Among the news announcements at Facebook’s giant f8 developers conference on Thursday (we’ve collected the news in one place if you want to catch up) was the launch of social apps for media consumption. This included music apps like Spotify and video apps like Hulu, but also news-reading apps from a series of media...
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In Facebook’s f8 keynote today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced two new classes of applications for the Facebook platform. In addition to communication apps and games, Facebook will support media and lifestyle apps. The change is designed to feed into Facebook’s “Open Graph” of user information, which has been rearranged to suit two new purposes:...
In Facebook’s f8 keynote today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced two new classes of applications for the Facebook platform. In addition to communication apps and games, Facebook will support media and lifestyle apps. The change is designed to feed into Facebook’s “Open Graph” of user information, which has been rearranged to suit two new purposes:...
Netflix is coming to Facebook in a really social way. At Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, Mark Zuckerberg previewed how Facebook members will be able to see what movies or TV shows their friends have been watching on Netflix and click on the movie to watch it right there in Facebook. An overlay player...
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We’re on the ground here at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2011 in San Francisco. The queue to get in was impressive with delegates queuing around the building to get their pass. Facebook has clearly spent money on impressing attendees with lighting and music much like a music concert. We will be uploading videos throughout the day,...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took the stage of Facebook developer conference f8 Thursday to talk about the company’s new Facebook app. That app will become one part of Facebook’s new Timeline and Open Graph apps framework, and could help boost viewership on Netflix’s streaming subscription service by surfacing things users’ friends watch. But while...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a far-reaching music integration at his company’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco Thursday that will enable Facebook users to share music with their friends and listen to songs together in real time. Facebook has teamed up with Spotify, Turntable.fm, Vevo, MOG and close to a dozen other music...