Facebook Flirts with Marketers with New Fan Pages

Caroline McCarthy at The Social reports on Facebook's marketer-savvy fan pages. The pages, which are a nice bridge between direct marketing and profile pages will be revamped today as Mark Zuckerberg and other executives unveil the "new evolution" of fan pages. McCarthy reports, according to a blog post at Advertising Age, the redesigned "fan pages" will look a lot more like regular Facebook profiles, which got their own revamp last year. This means their content will be distributed on tabs, with external applications aggregated primarily on their own tab. Also, according to the AdAge post, activity from fan pages will show up more in members' news feeds, giving those brands more visibility. Beyond that, we (CNET) don't have too much more information about what the announcement will entail. So as we wait for this afternoon's announcement, what do you think will be the success of these fan pages? We'd like to hear your thoughts on Twitter or in our comments section.