Facebook on Thursday displayed its site redesign and demonstrated its upcoming Facebook Connect at the second annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged more than 400,000 developers to connect with the social-networking site and distribute their applications. He said the site will decentralize, with less being said about Facebook and more about social networking across the Net.

Third-party applications can now be integrated into Facebook to manufacture them more user-friendly, the company

said. Users can choose to interact with an application, grant access to the user’s knowledge, and decide the placement for profiles.

Zuckerberg noted problems with applications that disrupt the site experience by bombarding users with requests. To discourage that, applications that create “meaningful, reliable and well-designed user experiences” will be branded with a Great Apps label. The label means more visibility on Facebook, earlier access to new features, and more feedback. Though […]

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