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In the Facebook developer conference last year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to endorse expanding the scope of its business far beyond the social network and all parts of the Internet.
In today's edition of F8, Zuckerberg is in turn expected to focus on Facebook for the introduction of features - including a music social entertainment and a dashboard long awaited iPhone - designed to improve how members spend their time in the social network.
In fact, the Palo Alto company has already played with - again - with its interface. As expected, members of Facebook are complaining loudly about the changes on Tuesday night, including a new Twitter-style, scrolling news "symbol" and a redesigned news service to display messages Facebook algorithms considered as the most important.
With 750 million monthly active users worldwide and Facebook buttons linking to the stories, videos and other content on hundreds of thousands of external Web sites, Facebook has succeeded in spreading their "social graph" in the manner provided inZuckerberg F8 the last in April 2010. The question remains how the Palo Alto company take advantage of their massive reach and consumption data it generates.
"What is the market value of an" equal? "Said analyst Mike McGuire, research vice president at Gartner Industry Advisory Board." There is tremendous scope in Facebook and that's great, but that's only part of the equation now is:.? Well, how is this system going to work and more importantly, how it will work on a sustainable basis? "
The one-day conference for Facebook developers, analysts and journalists who follow the company will be in the Design Center of San Francisco. About 1,500 people attended the last F8 on the same premises, but Facebook is not saying how many are expected this time.
Keep quiet
On the other hand, Facebook has been pushing developers who are in the plans say nothing until the official announcement Zuckerberg ago this morning.
However, according to technology executives from various analysts and published reports, the two major announcements revolve around the theme of "see, hear and read." There are reports that Facebook is introducing new sharing buttons for actions.
A feature is a dash of social entertainment that allows members to share songs, video programs and see what their friends are enjoying. According to several reports, the feature to include songs can be shared online as a streaming service Spotify, Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody.
Sam Hamadeh - PrivCo executive director, a privately held New York research company that draws from sources within companies like Facebook - said his staff and Facebook team has found source code for the function of the new music Rhapsody integrated audio and sharing platform SoundCloud.
He noted that Facebook has introduced a social game dashboard that lists the games that are currently or recently played by a member of the Facebook network of friends.
Hamadeh said the idea behind social entertainment share is similar to Beacon, Facebook's disastrous feature introduced in 2007 that automatically share what members were shopping online. Facebook Beacon closed after a firestorm over privacy rights and a class action.
But Hamadeh said share what you're listening or watching, should not have the same potential for backlash, though the names of the song "tell us a little about your mood. And your boss may be wondering what you're doing to watch videos during all day. "
The main announcement is expected to be a Facebook application for the iPad. The company has long had applications for mobile phones, but nothing that took advantage of the Apple Tablet computer best-seller.
In today's edition of F8, Zuckerberg is in turn expected to focus on Facebook for the introduction of features - including a music social entertainment and a dashboard long awaited iPhone - designed to improve how members spend their time in the social network.
In fact, the Palo Alto company has already played with - again - with its interface. As expected, members of Facebook are complaining loudly about the changes on Tuesday night, including a new Twitter-style, scrolling news "symbol" and a redesigned news service to display messages Facebook algorithms considered as the most important.
With 750 million monthly active users worldwide and Facebook buttons linking to the stories, videos and other content on hundreds of thousands of external Web sites, Facebook has succeeded in spreading their "social graph" in the manner provided inZuckerberg F8 the last in April 2010. The question remains how the Palo Alto company take advantage of their massive reach and consumption data it generates.
"What is the market value of an" equal? "Said analyst Mike McGuire, research vice president at Gartner Industry Advisory Board." There is tremendous scope in Facebook and that's great, but that's only part of the equation now is:.? Well, how is this system going to work and more importantly, how it will work on a sustainable basis? "
The one-day conference for Facebook developers, analysts and journalists who follow the company will be in the Design Center of San Francisco. About 1,500 people attended the last F8 on the same premises, but Facebook is not saying how many are expected this time.
Keep quiet
On the other hand, Facebook has been pushing developers who are in the plans say nothing until the official announcement Zuckerberg ago this morning.
However, according to technology executives from various analysts and published reports, the two major announcements revolve around the theme of "see, hear and read." There are reports that Facebook is introducing new sharing buttons for actions.
A feature is a dash of social entertainment that allows members to share songs, video programs and see what their friends are enjoying. According to several reports, the feature to include songs can be shared online as a streaming service Spotify, Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody.
Sam Hamadeh - PrivCo executive director, a privately held New York research company that draws from sources within companies like Facebook - said his staff and Facebook team has found source code for the function of the new music Rhapsody integrated audio and sharing platform SoundCloud.
He noted that Facebook has introduced a social game dashboard that lists the games that are currently or recently played by a member of the Facebook network of friends.
Hamadeh said the idea behind social entertainment share is similar to Beacon, Facebook's disastrous feature introduced in 2007 that automatically share what members were shopping online. Facebook Beacon closed after a firestorm over privacy rights and a class action.
But Hamadeh said share what you're listening or watching, should not have the same potential for backlash, though the names of the song "tell us a little about your mood. And your boss may be wondering what you're doing to watch videos during all day. "
The main announcement is expected to be a Facebook application for the iPad. The company has long had applications for mobile phones, but nothing that took advantage of the Apple Tablet computer best-seller.
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