Shelly Palmer Radio Report – March 11, 2013

Late last week, Facebook announced yet another change to the way its News Feed looks. Facebook seems to always be tinkering with something to the point where updates are so frequent and regular you can almost set your watch by them. The News Feed’s look has already begun to roll out and should be widely available by the end of the month. Facebook said the new look was inspired by its mobile app, and it’s easy to immediately see the differences. Photos are bigger than ever and links have less text to clutter up the re-design’s prettier visuals. You also have more of a choice in what your News Feed shows, with options for feeds that only display photos, or music stories, or games activity, or posts by pages or friends. Facebook is becoming a platform dominated by the visual, and this re-design reaffirms that shift. Who wants to read when you can look at gorgeous pictures and interactive photo albums?

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).