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Yesterday we wrote about the Facebook platform roadmap unveiled to application developers that included a lot of detail about the direction the company would be taking with its hugely successful application platform. This morning Facebook published a follow-up post aimed more at the average user that describes the changes we’ll start to see on the front end. One of the more interesting bits is the addition of Dashboards to better manage and stay on top of your Applications and Games. The applications menu itself will also move up to your left-hand sidebar from its current position, relegated to the bottom left-hand corner of the page in the navigation toolbar since last September’s major redesign.

Verizon’s answer to the iPhone, the Motorola Droid hits Verizon stores next Friday , for $199 after a $100 mail-in-rebate. If you want to go ahead and pre-order your phone (and get that $100 rebate instantly), head over to your nearest Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile location starting today.

After the dust from the Snow Leopard and Windows 7 launch has settled, we have another important OS launch: the new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu 9.10 , is available for download. Named Karmic Koala, the new Ubuntu – as always – promises to be faster and easier to use, bringing version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, latest version of GNOME, and Firefox 3.5. The biggest news, however, is Ubuntu One, a web sync service that gives you 2 GB of online disk space and lets you synchronize notes and contacts, as well as share files between several computers.

Verizon’s very first phone running the Google Android mobile operating system launches next Friday, November 6 . We’ve seen the marketing campaign, the commercial , and the iDon’t care spoof of the commercial — and today Verizon offers a demo video of the highly-anticipated phone.