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Last week Facebook announced that they’re going to launch a new profile design in July.

Their website reads:

This July, Facebook will be launching a redesigned profile aimed at making things simpler, cleaner, and more relevant, while still giving you control over your own profile. We want profiles to be a destination to learn about and interact with your friends.

Facebook has been incorporating some of the valuable feedback from its users and developers, into their design.

Launching in July gives us more time to make sure we release the best possible profile design to our users and developers. And this gives you even more time to add more integration points and features to your applications in the beta sandbox

said Facebook’s Pete Bratach.

Facebook will be having a look at whatever their users will be creating for the new profile design and would appreciate if they would submit screen shots showing new tabs, profile boxes, and Publisher add-on. Some of the best screen shots may be featured with the permission of users.

This week they’re launching new metrics which will help users in monitoring success of their applications. They’ve already started  recording  a 7 day and a 30 day metrics. These metrics are crucial for many applications as they provide user interaction on daily basis.

These two metrics are very important for many applications, as not every good application has its users interacting with them on a daily basis. Rather, they can be just as engaging when a user interacts with them regularly every few days or even a few times a month.

said Pete.

The new metric which is tracked on weekly and monthly basis includes:

• Number of canvas page views (also the number of unique viewers)

• Number of API calls (with the number of unique users on whose behalf your application made the calls)

• Number of active users for the past week and the past month

• Average HTTP request and FBML render times for canvas pages

The metrics will be visible in the Facebook Developer application but it may also appear at some other place soon. The design for the API calls and FQL tables (which will allow users to access these metrics) is yet to be finalised.

We’re still finalizing the design for the API calls and FQL tables that will let you get these metrics. We’ll document the API and FQL changes later this week. Look for the announcement on the Platform Status Feed.

added Pete. He further says that announcement will be made as more metrics are added to the set.