About 2,000 people gathered at the Facebook Developer Conference Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco will be given. Mark Zuckerberg , founder of social network , was the keynote speaker and announced the launch of Messenger Platform, a communication platform that will revolutionize the world of applications .
Zuckerberg explained how Facebook users now can interact with pages and businesses in the same way as they do through their friends with a message. So , people can order products entering the pages of millions of company. That is, this would replace applications businesses to interact with them because only one application is needed : Facebook
Messenger Platform will also change the way users consume content , said Zuckerberg , because instead of seeing the updates on the Facebook wall , will receive them as short messages that can open or reject , which will help the application to refine the algorithm and show people the contents that interest them based on their history .
Zuckerberg also talked about Facebook Live , an application of live streaming video that can tune the wedding of a cousin on the other side of the world or watch Martha Stewart bakes cookies .
The function , which was launched in late January and is now available in 60 countries, allows anyone to transmit a live video on your Facebook using a smartphone. It is available for regular users , but has been particularly requested by the media , by celebrities or people who want to be famous and brands that have many followers on Facebook .
He also mentioned to Aquila , the enormous drone that built the social network. " If ten years ago you had told me that Facebook was going to build a huge plane , I would have said you were crazy . But here we are now ," joked Zuckerberg.
The function, which was launched in late January and is now available in 60 countries, allows anyone to transmit a live video on your Facebook using a smartphone. It is available for regular users, but has been particularly requested by the media, by celebrities or people who want to be famous and brands that have many followers on Facebook.
He also mentioned to Aquila, the enormous drone that built the social network. "If ten years ago you had told me that Facebook was going to build a huge plane, you would have said you were crazy. But here we are now," joked Zuckerberg.
Facebook Aquila drone is a solar-powered aircraft that will bring internet to remote and underserved areas.
Facebook has just built a giant solar drone that remain in the stratosphere for months at a time, transmitting broadband Internet to rural and hard to reach areas.
The drone, called Aquila, is the baby of one year Facebook Connectivity Lab. The laboratory has been developing new technology as part of the mission of the social network to "connect everyone in the world