Facebook F8: Restructuring And Hit 800 Million Users

Facebook on Thursday issued a completely new profile design, which is called the timeline, a few new verbs to go to the How to button, such as reading, listening, watching, and used for cooking, as well as some numbers as well - between which € 800,000,000.

Although the focus of the discourse CEO Mark Zuckerberg at F8 conference in San Francisco has been the development of new products, Spotify and CEO, Daniel Ek, said that Facebook has surpassed 800 million users. Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, Bret Taylor, has confirmed that, in fact, a press conference after the keynote. But not until he mentioned during the keynote that more than 350 million people use Facebook on mobile devices a month.

Zuckerberg Keynote early also said that on one day recently, Facebook had more than 500 million users in general, reflects the fact that, yes, the user base the world's most popular social network is active.

This is the user base, of course, that the partners involved in launching new Facebook "social graph" and try to exploit Chronology applications. More than three dozen partners have created applications for the new design, based on actions of Facebook, including the names of heavyweights like Hulu and Netflix on video, Electronic Arts, Zynga, and Disney Kabam in the game, Mog Spotify , RDIO and iheartradio Turntable.FM upstart in the music.

Significantly, but not unexpectedly absent in the music / film / TV / books / apps ago, Apple and Google - Facebook seems to be rivals to lift its shares against.

The purpose of the program planning and more focused on sharing new applications is part of getting users to spend more time on Facebook, not only for their social networking, but also for media consumption.

Facebook wants to be first in the world will stop looking for in music, movies, news, books and even recipes. But when you are competing with Apple, Google and other rivals such as Twitter, that they do so outside of Facebook applications to integrate with Facebook, which is made without an app store like iTunes or on an application such as Android Market.

In fact, for the moment Facebook is not the intention of having an app store for everyone.

"We did not really intend to take the App Store," Taylor said after the keynote. "The main way people find the Apps is true that their friends with their applications. Serendipity This is the discovery of the app, and every feature on Facebook, really."