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Facebook redesign kills widgets dead

Post Date: Oct 01, 2008 11:48 a.m.
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Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook  (via ValleyWag ) has a post up about how the new Facebook redesign is killing widget traffic by segregating them into their own boxes and off the main page: Thanks to the redesign all the badges which were “cluttering” the profile have been moved to a “Boxes” tab which most people don’t visit apparently. When the new profile was first rolled out, the traffic to my application actually jumped a little but oddly enough on September 11th, things took a turn for the worse. I’m not sure what happened but my guess is that a lot of the profiles started to get shifted over. Nick provides the traffic chart for his application: Nick make an incredibly astute point about the nature of the widgets: While my application was only build as a joke some applications were attracting hundreds of thousands of daily users. My application was completely a widget though and provided practically no interactive substance. Other applica...

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