As Many As 500 Million People Have Been On Facebook In A Single Day. New Vision for Sharing. Facebook Announces Major Changes at f8. Facebook kicked off its F8 developer conference with a large number of product announcements by the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives and developers today. Here is a rundown of all the major announcements. New From Facebook: Timeline, Music Apps, Lightweight Status Updates As Zuckerberg noted at the beginning of his keynote, the early years of social networking were about getting people signed up and connecting them.
According to him, the next era of social network is about social apps and other products that these connections make possible. To do so, Facebook introduced new ways to share more lightweight updates and also announced a completely redesigned profile page today. Instead of just “linking” content, Facebook is shifting more towards sharing everything you do. Timeline: Timeline is, according to Zuckerberg, “the story of your life.” Facebook introduces Timeline: ‘a new way to express who you are’
Facebook has just announced a new version of its profile called the Timeline at the f8 developer conference. The new layout is meant to be a central location for your stories, apps, and for you to express who you are, utilizing a chronological timeline to highlight the most important content you share on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg explained it as a way to "share the story of your life on a single page. " The Timeline will allow you to post about "stories," rather than relying completely on chronology for all shared content and Facebook activity.
Stories can be starred or hidden, and there are inline privacy controls to control exactly who sees what. Facebook introduces Timeline Previous Next View full Gallery. The data visualization geek behind Facebook’s Timeline. We learned a lot about two people’s lives during Facebook’s f8 keynote on Thursday: Mark Zuckerberg and Nicholas Felton. Zuck showed off photos of his dog and his childhood to demonstrate the company’s new Timeline feature, which made sense.
But why was Facebook VP of Product Management Chris Cox talking so much about Felton’s life, elaborating some 10 minutes about how Felton really loved to collect data that would bore most other people? And who the heck is Nicholas Felton? In short, he’s the god of data visualization. The kind of music Nicholas Felton listened to in 2008 to, as visualized by Nicholas Felton. The reason for that is that Felton has been turning this kind of data into annual reports about his own life and the life of people close to him ever since 2005. However, the reports also provide interesting clues on how to utilize and get value out of data that others would simply discard, which is exactly what Facebook’s new Timeline feature is about. Deep Spotify Integration. Yahoo News Teams Up With Facebook. Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook.
Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we’re told this is one of the most in-depth implementations to date. That’s because Yahoo is working with Facebook’s open graph to integrate your friends’ activity into your Yahoo News experience. The new Yahoo News friends’ activity feature lets people discover and connect around the news and information they are enjoying on Yahoo through updates on Facebook. Once Facebook users opt-in to sharing conte, you’ll be able to see your Facebook friends’ on Yahoo News and the recent articles they’ve read. People’s activity will also be featured back on their Facebook profile as it happens. On Yahoo News, you’ll see a dashboard at the top of the page, called the ‘Facebar’ with your friends profile pictures. Netflix ready to roll out Facebook app.