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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... →

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... →

An upgrade to Twitter’s Moments feature, originally designed to offer users a curated “best of Twitter” experience, now turns Moments into a source for tweetable playlists. Through an ongoing partnership with music streaming service SoundCloud, Twitter Moments will now allow curators to create and share Moments containing SoundCloud’s audio cards – that is,… 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 […]... →

Издание Selfmadetrip рассказало об условиях для бизнеса в Канаде и перечислило документы, которые потребуются стартаперу при переезде, а также основные бизнес-инкубаторы в стране.... →

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 […]... →

GUEST: Game brands continued ramping down in March, with the industry spending an estimated $35.7 million on 20,541 airings of 92 commercial spots. It’s down nearly $2 million from their total spend in February. Thirty brands stuck mostly with their tried-and-true creative, with less than one-third of the aired ads debuting for the first time in […]... →

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... →