26/03/2015
Tech Talk:
Facebook's 2015 F8 developer conference keynote
Zuckerberg is touching on ThreatExchange, Facebook's new data-sharing social network for businesses to share information about hacks, similar to the US government's new cybersecurity initiative announced earlier this year.
"When people feel good about their privacy and security, that's when they're open to trying new experiences," Zuck says. Talking about Facebook Login now, the company's app certification service, now used by 80 percent of the world's top grossing apps.
Facebook is making a new commitment to fix all major bug fixes with 48 hours, reiterating its "important theme of stability" that it established at last year's conference, says Zuckerberg.
Apps are now asking for 50 percent fewer permissions and are seeing 10 percent increase in the number of people logging in, Zuck says, after Facebook urged developers to better respect user privacy.
"We've already heard of thousands of developers that want to join," Zuck says. Tech giants like Netflix, Microsoft and Yahoo are already on board today.
"Facebook used to be this single blue app that did a lot of different things. Now Facebook is a family of different apps," Zuck says.
Zuck philosophizing about the future, says video is the new forefront and after that, augmented and virtual reality.
"We're starting to see traditional video blend with even more immersive content." We're talking about new types of video now, like spherical, 360-degree views of real environments. Think an eagle-eye view of Google Street Maps.
Zuck talks about how the company has added to Messenger with photos, videos, location, and voice calling. Apparently Messenger represents 10% of internet connected phone calls. And payments. "We have a lot more planned in the months ahead," he adds.
After officially announcing its Messenger Platform, Zuckerberg demonstrated an interesting new feature: Users will be able to place an order with an online retailer, then change the order or shipping details later via Messenger.
Partners for Messenger Platform include Ditty, JibJab, Giphy, FlipLip Voice Changer, Memes, PicCollage Gif Cam and others
Facebook introduced new software development kits for its Parse mobile app development platform, enabling developers to incorporate data from Internet-connected devices. The news, which first leaked yesterday, came officially today at Facebook’s developer-oriented F8 conference in San Francisco.
Facebook videos will soon be embeddable. This means it’ll be a lot easier for users to share videos elsewhere. Of course, this also offers content creators more incentive for uploading videos, since they have the potential to be shared a little more.
Facebook’s Parse cloud back-end for developing and deploying mobile apps is getting a debugging tool called Parse Explorer. The service lets developers dive in to the details of apps running on the Parse platform by making queries of logs with a new query language.
Facebook announced the launch of a new app analytics tool, designed to let mobile developers track the user behaviour in apps, as well as ads that promote the apps. The tool is available now, and it’s free, Facebook’s Deborah Liu said.
Did you know that in the past year, Facebook has released a half dozen apps? Paper, Hyperlapse, Slingshot, Groups, Rooms and others. The company has reoriented its business to respond to usage patterns around the word.
Ever hear of Snapchat? That app is valued at billions of dollars and it's made specifically for mobile devices. Instagram? Facebook paid $1 billion for it three years ago.
