Tag: F8

At last week's D8: All Things Digital conference, Facebook CEO found himself sweating bullets while being grilled onstage by the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. It got so bad, in fact, that Swisher felt compelled to ask him if he was OK, and suggested that he perhaps take off his trademark hoodie. "I never take it off," Zuckerberg reportedly replied. When he realized how ...

Share As we dig deeper and deeper into the announcements that came out of Facebook's F8 developer conference this week, we're finding more things to worry about when it comes to online privacy. We've already discussed the problems with the company's new data retention policies, but what about the centerpiece of its new push, Instant Personalization? The idea is simple enough. Websites ...

Apparently slipping under the radar of some non-developers at the f8 conference yesterday was the fact that Facebook is ditching the limits on data retention for applications. Originally, developers could only store user data for 24 hours before having to flush it and request the information again from Facebook. That restriction has been nixed, and now developers can store user data for as long ...

Share The first day of Facebook's f8 developer conference got underway yesterday in San Francisco. After welcoming their attendees with a set of ankle bracelets discretely packaged as RFID tags, Mark Zuckerberg & Co. got down to the business of explaining their plans to take over the entire Internet. The RFID devices enabled users to tag themselves in photos and share their location and ...

Share Facebook is getting ready to blanket the entire Web with its "like" functionality. According to TechCrunch, The Good Book will soon introduce tools for Web publishers to add deeper integration with Facebook. Though it may be the largest social network to spread across the Web, Twitter announced earlier this month at SXSW @anywhere, a similar idea that radically simplifies sharing Web ...