Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Note of F8 Keynote

1. Mark emphasizes the bar of good apps, share and meaningful.
2. Mark demos the new profile, emphasizing on feed, easy to share and clean UI(The point is to underscore the feed)
3. Mark announced facebook connect. Digg and other two partners come to demo.
4. Ben announced Principle of Great App.
* Meaningful
-social
-useful
-expressive
-engaging
* Trustworth
-secure
-resfectful
-transparent
* Well-designed
-clean
-fast
-robust

5. Ben announced the launch of new developer website.
6. Ben announced the recipients of the FB fund.
7. Ben announced a new competition. 2 months, 10 million dollars, 25 recipients.
8. Ben announced facebook verification program, emphasizing on the quality of apps.
9. Ben announced facebook great app program, again emphasizing on the quality of apps. Like people reported already, the first two "Great Apps" are iLike and Causes.
10. Explain the reason of shutting down apps.
11. Support for openweb.

The take-home messages are:
Facebook will be more social,more share,more platform like.(of course more share of market)
Facebook will enhance the control of app quaility.

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