The new feed-focused Facebook redesign will be fully launched to users next week, according to the company — after a final mystery feature is fully ... , without seeing any permanent decline in overall traffic. But that time will tell given the changes to permissions. Since the redesign is about to roll out to all users, we're about to discover just how popular it is, and how it affects applications.

Many developers have been (understandably) speculating that the Facebook redesign will go live to all users this Wednesday, 27 August 2008, because of a statement in the Facebook Developer Wiki page on User Logins in the new design that reads, We are deprecating infinite session keys after the new profile launches to all users August 27, [...]

The redesign of Facebook has prompted an unprecedented level of criticism and headlines around the Internet. The controversy is so great that it has prompted CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to address the issues in only his sixth ever blog post. What is Facebook? A free social network that allows us all to keep in touch [...]

... his flock, counseling patience, and pleading for understanding but reminding them that Facebook is in fact a business and not their personal sandbox. The money grafs: We ... their home page and how they shared information. Now it's one of the most important parts of Facebook. We think the new design can have the same effect. ...It's tempting to say that we should just support both designs, but this ...

... out the rest of the people in that group who, like most humans, hate change...whether they're willing to admit it or not. Go ahead and threaten to leave Facebook...you won't go through with it because your friends won't be following you.  You may be convinced to go through that trouble, but it's doubtful that more than a small percentage of your friends will.  I joined Facebook because ...