Last month, social media expert Mari Smith found out that Facebook was testing a redesign to a proposed one-column timeline layout. According to sister site Inside Facebook, it appears that another design is being tested, as well — one that places open graph activity on the left and posts on the right.



Tipster Matt Navarra sent in this screenshot to Inside Facebook, showing activity and friends sampling on the left, with posts on the right:

It’s important to note that this is simply a test and does not mean that this will be implemented anytime soon on a permanent basis.

Open graph activity — such as songs listened to or achievements in games played — is off to the left, and posts made by the user and his or her friends are on the right — a switch from the previous design shown by Smith and ABC News.

Inside Facebook’s Brittany Darwell noted that when a user wants to highlight a post on their page, it gets a blue banner instead of being made bigger and spread across the layout.

This single-column timeline addresses one of the main complaints about the current format, which moves posts around as it loads.

Readers: What do you think about this latest tested design?

It was reported on Tuesday that Google is planning to consolidate its United Kingdom offices in a brand new development near London’s King’s Cross Station.

The new development is worth a reported £1 billion.

The Internet search giant will move to the one-million-square-foot, 11-storey building on a 2.4-acre plot at the soon-to-be bustling Kings Cross Central site, which is behind the recently redeveloped Kings Cross Station and adjacent to St Pancras International rail station.

The area behind and between the two North London rail stations has been undergoing a massive regeneration since the opening of the London-to-Paris Eurostar terminal at St Pancras in 2007.

Other organisations recently moving to the area include IDG, The Guardian, BNP Paribas and fashionable art college Central St Martin’s.

Matt Brittin, Vice-President for Northern and Central Europe, Google, commented that the move is “a big investment by Google. We’re committing further to the U.K. – where computing and the web were invented. It’s good news for Google, for London and for the U.K.”

Google currently has offices split across London – two are on Buckingham Palace Road in Victoria, and another is between Holborn and Tottenham Court Road. Google’s lease for the Victoria offices ends in 2016, when Google hopes the AHMM-designed new Google headquarters will be ready at King’s Cross.

Google also has Campus, a large space in London’s Shoreditch that offers offices for technology and media start-ups as part of London’s Tech City project.

 Simon Allford, Director, AHMM, said, “Working with Google is a special opportunity to create an innovative new headquarters of scale and significance that both builds on King’s Cross’ rich tradition of heroic construction and contributes to the fulfilment of the development’s visionary masterplan.”