Facebook:
Who doesn't know Facebook right?In fact because of the movie, everyone even knows about the story of Facebook's inception.To recap:Facebook is a social networking site launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates Eduardo Saverin,Andrew McCollum,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.Registered users can create profiles,upload photos and videos,chat, send messages etc.It was originally created only for Harvard students then gradually grew to include other colleges and finally today anyone over the age of 13.It is available in 37 different languages.The most popular features is the Wall which is like a virtual bulletin board.Since May 2007 Facebook opened its developer's platform to let third party developers build applications and widgets.Once approved these could be distributed and publically used.Facebook offers a range of privacy settings to its users, but of course the site keeps getting a lot of flak from privacy advocates from time to time.A little known fact about the Facebook homepages is that the before 2007 it contained Al Pacino's face which was dubbed 'the Facebook Guy'.
Facebook f8:
Facebook f8 is a yearly conference event held by facebook.It takes place in San Francisco California.
It was started with the purpose of bringing together all the entrepreneurs and developers who are contributing to building the social web.The social web is an abstract concept which describes social relations that foster social interaction and link people through the web.The highlight of Facebook F8 is the starting keynote speech by Zuckerberg himself followed by discussions on various topics.Just after the event Facebook conducts an eight hour 'hackathon' which is where this events gets the name F8. All new feature and announcements from Facebook are made public here for the first time.Similar events have been held by Apple -World wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) and Google- Google I/O.
Facebook f8:
Facebook f8 is a yearly conference event held by facebook.It takes place in San Francisco California.
It was started with the purpose of bringing together all the entrepreneurs and developers who are contributing to building the social web.The social web is an abstract concept which describes social relations that foster social interaction and link people through the web.The highlight of Facebook F8 is the starting keynote speech by Zuckerberg himself followed by discussions on various topics.Just after the event Facebook conducts an eight hour 'hackathon' which is where this events gets the name F8. All new feature and announcements from Facebook are made public here for the first time.Similar events have been held by Apple -World wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) and Google- Google I/O.
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