What is Facebook Likely to Present at F8?
Here are 4 product related news that I think Facebook is potentially announcing at their developer conference:
- Payments: They are expected to be opening up their payment platform for broad usage (in partnership with PayPal). Facebook payments is already used by a small set of developers.
- Location API: They will also probably announce some new changes to their API around location. This will probably lead to interesting integrations. For example Foursquare updates would also update your Facebook location. And then that location would be accessible by other apps. This is similar functionality to what Yahoo's FireEagle was supposed to do.
- Local Business Tools: There has been some talk that the company has been working on a service for local businesses however if that will be announced at F8 is still unclear.
- Open Graph API: They are also likely to release the Open Graph API which allows any site on the web to have similar functionality as a Facebook page. i.e. a community of fans, status updates, etc.
