Facebook Unveils Development Roadmap
Facebook gathered developers together to share changes and improvements it plans to roll out over the next two quarters. The event, dubbed Facebook Developer Garage Palo Alto - Roadmap Edition, was also streamed over the Web simultaneously via Ustream.
Facebook co-founder, CEO and president Mark Zuckerberg kicked things off by providing some background regarding where Facebook is now and the vision for the future. Zuckerberg began by saying "Facebook Platform is quickly becoming, along with Connect, is quickly becoming one of the most important parts of our strategy."
Zuckerberg then introduced Ethan Beard, director of business development for Facebook and the leader of the Platform developer team, to walk through the development roadmap and answer questions from developers about how the changes will impact the API's and the applications that have already been developed.
