{"id":54726,"date":"2016-04-15T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=54726"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:45:00","slug":"announcements-from-facebooks-f8-developer-conference-april-12-13-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/04\/15\/announcements-from-facebooks-f8-developer-conference-april-12-13-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements from Facebook&#8217;s F8 Developer Conference [April 12-13, 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5kavjqTBR0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Everything announced at Facebook\u2019s F8 conference today.\">Everything announced at Facebook\u2019s F8 conference. <\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5kavjqTBR0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5kavjqTBR0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54737\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-10YearRoadmap-AsOfApril2016.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook-10YearRoadmap-AsOfApril2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-10YearRoadmap-AsOfApril2016.jpg 850w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-10YearRoadmap-AsOfApril2016-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-10YearRoadmap-AsOfApril2016-768x340.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5kavjqTBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54740\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-AI-April2016.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook-AI-April2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-AI-April2016.jpg 668w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-AI-April2016-76x150.jpg 76w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Facebook-AI-April2016-520x1024.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2016\/04\/14\/everything-facebook-announced-f8-2016\/#gref\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from thenextweb.com by Natt Garun<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two days of Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/event\/f8\" target=\"_blank\">F8 Conference<\/a> have come and gone, so\u00a0here\u2019s a look back at all the things you may have missed from the event. To learn more about each topic, click the links below for full stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4293054\/facebook-f8-2016-announcements-news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The 5 Biggest Things Facebook Announced This Week<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from time.com by Victor Luckerson<br \/>\n<em>Messaging bots, live video in drones and 360-degree cameras<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a wide-ranging keynote April 12, CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the company\u2019s 10-year plan to \u201cGive everyone the power to share anything with anyone.\u201d To do so, Facebook plans to move far beyond its original role as a social network. The firm aims to launch new virtual reality projects, beam Internet across the world using drones and unleash complex artificial-intelligence bots that can fulfill our every digital need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Before all that can happen, Facebook has to deal with the here and now of improving its current products. On that front, the company made several announcements that will reshape the way people and brands use Facebook and its constellation of apps this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here\u2019s a breakdown of Facebook\u2019s biggest F8 announcements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3058914\/how-facebooks-social-vr-could-be-the-killer-app-for-virtual-reality\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How Facebook&#8217;s Social VR Could Be The Killer App For Virtual Reality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fastcompany.com by<br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s going to take time, but Facebook is committed to developing realistic and satisfying social experiences in VR.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When Facebook bought Oculus VR in 2014 for $2 billion, many observers wondered what the world\u2019s largest social networking company wanted with a virtual reality company whose then-unreleased system was pretty much all about single-user experiences. Today at F8, Facebook\u2019s annual developers conference in San Francisco, the company showed off some of the most fleshed-out examples of how it sees VR as a rich social tool. During his F8 keynote address, CTO Mike Schroepfer talked at length about what Facebook explicitly calls &#8220;social VR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title single-article-entry-title\">\n<p class=\"entry-title single-article-entry-title\">\n<p class=\"entry-title single-article-entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/13\/watch-facebook-social-virtual-reality-demo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook Shows Us What It Means to Be \u2018Social\u2019 in Virtual Reality (Video)<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from recode.net by Kurt Wagner<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title single-article-entry-title\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of the key knocks on virtual reality, <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/03\/24\/two-years-later-facebooks-oculus-acquisition-has-changed-virtual-reality-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\">the gamer-heavy industry Facebook is betting big on<\/a>, is that wearing a headset intended to block out the real world in favor of a virtual one isn\u2019t a very social activity. Facebook, an inherently <em>social<\/em> company, thinks it can change that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbf8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">F8 developer conference<\/a> on Wednesday Facebook demoed what it calls \u201csocial VR,\u201d which is exactly what it sounds like: Connecting two or more real people in a virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vrscout.com\/news\/oculus-demos-vr-selfie-sticks-360-photo-spheres\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Oculus Demos VR Selfie Sticks and 360 Photo Spheres<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from vrscout.com by Jonathan Nafarrete<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">During\u00a0the second day keynote of Facebook\u2019s F8 Developer Conference, Oculus showed off an entirely new way to get social in VR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On stage, Facebook\u2019s CTO Mike Schroepfer showed how 360-degree photos can instantly be shared with a friend in VR, with 360 photos appearing as handheld spheres. You can\u00a0virtually grab the floating sphere and smash it against your face, you will then be\u00a0instantly teleported into the content of the spherical photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-pumFtAjgLY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzhHCcR6hic#t=3.952687\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus Social VR Full Demo &#8211; Facebook F8 Conference 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzhHCcR6hic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@garyvee\/has-facebook-achieved-what-aol-could-have-a-generation-ago-e908f6e4d66e#.ipjvbwx79\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Has Facebook achieved what AOL could have a generation ago?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from medium.com by Gary Vaynerchuk<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[On 4\/12\/16], Facebook opened up <a href=\"https:\/\/instantarticles.fb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instant Articles<\/a> to all publishers. If you don\u2019t know, Instant Articles are Facebook\u2019s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. These native articles, which have a lightning bolt in the top right corner, load in half a second?\u2014?10x faster than if user was to click out to a website. From what I\u2019ve seen so far, they really do load instantaneously and have a great layout and user experience. And if you\u2019re paying attention, you\u2019ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHowever, as of [4\/13\/16], Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. This is a key opportunity for small blogs and publications to get ahead of the game and really understand how best to use the new product.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"anon\">Has Facebook been able to achieve what AOL could have a generation ago? By that I mean: Has Facebook become a layer on top of the Internet itself?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instantarticles.fb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54727 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FacebookInstantArticles-April2016.jpg\" alt=\"FacebookInstantArticles-April2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FacebookInstantArticles-April2016.jpg 765w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FacebookInstantArticles-April2016-150x89.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything announced at Facebook\u2019s F8 conference. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016 &#8212; from thenextweb.com by Natt Garun Excerpt: Two days of Facebook\u2019s F8 Conference have come and gone, so\u00a0here\u2019s a look back at all the things you may have missed from the event. 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