Facebook f8

The Facebook f8 (pronounced "eff eight") conference is a yearly event held by Facebook and takes place in San Francisco, California.[1] Its mission is to bring together the developers and entrepreneurs who are building the social web. The conference starts with a keynote speech by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg followed by various breakout sessions concentrating on specific topics. It is known for being the place where Facebook introduces new features and announcements to the public for the first time. The name "f8" derives from the tradition at Facebook of having a big eight hour Hackathon just after the event.

The scheduling of f8 has been somewhat erratic, with no conference in 2009 and date was announced late for 2011. The 2012 conference has not yet been scheduled.

Contents

2007

This was the first f8 event, held May 24, at the San Francisco Design Center in San Francisco. The notion of the social graph was introduced for the first time.

2008

The 2008 f8 event was held July 23, at the San Francisco Design Center once again. News and announcements from this event included:

2009

The 2009 event was omitted entirely.

2010

The 2010 f8 event was held April 21 at the San Francisco Design Center. The main announcement was the feature to add a “Like” button to any piece of content on a website by the owner. This feature is now integrated within around 2.5 million websites worldwide, with 10,000 more being added daily.

Additional news and announcements included:

2011

The 2011 f8 happened on September 22, 2011. Facebook introduced 'Timeline' that showed a history of user's activity on their profile and also a broader version of 'Open Graph'.

F8 2011 event was mainly focused on introducing new products, Transforming industries, building & growing social Apps and product Q&A. Some of the details of the topics are as follows :

References

External links