Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 [LIVE]
F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making major announcements to an audience of developers and press.
Here are my live notes:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote
- It took only 15 months for 100 million users to use Facebook Connect.
- Asking for user permission via Facebook Connect will now be a one-step permission process, rather than requiring multiple permissions.
- The developer policy of not storing user data for more than 24 hours is now gone. This will give developers more time to use user data via Facebook Connect.
- Credits are still in beta — there were no major announcements.
- There isn’t an easy way to connect different social graphs — for example, your Facebook social graph and your Yelp social graph. There’s an issue in linking your favorite restaurants to your friends.
- Zuckerberg: “We’re going to connect all of these graphs together to create the Open Graph.”
via mashable.com
We will be covering this in the class very interesting.