebook terms and service.

Google had announced recently that it has places to make its various applications available to third-party websites using Google Friend connect. This feature would help webmasters add Google’s social features to their website easily.

Responding to Facebook intention to withdraw, Google informed that they were disappointed that Facebook has withdrawn from Google Friend Connect. However, Google denied any privacy violation issues.

It should also be noted that Facebook and MySpace have come up with similar services. The Facebook Connect by Facebook and Data Availability by MySpace

The financial status of Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo Inc went down further in the end of 2007 and as a result, the company has planed to lay off 1,000 of its employees.

However, Yahoo has not informed which areas of expertise would be reduced. It should be noted that Yahoo chucked out 650 employees way back in 2000 during the dot-com break down.
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