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GUEST: Leave it to Zuck to strut out at F8 and make the announcement about chatbots: They’re happening. As a major component of Facebook’s new Messenger Platform, chatbots will enable businesses to develop a personalized layer of communication and commerce with their customers. Facebook’s is just the latest, and biggest, play in the world of chatbots. […]... →

“You never slow down, you never grow old.” Tom Petty isn’t playing the F8 after-party, but his song encapsulates the point of Facebook’s conference — a social network won’t go extinct if it’s reactive, personalized, and urgent. Everything launched today is designed to eschew the generic. To wrap around the user and bend to their whims to create a… Read More... →

Posted by Kenia[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] The rise and rise of online video content over recent years is showing no signs of slowing. According to Cisco Forecast, video will represent 69% of all consumer-based Internet traffic by 2017; this is expected to rise to 80% by 2019. Meanwhile, another study from Business Insider estimates that video advertising will account for 41% of total desktop display-related spending in 2020 in the US. Looking at these stats, it’s clear that video will continue to be a... →

Posted by Kenia[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] The rise and rise of online video content over recent years is showing no signs of slowing. According to Cisco Forecast, video will represent 69% of all consumer-based Internet traffic by 2017; this is expected to rise to 80% by 2019. Meanwhile, another study from Business Insider estimates that video advertising will account for 41% of total desktop display-related spending in 2020 in the US. Looking at these stats, it’s clear that video will continue to be a... →

At Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the company’s 10 year roadmap and made tons of new announcements. From the Live API to chatbots to a whole new VR camera, here’s everything you need to know. Read More... →

As previously announced, Facebook today opened its Instant Articles format to all developers. Using Instant Articles, publishers can show Facebook mobile users a fast-loading and mostly distraction-free view of their posts while still also showing them a limited amount of their own ads (or use Facebook’s Audience Network to monetize their content) and measure pageviews through tools… Read More... →

No sooner had Facebook announced it was opening up Messenger for developers to build bots, when two players with an eye on sales and service in the enterprise — Salesforce and Zendesk — announced new products to manage Messenger traffic on their respective platforms. Salesforce announced Salesforce Messenger, a way for customers to communicate directly with brands through the… Read More... →

Соцсеть Facebook 12 апреля открыла доступ к сервису публикации «быстрых статей» Instant Articles для всех СМИ и сайтов.... →

There’s an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube, TV, or other Pages, and then post them on Facebook as their own to gain more engagement and fans. This is known as “freebooting”. Video makers were pissed off about it because they were losing video views to others who didn’t have permission to use their clips. Slate sounded the… Read More... →

SAN FRANCISCO — As promised, Facebook today opened up its Instant Articles offering to all publishers, allowing anyone to import their content into the social network and adding it directly to a user’s News Feed. The company said that adoption has been “tremendous” with more than 1,000 publishers worldwide. “We see clear evidence that Instant […]... →

This week Facebook is unveiling the future of its developer platforms during its annual “F8” conference in San Francisco. For more on the future of Messenger, Facebook live video, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and Internet-beaming satellites, read on — and check back for more as we update this list today and tomorrow with breaking stories from our reporters on the ground at […]... →

Facebook launched its Messenger chatbot platform today but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages to people who’ve already started a conversation with them. These “Sponsored Messages” are currently in testing with a small test of advertisers, and are being heavily monitored by Facebook to prevent them getting spammy. The news… Read More... →

Facebook today launched the Facebook Profile Expression Kit, which gives third-party developers a way to publish videos recorded on their apps as profile pictures on Facebook. The service was announced at the company’s annual developer conference, f8, in San Francisco today. Videos that are recorded on third-party services can now be used as profile videos with the new tools. Details are… Read More... →

Marfeel, a startup that helps publishers adapt to mobile, now supports publishing Instant Articles on Facebook. That might not sound like a big breakthrough — basically, it just means Marfeel can repackage articles for Facebook’s new, native publishing format. However, it illustrates today’s mobile strategy means much more than just creating a mobile website or app.… Read More... →

Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference. It lets you create bots for Messenger to search for things and interact with businesses. But what if you want to use machine learning and create more complex scenarios? Meet the Bot Engine, Facebook’s more powerful bot framework. Read More... →

Facebook Live could take live video to a new level of popularity. Now third-party developers will get a chance to participate. Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company said it’s releasing an API for developers who want to plug into Facebook Live, and it also announced the first partners — including Livestream (maker of the Mevo camera), BuzzFeed, Vidpresso… Read More... →

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook today announced the launch of Bot Engine, a tool for teaching chatbots what to say in specific types of situations. The technology — which developers can use in association with the Send/Receive API for building Messenger bots that Facebook announced earlier today — comes from 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... →