Facebook fans, here is a great news, Facebook is very likely to launch a major redesign For the profile at it’s developer event on September 22nd. It was told to Mashable the the redesign “will make Facebook profiles nexuses for consuming content.â€
-The redesigned profiles will be more “sticky,†says one source. One of the goals of the new profiles is to get users to stay on them for longer.
– We already knew Facebook is launching a media platform at f8. However, we’ve also learned that the platform — which will include music and video from partner sites — will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profiles. Essentially, when you’re listening to Lady Gaga on Spotify, your friends can see and access that on your Facebook profile. This confirms a recent New York Times report.
– The redesigned profiles are part of a larger push into social ecommerce. We don’t exactly know what that means, but we’ve heard whispers that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more prominence. We’ve also heard that a Facebook app store may emerge at f8.
– Facebook’s push into ecommerce may be related Project Spartan, an HTML5-based mobile platform rumored to be launching soon.
The event is expected to witness the launch of a music and media platform and very likely the release the iPad app.
The redesign might rolled out tomorrow so get ready and tell us when you get it.