Facebook to reveal 'new look' for News Feed next week

Unlike with some invitations that leave people guessing what will be announced, Facebook has come out and said it will show off a “new look for News Feed” at the event on Thursday.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently explained News Feed as one of the three pillars of the social network, along with Timeline and Graph Search. As we wrote about recently, News Feed hasn’t had the sort of transformation that the other two pillars have seen in the past 18 months and is due for an overhaul.

We’ve suggested Facebook could apply its ranking algorithms to different categories that users can select at will, whether its news articles that friends and pages are sharing, videos they’ve posted, food they ate, movies they’re talking about or products they’re interested in. Ideally,