“It’s amazing how the little things matter”

13 mins 57 secs into Scoble’s video interview on the new Facebook design with Facebook’s Mark Slee he asks my favourite kinda question; essentially ‘what are the small things that you guys have done, that might be unexpected, that others don’t bother to do?’ Mark looks kinda like he’s not been asked that before (15:05). Hey, ‘it’s clean and easy to use’ is the answer. But problem is that’s a generic answer, Scoble asked for something specific. So he asks again, in a different way, for what the guy is proudest of? Now a better answer. One, a better production interface which brings elements like videos and photos together for the first time in a simpler experience, and which makes it easier to share. On the consumption side the newsfeeds interface now come in different views, so they’ve taken the newsfeed interface which revolutionised the site a couple of years ago, and now allows users to interact with the feed and filter down exactly what they’re interested in. Thanks Mark. And nice to hear you use a PC.

Facebook update from F8

23 July: Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote webcast “We’ve got one guy in Greenland”. “We’re opening up the translation tool.” Mr Z gets a big ‘whoo’ from the audience for the annoucement that you no longer will have to sign up for apps as a user, you can just use them. Right on.

23 July: TechCrunch liveblogging the conference

23 July: Notes from jowyang’s twitter stream, compressed on TinyPaste so you get a feel for it, sitting in front of the front row on ground, a few feet from Zuckerberg. His blog post highlights the Facebook Connect news:

“Facebook Connect will allow corporate websites to authenticate, interact, and share with their Facebook network –all without leaving the corporate website. Boring, static corporate websites can now become social.” Launch FC partners are CNET, CBS and Disney.