Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO — Twilio has extended its API support to Facebook Messenger, thereby offering its developers another medium from which to communicate with their users. The integration means that the cloud communications platform not only provides phone and SMS as an outlet, it now offers a way to use the messaging app with its 900 million […]... →

While chatbots might be the highlight of today’s F8 conference, Facebook is also releasing a slew of tools for developers that help them build, grow, and monetize their apps. Despite Facebook shutting down its Parse development platform, it’s still adding new widgets, buttons, and APIs. Account Kit is a new plugin for apps that lets users signup with their phone number or email… Read More... →

At Facebook’s F8 developers conference this morning, the company shared some interesting metrics related to the traction and growth of its popular messaging applications, Messenger and WhatsApp. One especially notable figure CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled was that Facebook’s two messaging services, when combined, saw more activity on a daily basis than SMS (traditional texting).… Read More... →

Facebook has created a 360-degree camera to capture virtual reality imagery produced by its Oculus Rift VR headset. That solves a problem that is commonly experienced by the few folks who have their own VR headsets today. The company made the announcement at its F8 conference in San Francisco today. Facebook’s Oculus division, which it […]... →

How can Facebook get more 360-degree video in the News Feed and VR content on Oculus? By inventing its own virtual reality camera from scratch and open sourcing it so people can build their own and start shooting. Today at F8, Facebook revealed the “Surround 360”, a 17-lens 3D VR camera that looks like a UFO on a stick and requires almost zero laborious post-production work,… Read More... →

Facebook открыла для сторонних разработчиков возможность создавать собственных ботов для мессенджера социальной сети. Об этом основатель и глава компании Марк Цукерберг объявил на конференции для разработчиков F8.... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook announced today that it was opening up its Messenger platform in beta and now lets chatbots into the app. What this means is that you’re now able to interact with an AI-powered “representative” from a business right on one of the largest conversation service out in the market today. At the F8 […]... →

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook is announcing a new way for users to clip quotes they like on the web and then share them in a clean and neat way in the News Feed. For many years, people have dropped images of quotes right into the News Feed, but the […]... →

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, said that virtual reality and augmented reality of the future will be accessible by a powerful gadget that looks like an ordinary pair of glasses. VR and AR are expected to become a $120 billion business by 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital. Zuckerberg made the announcement at its […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said that it’s moving forward with efforts to connect the rest of the world to the Internet. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company’s Internet.org program has made progress and will be launching its first satellite in the next few months. In addition, its Free Basics initiative has now helped […]... →

Facebook today announced the launch of Account Kit, a piece of new software third-party developers can add to apps that will let end users sign in with just an email or a phone number — no passwords necessary. Once app users enter their phone number or email address, the service will send them a code […]... →

Facebook тестирует послабление правила «20% текста» для рекламных изображений, сообщает Wersm cо ссылкой на представителей социальной сети. Это правило было введено несколько лет назад, чтобы сохранить внешний вид новостной ленты. И оно работало – ограничение побуждало компании проявлять большую креативность. С другой стороны, многие рекламные объявления отклонялись в связи с превышением лимита на количество текста в изображениях. А некоторые бренды не могли рекламироваться по той причине, что их логотип с... →

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook today is announcing that for the first time it’s making its “Save to Facebook” button — for adding content to a list of things to look at later — available for use on websites other than its own. Facebook introduced the Save button in 2014, […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has announced a set of partners for its livestreaming product. The company has opened up its live API, something that it plans on building out in the next five years. Introduced in August, Facebook Live is the social networking company’s response to Meerkat and Periscope. The company has said that it […]... →

Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, ecommerce guidance, content, and interactive experience through “Agents on Messenger”, Facebook’s term for chatbots. By providing utility through its huge developer and business ecosystem, Facebook could boost loyalty with Messenger, one-up SMS, and keep up chat competitors like Kik, Line and… Read More... →

Российский инвестор Юрий Мильнер вложит $100 млн в проект Breakthrough Starshot, цель которого — запуск космического аппарата со скоростью 160 млн км/ч до звезды альфа Центавра, сообщает РБК. Деньги будут потрачены на программу исследовательских грантов, условия которой будут объявлены дополнительно. В совет директоров проекта, вошёл Юрий Мильнер и физик Стивен Хокинг, основатель социальной сети Facebook Марк Цукерберг. Breakthrough Starshot назначен Пит Ворден, бывший руководитель научно-исследовательско... →

Facebook developers, it’s that time of year when the social networking company holds its annual F8 conference. Held in San Francisco from April 12-13, the keynotes for both days will be livestreamed as well as some of the afternoon sessions, so if you’re not able to make it, you can watch what new products and […]... →

Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote starting at 10am. There’ll also be more streamed sessions all day today and tomorrow. Here’s the full schedule for the stream: Day 1 (April 12) 10AM PT: Keynote 12PM PT: Messenger… Read More... →

Картинки с большим объемом текста будут проходить модерацию, но получат меньший охват ... →

Facebook тестирует отказ от правила «максимум 20% текста» на изображениях в рекламных заметках. Об этом сообщает издание Wersm со ссылкой на представителей Facebook.... →