Facebook’s F8 conference: all the highlights | Stuff

This Wednesday marked the opening day of F8, Facebook’s 2-day annual developer conference. Every year it sets the masterminds of the internet buzzing with announcements on the future of everyone’s favourite procrastination platform. Rest assured, the California-based social media giant did not disappoint.

Slightly less eye-popping though it may be, the announcement that Facebook videos will now be embeddable (with a single line of code) is an important one.

In the ongoing turf war between Facebook and YouTube (the former offering instant accessibility, the latter greater functionality), a move to allow users to externally embed those videos might see the ‘Book gaining ground with personal video shooters – it’s the platform most of them are already using, after all.

The reach of YouTube as a business platform seems pretty stable, though, equally, it’s unlikely Facebook will turn down the cash in favour of keeping embedded vids ad-free.

The Messenger Platform means developers will be at liberty to add new functionality – think doodles, more emojis, on-the-go photo editors, and the like.

 

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