Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 [LIVE]

by John Hartman on April 21, 2010

F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making major announcements to an audience of developers and press. Here are my live notes: Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote – It took only 15 months for 100 million users to use Facebook Connect. – Asking for user permission via Facebook Connect will now be a one-step permission process, rather than requiring multiple permissions. – The developer policy of not storing user data for more than 24 hours is now gone. This will give developers more time to use user data via Facebook Connect. – Credits are still in beta — there were no major announcements. – There isn’t an easy way to connect different social graphs — for example, your Facebook social graph and your Yelp social graph. There’s an issue in linking your favorite restaurants to your friends. – Zuckerberg: “We’re going to connect all of these graphs together to create the Open Graph.” via mashable.com

We will be covering this in the class very interesting.

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