YouTube, Google+, Pinterest and FaceBook Redesigns, Speedlink 10:2013

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Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week. This week was “redesign week”. Coincidental or not, major networks decided that this week was just as good as any to announce “major” updates on design, usability and more. So where should we start? Not really important, so let’s see what’s new this week.

FaceBook – Announced a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with a fresh new look. This new design will roll out slowly and if you want to be one of the early adopters, go to http://www.facebook.com/newsfeed and add yourself on the waiting list.

We’ve completely rebuilt each story to be much more vibrant and colorful and highlight the content that your friends are sharing. Photos, news articles, maps and events all look brighter and more beautiful…. Also, Facebook will now have the same look and feel on mobile, tablet and web.

Facebook News Feed

Google+ – Lots of changes too. Sara McKinley mentioned that a much bigger area for your profile cover photos and several page improvements are gradually rolling out (see below).

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Sara McKinley2 days ago

Some profile & page improvements, per your request

We spend lots of time listening to your feedback, and today we’re launching some profile and page updates that you’ve been asking for. These include:

– A new tab for your Local reviews. In addition to your photos, +1’s and YouTube videos, there’s now a place for all your Local reviews. Highlight your favorite restaurants, or hide the tab completely via settings — it’s completely up to you.

– An easier way to edit your info. The ‘About’ tab now consists of separate cards (like Story, Places, and Links) — each with its own prominent edit link. As always: you can share specific fields with specific circles, or keep them just for you.

– Bigger cover photos, with a better aspect ratio. Cover photos are much larger than before (up to 2120px by 1192px), and they display in 16×9 when fully expanded. This way more images can be used as cover photos, and there’s more room for your selection to shine.

Everything’s rolling out gradually, so check back soon if you don’t see it yet. Once it’s live (at plus.google.com/me), let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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YouTube – Of course YouTube could not be left behind and this week they announced the so called “YouTube One Channel”. According to YouTube this will allow users the ability to put up a big header on the top of their channels and to have a video trailer (sort of a welcome video) which starts playing for all visitors who aren’t yet subscribed to the channel. This one is actually cool. Have you created your “welcome” to my channel video yet? I’m working on it… Anyway, if you want to start with your new channel layout, just go to go to https://www.youtube.com/onechannel and upgrade.

Like I said, major redesigns and improvements. And Oh, in case you missed it, Pinterest (not this week), also changed a bit their design.

How about you? Did you make your changes yet on G+ and Youtube? Can you see FaceBook’s new news feed already? Do you even like the changes? Interestingly YouTube’s video presentation about “One Channel” has 4x more dislikes than likes. Wonder if that is a “general” feeling?

As usual, in no particular order:

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That’s it! Enjoy, have a great weekend!

DiTesco

DiTesco is a Business and Inbound Marketing Consultant, and founder of iBlogzone.com. iBlogzone's main objective is to help startups and small business owners achieve success in their online ventures. | More About Me and my Digital Marketing Services in SP Brazil.

9 thoughts on “YouTube, Google+, Pinterest and FaceBook Redesigns, Speedlink 10:2013”

  • Excellent information. Blogs have a lot of power and your suggestions are great tools for maximizing that power.

  • Yes DITESCO, Every social medias getting changed & i think we have lots of opportunities behind them.Still i used fb graph search for marketing.That’s a wonderful feature & g+ needs to improve more, first in there profile URL (Need to get changes from numbers to user name). 🙂

    • Well said about G+. Its taking quite a long time before users can have their own vanity name, I mean us regular users 🙂

      • Me too! I feel like they should change it for a long time ago.

  • I’m loving all of the redesigns that are coming around the web – I think with the new standards being set, the sort-of-outdated techniques that the big boys are using have got to go. I’m really hoping, however, that smaller designers and websites take heed from all of this – if the bigger guys need to change it up, then what is that telling you about you and your design/setup? If anything, you should be recognizing that staying the same will kill you and your brand.

    Loved the links, keep up the great work.

  • Today i got new look of my profile on google plus.But its looks like something very big and it looks really awesome.Iam already in the waiting of new facebook news feed.Hope get it ASAP.

    really like your article,written in simple words.Keep Writing…

  • Thank you for including my post this week. I am really honored to be part of your promotion circle. Let’s do so again and keep in touch.

  • Wondering if Google Plus is learning from Facebook Timeline by including a huger cover photos on the profile. And new facebook design looks cleaner to me

  • wow that was amazing and i am waiting for that eagerly i love social networking and micro blogging websites. this could be awesome

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