F8

  During Facebook's F8 developer conference keynote, Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Live API. This API will allow developers to build apps that allow you to stream live from any camera, not just the one in your mobile phone. After opening Facebook Live to iOS and Android users earlier this month, Zuckerberg says the response has been "pretty amazing". He went on to...

Every year Facebook holds a developer conference known as F8. Deveopment on the Facebook platform in 2015 focuses on changes to Messenger, Comments, Video, IoT, virtual reality analytics and so much more. Yep you’re job as a developer would be choosing where to focus with a platform that’s quickly approaching having a deficit in attention span. Overnight Facebook have announced they want their very successful,...

Developers can now register for F8, Facebook’s global developer conference. F8 is on March 25th and March 26th at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Centre. It’s a big year for the company, in fact, the biggest yet, with F8 featuring every Facebook developer product and company, including Instagram, Parse, Messenger, WhatsApp, and an opening talk on day two from Oculus' Chief Scientist Michael Abrash....

At the end of the F8 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook developers would get access to the Timeline beta today. Well true to his word, developers can indeed opt-in to the beta. One important note, during the beta phase, only other developers will see your new Timeline, normal users will see your traditional profile page. If you have ever build...

If you’re a developer and keen to take advantage of the newly updated Open Graph, then your should check out the Facebook Developer’s site. While the keynote is still going, the dev site has already been updated. Open graph will also support ratings. This means that application interactions posted to user’s walls, will provide analytics back to developers about what is...

Music service Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek took the stage to discuss the way Spotify are taking advantage of Facebook to allow users to discover new music. “Today is a big day for music” and “a big day for the music industry.” Ek dropped a couple of bombshells without much reaction. He announced Facebook now has 800Million users, up from the...

Application developers can now use verbs in their applications. Previously the Facebook Open Graph only allowed for a limited set of ‘Likes’, but now you can ‘do’ something with ‘something’. Facebook believe this change will lead to a completely new class of social apps that weren’t possible before. Clicking ‘Like’ on a Book or Movie will become ‘Jason watched Transformers 3: Darkside of...

Facebook just revealed a brand new feature, read massive change, to how your profile is displayed. In a single long scrolling list, you can scroll back through your life. Facebook Timeline is ‘The story of your life’. The mobile users are also catered for with the same timeline demo’d on an iPhone. Zuckerberg showed how users could insert...