Facebook is moving towards the goal with Zuckerberg "connecting everything"

Facebook, the world's biggest social platform, is making a solid move towards that goal, with Zuckerberg's grand vision of "Connecting everything".

at the 2015 Facebook Developers ' Conference on 25th, Zuckerberg unveiled a further plan for how Facebook can connect with people, business, and Hardware: Facebook Messenger began not just to meet the newsletter, With the new payment function, this 600 million-month-old tool will not only become a deep social tool for users, but will also serve as a platform for exchanges and transactions between users and merchants. The parse, which provides developers with basic services, emphasizes the focus on the "Internet of Things" application development in this Conference. At the same time, Facebook provides developers with more tools to meet the needs of developers and users.

Derik Mains, a spokeswoman for
Facebook Messenger, said at the scene that he believed that Messenger's future as a platform had two advantages: one is that Facebook has built up a huge user base, Derrick Mans. Second, from the initial stage of development is not limited to the replacement of the location of SMS.


, a UK developer, said that the upcoming Messenger's functionality to connect with merchants was very relevant to the E-business ventures he was working on, while parse was a great support for developers of smart hardware applications.


Messenger wants to do platform: deep social and connect merchant


, Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, presented the new features of Messenger to all the developers present, including deeper social functions and connections to merchants.


Future Messenger's global 600 million users will be able to use third-party tools to socialize on the Messenger platform, including the ability to combine photos with voice, animate from photos, and implement dynamic images, and at present, ESPN, JibJab and Giphy have become the first partners, and new features can be used today.


Messenger's "Connect Business" feature, launched at this meeting, call it "reshaping business interactions", linking ordinary users to business more immediately and quickly, such as the scene where Zuckerberg's live demo user contacted an online retailer to track the delivery path in real time, When the order needs to be changed, the user can contact the merchant directly.


Messenger Department spokesman Derrick Mans (Derrick mains) at the conference on the scene of Tencent technology, said Messenger hope that the future of the function of the mailbox, so that users can more quickly and efficiently contact the merchant.


He says he is working with a number of businesses and is expected to implement the functionality in Messenger within the next few weeks.


Mance that, compared to many other real-time communications tools, Messenger has two advantages, one is Facebook's huge user base, can log in directly with Facebook account, no need to register separately, Second, messenger from the early development of the concept of social networking, not just from the point of view of simple text message substitution.


"I think that the future of real-time communications alternative email must be a trend. "Mance said.


a domestic developer of Tencent Technology, Messenger's new features, it is easy to associate with the recent micro-letter launched the "industry solution."


another British developer said that he was excited by Messenger's "Connecting business" feature, a developer named Daniel, who said his start-up company was engaged in e-commerce-related businesses, messenger and business connections, giving them more room for imagination.


But there are developers who have expressed a neutral assessment of the role of Messenger in the future, and he believes that the concept of connecting with merchants is good, but the real implementation may be a long process.


Messenger has just announced the payment function a week ago, also pave the window for connecting the merchant, the user can use Messenger directly to make online payment operation in the future.


Parse Enter intelligent hardware


the other major theme of the F8 Congress is parse's support for the "IoT of Things", parse founder Sukha (Ilya Sukhar) said parse will provide developers with new tools to connect to smart devices, as in the past, parse is responsible for backend services, including app Analytics and diagnostics, Send reminders to users and collect system crash data.


in the conference site, parse booth attracted a lot of developers to come to the consultation. Parse provides developers with the basics of software-control hardware services that enable developers to focus more on the implementation of specific functions.


Facebook staff demonstrated a live-parse cloud service that uses mobile apps to control the toy car, and the phone is connected to the car through the same WiFi environment.


a developer to Tencent Technology, parse services, for the development of specific applications of developers save a lot of time and energy, based on the parse has built a good infrastructure, developers can focus on the implementation of hardware control of specific functions.


In addition, Facebook's offerings for content and services have increased, for example in terms of video content, and Facebook's support services for video content have been followed by the rapid growth of Facebook-based video content. With Facebook's daily video browsing volume of about 3 billion, Facebook unveiled the enhanced version of the video embedding and commenting tool to developers on a single line of code, while supporting more diverse video formats, Zuckerberg announced on the same day. Facebook's summary page and virtual reality device Oculus will support "spherical stereo video", a more immersive experience that captures images from different angles of multiple cameras.


on service support for developers, Facebook has launched free tools to help developers assess the use of apps on different device platforms, as well as tools to evaluate their marketing effects.


Site A developer told Tencent that the first day of this year's F8 conference did not exceed what he had expected, but that developers would be able to directly dock with Facebook's relevant departments during the meeting to help solve problems in development.