The day the web changed forever - FLIP MODE. The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web. Mark Zuckerberg @ SXSW 2008 by Deney Terreio via Flickr Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web.
But while such a plan indicates a tussle with fellow upstart Twitter, the real battle is Facebook vs. Google. I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. The opening keynote at Facebook’s f8 conference today in San Francisco was short and sweet.
But don’t let that fool you. It contained some huge announcements pertaining to how the service will interact with the broader web going forward. The three big ones: social plugins, Open Graph, and Open Graph API, make Facebook’s intentions very clear: they want to be the fabric of the web. Erick already outlined Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s perspective on this from his keynote, but perhaps more interesting was some of what Platform Lead Bret Taylor had to say. The most interesting thing Taylor said was that Facebook’s stance is that social connections are going to be just as important going forward as hyperlinks have been for the web.
Facebook becomes the Internet's Social Glue.