What's new in facebook this september

After the f8 conference, facebook has been rolling out several new features, making changes to user privacy options, adding more features and altering user interface heavily.

Below is a list of recent features were added to facebook this week .

• Static nav. bar at top for easy navigation through the site.
  
  
• Timeline: Facebook introduced a timeline on user's homepage, probably inspired by twitter. The timeline is a visual representation of your past activities which are laid on your home screen just like a scrapbook.
  
  
• Like button: Facebook has tried to remodel it's like button and add more interactivity. Now instead of just liking a webpage, you can mark it as read, watched etc. So facebook is basically going to allow people to create their own social buttons.
  
  
• Ticker: All less important buzz would not show up on timeline but go directly to ticker, which is a realtime list of your friends activities. It would generally include notifications like who is watching what, playing what etc.
  
  
• Movies, music and much more: Facebook has entered into more partnerships to enrich user experience by adding movies, songs and news powered by hulu, spotify and yahoo news respectively.
  

Facebook's new home page ( Click on image to enlarge )

During test phase, timeline feature is not available to all users but you can easily bypass this restriction and activate timeline for your account by signing up for facebook develop at http://developer.facebook.com.