• Facebook Rolls Out Image Viewer Redesign

    Friday, October 8th, 2010

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    We’ve got tipster consensus on the fact that Facebook has started to roll out a more elegant Lightbox-like dark background version of its Image Viewer or what it is now calling Facebook PhotoTheater.

    Perhaps this broader rollout is the first sign of the general upcoming Facebook redesign we reported on before the press event earlier this week?

    Apparently the more streamlined feature does hide most Facebook Image Viewer ads except for a single one in the bottom right corner, which functions as a proper ad “Why didn’t you like it?” survey et al.

    In any case, screen caps of what viewing photos on Facebook will soon look like, above and below.


    Company: Facebook
    Website: facebook.com
    Launch Date: February 1, 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:FB

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for...

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