Barton took it upon himself to redesign the Facebook experience with a completely revamped interface and navigation system inspired by Skimmer. The new design he made looks much more fluid than the current Facebook site and mimics some of the side-scrolling functionality present in the current iPhone Facebook application.
One of my favorite parts of the redesign is the events/calendar page (see below) which I think would be a great addition to the current Facebook site. I wonder if anybody at Facebook is seeing Barton’s work.
Check out a demo video of the new Facebook facelift below.
If this promo video from Palm isn’t exaggerating anything, it really does look like the Palm Pre is set to become the best smartphone on the market when it gets released. It does feel like the Pre is doing something rather revolutionary with smartphone functionality because it makes multi-tasking such a fluid and integral part of the device.
Personally, I’ve always imagined a smartphone device to be somewhat like a tiny portable computer in your pocket (without actually carrying a laptop). The iPhone and BlackBerry get close, but there are limitations to each of those OS’s and the Palm Pre has so far one-upped each of those devices in every single way. For the first time ever, I think the Palm Pre may finally be bringing us into the future of mobility. The only thing left to “fix” and get right is our shoddy US networks. Get our networks to actually have bearable data speeds and decent prices and the Palm Pre is going to be REALLY awesome.
Twistory is right. I didn’t know that I wanted to view my Twitter history in my calendar. And now that I can, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to not having it in my calendar.
There’s something very neat about viewing all of your tweets in one place by date. I can immediately see what days I used Twitter more than others and bring up individual tweets with timestamps if I wanted. Twistory allows you to export your Twitter history to several popular applications (on the web and on the desktop) via an iCal feed. I chose to import it into my Google Calendar because I can easily turn it off and on if I wanted and it’s available to me anywhere I can get internet.
I don’t see a huge use for this other than a different way to display tweets. But if that’s all I find useful about this, I don’t really care.
You can view my public Google Twistory Calendar here.
Note: Twistory says it can display all your tweets all the way back to your first one, but at the moment, I’m only being showed the month of February. Glitch?
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