F8: Mark Zuckerberg Stresses Platform Stability, Users’ Control Of Data, Gap...
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the social network’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday with a keynote address during which he focused on steps being taken...
View ArticleFacebook is all-in with mobile, CEO Zuckerberg says
Above: Mark Zuckerberg at F8Image Credit: Dean TakahashiWhat's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now...
View ArticleGoodbye, Hoodie: Facebook Grows Up
Standing in front of thousands of Facebook developers at the company’s third F8 conference, a reflective Mark Zuckerberg, sans hoodie, spoke from the heart. He noted the social media giant’s 10th...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Gives Control Back To Users With Anonymous Login, Revamped...
Most mobile applications include social logins, and Facebook Login is the most-used one by a healthy margin. At its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday, the social network...
View ArticleFacebook’s AppLinks: taking mobile browsers out of the equation
Another one of the innovations launched Wednesday at f8 takes frustration out of mobile links and app-to-app browsing. Through Facebook AppLinks, a user can go from a link in one Facebook...
View ArticleBeyond Breaking Things: All the News From Facebook’s F8
Facebook unveiled a slew of new products and initiatives at the company's F8 developer conference keynote on Wednesday, nearly all of them developer-related Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the event with a...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Promises Platform Stability, And Here’s How It Plans To Deliver It
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg began his keynote address at the F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday by promising to make the Facebook platform more stable for...
View ArticleBye-Bye Browsers: Why Facebook’s New App Links Are a Big Deal
Facebook announced a slew of new programs and initiatives for developers at its F8 Conference, but the most exciting might just be App Links. App Links are Facebook's attempt to make it easy for...
View ArticleFacebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App
At its F8 developer conference Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its Paper mobile app for iOS. In a few weeks, the company will upload the code for...
View ArticleWhat Facebook’s New Login Means for Developers
"We don't ever want anyone to be surprised with how they are sharing on Facebook," company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during his keynote at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference on Wednesday. Zuckerberg...
View ArticleCoverage roundup: Facebook f8 2014
Facebook was aflurry with announcements Wednesday, with the company holding its first f8 since 2011. Facebook announced its mobile ad network and gave more ways for users to have control over what...
View ArticleMobile Advertising Has a New FAN
On Wednesday, Facebook didn’t disappoint. With the world’s attention turned toward San Francisco for its F8 conference, Facebook unveiled its long-rumored mobile ad network called Facebook Audience...
View ArticleFacebook Evolves from Social Network to Social Ecosystem
Every so often, Facebook hosts its f8, a conference in San Francisco aimed at developers, media, and partners. This year, in front of an audience of 2,500+, Facebook introduced its vision for the next...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Audience Network Officially Introduced
Facebook’s long-rumored mobile ad network is now a reality, as the social network officially introduced its Facebook Audience Network Wednesday at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco....
View ArticleF8: Facebook App Links Offers A Way Around Mobile Browsers, Direct Path To...
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and in the case of deep links within applications, App Links, an open, cross-platform solution for app-to-app linking introduced by Facebook...
View ArticleF8: Facebook’s FbStart Initiative Will Give Selected Developers A $30K...
Developing successful applications is likely a whole lot easier with $30,000 in free tools and services to start off with, and that’s exactly what selected developers will get out of FbStart, a new...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Launches Four New Media APIs
Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday may have been dominated by mobile, but the social network didn’t forget the media, as it introduced four new application-programming...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Like Button Coming To Apps
Developers will soon be able to add like buttons to their applications, as Facebook announced at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday that it has begun testing a like button on...
View ArticleF8: Parse Slashes Pricing
Lower prices are never a bad thing, and Parse announced just that during Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs...
View ArticleSlideshow: Facebook f8 2014
Facebook has completed its 2014 f8 conference, and it will be back next year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed. Aside from the keynotes from major Facebook executives and managers, f8 offered developers a...
View ArticleF8: No Internet Connection? Parse Local Datastore Has Your Apps Covered
Applications that work offline? Why not? Parse announced the launch of Parse Local Datastore — a new feature in its software-development kit that allows developers to add a few lines of code to their...
View ArticleF8: Facebook Testing Mobile Install Notifications
Developers looking for a way to more closely tie their applications together with their websites will soon have a solution, compliments of Facebook, which announced at its F8 global developer...
View ArticleF8: Ecwid Adds Autofill With Facebook; JackThreads Tests New Feature
Facebook made some announcements about its Autofill with Facebook mobile payments feature at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday, making the feature available to Facebook...
View ArticleSocial Media Newsfeed: Snapchat Messaging | New Foursquare App
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Snapchat Adds Chat Feature (USA Today) The Los Angeles startup said Thursday that Snapchat users will be able to chat by swiping...
View ArticleCan Facebook Really Get the Whole World Online?
In early 2013, Facebook sent a team of Android engineers to Nigeria to test the Facebook app on local wireless networks The group of engineers landed, bought Android phones and SIM cards, and tried to...
View ArticleMind blown! Facebook’s f8 makes a mobile move into marketing automation
We sent two people to f8 and here’s our analysis. App developer or business owner, the way to social ROI requires connection to a sale somewhere down the line. And today, Facebook’s slew of...
View ArticleF8: 1,700+ Developers Attended From 30+ Countries
Facebook recently released some interesting stats about the attendance and social activity surrounding its f8 conference last week in San Francisco. At this conference, Facebook announced new features...
View ArticleF8: 1700+ developers attended from 30+ countries
Facebook recently released some interesting stats about the attendance and social activity surrounding its f8 conference last week in San Francisco. At this conference, Facebook announced new features...
View ArticleFacebook’s Audience Network: it’s all about the targeting
Facebook finally made the big announcement that marketers and app developers have been anxiously awaiting: it’s launching its own mobile ad network, called Audience Network. Why is this a big deal?...
View ArticleDoes Facebook Anonymous Login Encourage Brand Trust?
Image via FacebookAs a digital strategist at Janrain, a social sign-in company, I wanted to focus on the two major announcements related to marketing with social login and social data:1. Anonymous...
View ArticleFbStart Registration Now Open To All Developers
When Facebook announced its FbStart program to provide developers of mobile applications with up to $30,000 worth of free tools and services at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco last...
View Article7 takeaways after f8 if you market on Facebook
It has been 3 years since Facebook last organized the f8, the large conference dedicated to developers. If the 2014 edition had not revealed any developments as significant as the implementation of...
View ArticleApp Links: Facebook’s Proposal For Routing Traffic Between Apps Explained
Two weeks ago, Facebook announced App Links, a proposed standard for routing traffic between mobile applications. If the app developer community adopts the App Links standard, there will finally be a...
View ArticleHow can Facebook’s App Links change the mobile world?
One of the many innovations Facebook announced at f8 was App Links — a deep linking system that allowed publishers such as Endomondo, Goodreads and Spotify to take users from a Facebook News Feed post...
View ArticleFacebook’s Mike Hudack On The State Of The Media: ‘Someone Should Fix This Shit’
Facebook has launched several initiatives aimed at boosting media companies’ presence on the social network thus far in 2014 -- Public Content Solutions, aimed at providing its partners with dedicated...
View ArticleFacebook News Feed Algorithm To De-Emphasize Stories From Apps Unless They...
Prepare to see fewer stories from applications in News Feed, as Facebook announced a change to its News Feed algorithm that will emphasize what it calls explicitly shared stories from apps, or stories...
View ArticleNBC’s ‘Today,’ Discovery’s ‘Street Outlaws’ Integrated With Facebook Via...
Two more television shows are now more tightly integrated with Facebook, as social relationship platform provider Spredfast used two of the media application-programming interfaces the social network...
View ArticleThree New FbStart Partners: Braintree, Appmethod, Get Satisfaction
Facebook announced the addition of three new partners for its FbStart program for mobile application startups: Braintree, Appmethod, and Get Satisfaction. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The...
View ArticleFacebook App Links: 1B Created Thus Far, Now Available For Mobile App Ads
Facebook introduced App Links, an open, cross-platform solution for application-to-app linking, at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, and the social network announced in a...
View ArticleSCREENSHOTS: Facebook Audience Network on Power Editor
Facebook officially introduced its Facebook Audience Network mobile ad network at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, saying at the time that it was a beta release, and...
View Article2Q EARNINGS: Mark Zuckerberg Talks Privacy
One topic that doesn’t come up too often during Facebook’s earnings calls is privacy, since it has little direct bearing on financial results, but Jefferies Analyst Brian Pitz brought up the topic...
View ArticleParse Releases SDK for PHP
Facebook-owned cloud-application platform Parse announced the launch Tuesday of a software-development kit for programming language PHP, marking its first SDK for a server-side language and its first...
View ArticleFacebook Announces Platform Policy Changes, Updates to Graph API, SDKs for...
Facebook announced two changes to its platform policy for developers that will go into effect Nov. 5: Games that include mandatory or optional in-application charges must disclose those charges in...
View ArticleAnalytics Now Available for App Links
Facebook announced a flurry of news related to its App Links open, cross-platform solution for application-to-app linking, which it initially debuted at its F8 global developer conference in San...
View ArticleParse Open-Sources Code for F8 Apps
When Facebook held its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, its cloud-based application platform, Parse, launched iOS and Android apps to help attendees manage their F8...
View ArticleFacebook’s FbStart Tour Kicks Off in New York
Facebook announced the launch of its FbStart program for mobile application startups at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30, and a 10-city FbStart tour across the U.S. and...
View ArticleFacebook: Mobile Like Button for All Developers
Facebook announced at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco April 30 that it was testing the ability for developers to add its like button to their applications. The social network used...
View ArticleFbStart program kicks off international tour in New York
FbStart, the program aimed at helping mobile startups, has started its international tour today in New York. FbStart was announced at f8 in April, and more than 1,000 startups have joined the program...
View ArticleFacebook Releases Updated Graph API
Facebook announced the release of version 2.2 of its Graph API and updated software-development kits for iOS and Android to support the updated application-programming interface, also revealing that...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons Why Apps Are Rejected During Facebook’s Login Review
Facebook introduced login review at its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco in April, in an effort to cut back on the number of permissions requested by applications, and in an update on...
View Article