Facebook's 2015 F8 developer conference keynote

CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders take the stage at the social network's developer conference in San Francisco.

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Nick Statt 3/25/2015 5:09:07 PM
Connectivity is a little wonky over at the Fort Mason center, so I'm here bringing you the details of Zuckerberg's keynote address.
Nick Statt 3/25/2015 5:09:56 PM
Facebook is making a new commitment to fix all major bug fixes with 48 hours, reiterating its "important theme of stability" that it established at last year's conference, says Zuckerberg.
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"When people feel good about their privacy and security, that's when they're open to trying new experiences," Zuck says. Talking about Facebook Login now, the company's app certification service, now used by 80 percent of the world's top grossing apps.
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Apps are now asking for 50 percent fewer permissions and are seeing 10 percent increase in the number of people logging in, Zuck says, after Facebook urged developers to better respect user privacy.
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Zuckerberg is touching on ThreatExchange, Facebook's new data-sharing social network for businesses to share information about hacks, similar to the US government's new cybersecurity initiative announced earlier this year.
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"We've already heard of thousands of developers that want to join," Zuck says. Tech giants like Netflix, Microsoft and Yahoo are already on board today.
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"Now let's talk a bit about the future." Here comes some news.
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"Facebook used to be this single blue app that did a lot of different things. Now Facebook is a family of different apps," Zuck says.
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More than 1.4 billion people use the core Facebook app, but more than 700M use Groups and WhatsApp and 600M use Messenger, he says.
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Going from being a single service to a family of apps is the biggest strategic shift Facebook has made in many years, Zuck says.
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Zuck philosophizing about the future, says video is the new forefront and after that, augmented and virtual reality.
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"In order to keep up with this future ... we need to be able to build tools for people to share all the different types of content they're sharing," Zuck says.
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"We're starting to see traditional video blend with even more immersive content." We're talking about new types of video now, like spherical, 360-degree views of real environments. Think an eagle-eye view of Google Street Maps.
Nick Statt 3/25/2015 5:17:23 PM
Facebook will soon be supporting these so-called spherical videos in the network's News Feed. "We're going to build spherical videos to Oculus too," Zuck says.
Ian Sherr 3/25/2015 5:17:26 PM
Sorry everyone, finally back up! Hopefully it'll stay that way. So, we finally know what the teleportation station is -- a way to play with Oculus. Oh well, no Star Trek for me.
Ian Sherr 3/25/2015 5:18:27 PM
Today, they're going to fix this -- " an elegant and consistent way to share" across the whole family of FB services (Instagram?? Finally? Please)
Ian Sherr 3/25/2015 5:19:15 PM
Notice that it's different from Apple's share-sheet in iOS. FB Is taking its own direction on this. We'll see if app developers join in.
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"People want to be able to share into messages, people want to be share into groups," Zuck says.
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Zuck talks about how the company has added to Messenger with photos, videos, location, and voice calling. Apparently Messenger represents 10% of internet connected phone calls. And payments. "We have a lot more planned in the months ahead," he adds.
Ian Sherr 3/25/2015 5:20:51 PM
Improving Messenger with all these features themselves, though. Today, announcing Messenger Platform-- a way for developers to hook their apps into the service.
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We'll allow people to express themselves in new ways, and make their conversations better,"
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What'll happen is that in the app, you'll tap on a button with three circles (indicating more) on the right side
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above the keyboard.
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Then you choose apps you want to install. One example is Jib Jab, inserting your photo into a funny GIF.
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He talks about the history of communication -- the telegraph, the telephone, email.
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Partners for Messenger Platform include Ditty, JibJab, Giphy, FlipLip Voice Changer, Memes, PicCollage Gif Cam and others
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Nick Statt 3/25/2015 5:57:19 PM
Hey everyone, connectivity is still the bane of our existence over at Fort Mason. Back here with updates.
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We're back to Zuck for closing remarks here at the F8 keynote.
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"In the next decade, we're going to be able to build some amazing things together," Zuck says. He notes that Michael Abrash, the chief scientist at Oculus, will be talking virtual reality.
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"Let's go connect the world," Zuck says, wrapping up the keynote.
Nick Statt 3/25/2015 6:05:07 PM
Thanks everyone for tuning in and bearing with us while we grappled with the Internet. Check Cnet.com/news for all the F8 news. Here's the details so far:

- Facebook expands Messenger to work with other apps like ESPN, The Weather Channel
- How-to use Facebook's new Messenger sharing features