Today at the exhibition center in Fort Mason (San Francisco, USA) held a conference F8, which holds an annual social network Facebook. It will last two days: 25 to 26 March. By registering on the site fbf8.com, users will be able to see "live" broadcast of the event.
Although the primary audience F8 - it's developers, it is also important for the market, as the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), conducted by Apple in the summer. Conference Facebook traditionally serves as a platform for the announcement of new social networking technologies.
Within the F8 social network introduced a significant change in the project Messenger. Out of the ordinary messenger service decided to turn into a platform for the integration of third-party applications. Tools that Facebook provides developers, help them to implement the use of certain functions directly from the Messenger - for example, taking pictures or videos.
Users can share links or information from applications. When you run the platform will be available in the integration of more than 40 programs - among them the utility to send GIF-images, news application ESPN, music and other client Ditty.
Services that support interaction with Messenger, will be available in the App Store and Google Play with a special icon.
Messenger Platform is part of the program Messenger Business, which will help companies communicate with their customers. This is useful, for example, an online store that will be able to tell customers what is now their order. The user can add new entries in order to issue refund or to have things come to him - with the help of the messenger.
Facebook Messenger Platform will be launched within two weeks. The company is preparing a SDK to integrate new applications.