Mark Zuckerberg wants developers of Facebook apps help you further adapted to the times.
Facebook Year Last changed its unofficial motto of “ move fast and break things ” (which in Spanish translates as: “Move fast and stir things”) to “ move fast With stable infrastructure “(” move faster with a stable infrastructure “), a sign that would impose an inconsistent or unusual about their partners program.
Now, hopefully, the founder and CEO of Facebook will share a new message with programmers who will meet this week at the F8 developer conference in San Francisco. The message is: work together
Facebook is a powerful technology company, with sweeping advertising sales and profits.. Last year alone, the world’s largest social network reported that its sales rose nearly 60 percent to US $ 12,500 million, while earnings rose more than a third. Nearly 900 million people – or 1 in 7 people in the world – use the site every day, making it one of the most influential companies in the Web
But Zuckerberg knows that to keep that. path, Facebook needs help developers apps, any size and any industry. When users connect to their service – either to upload pictures, play games, share articles or to submit advertising – Facebook becomes more integrated into the lives of its consumers. And Zuckerberg wants more: more apps that represent more ways to engage users in order to attract more publicity (almost all sales of Facebook are advertising)
Basically, developers are the creators. factor that makes Facebook an addictive service
In a way, these developer conferences have two objectives. They are promotional as well as educational. “It is for developers working with them, keep in mind and create interest in their products,” said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Capital.
And this interest rate is key not only to the survival and growth of the social networking giant. As Facebook grows, so does his boldness to face the likes of Google and Snapchat. Therefore, developers need partners to strengthen their position.
Facebook also has a lot of competition when capturing the attention and time from developers. Over the coming months, Microsoft, Google and Apple will host its own developer conference in San Francisco, seeking to attract potential partners and inspire the next startup successful.
A year Messaging
One of the most important trends in technology last year was the messenger. Snapchat, estimates, has more than 100 million monthly users. WeChat, which is used mainly in Asia, connecting more than 438 million active users. This explains the interest of Facebook messaging. The company allegedly tried to buy Snapchat by US $ 3,000 million in 2013. Six months later, said it would pay US $ 19,000 per WhatsApp, which helps millions of people to bypass the charges for text messages between countries. Starting this January, more than 700 million people around the world used WhatsApp. Facebook also started last year to require its mobile users send messages by independent app Messenger. The reason for the change?
“Messaging is one of the few things that people spend more time on social networks,” said Zuckerberg in November. It’s a matter of numbers: in some countries, more people use an app chat or messaging Facebook, said
It is expected that the company will announce this week a new functionality to Messenger to make it easier for you. developers share content between your apps and social networking service.
A Facebook spokesman declined to give a comment.
With view to the future
One of the key presentations will be when Facebook speaks on the future of virtual reality, which gives you an immersive experience of other worlds to users of 3D glasses. After years of being categorized as science fiction, virtual reality could gain more popularity.
At the heart of this change is Oculus, who first caught the interest of the consumer in 2012, when it began selling prototypes US $ 300. The video game industry in particular saw the virtual reality as a new feature to boost sales, and so companies like Sony, Microsoft and HTC phone manufacturer took to produce glasses.
Last year Facebook has agreed to buy Oculus over US $ 2,000 million. At the time, Zuckerberg said the technology has the potential to revolutionize how people use their computers and how they communicate.
This week, Facebook and Zuckerberg give us a glimpse of how virtual reality will impact our lives . And thus, they encourage developers about the role they can play in this change. The question is whether they want to participate.
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