Facebook update from F8

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23 July: Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote webcast “We’ve got one guy in Greenland”. “We’re opening up the translation tool.” Mr Z gets a big ‘whoo’ from the audience for the annoucement that you no longer will have to sign up for apps as a user, you can just use them. Right on.

23 July: TechCrunch liveblogging the conference

23 July: Notes from jowyang’s twitter stream, compressed on TinyPaste so you get a feel for it, sitting in front of the front row on ground, a few feet from Zuckerberg. His blog post highlights the Facebook Connect news:

“Facebook Connect will allow corporate websites to authenticate, interact, and share with their Facebook network –all without leaving the corporate website. Boring, static corporate websites can now become social.” Launch FC partners are CNET, CBS and Disney.

 

 

 

 

Qik Goes Public

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“Qik, the video service that streams live feeds from your mobile phone, has finally launched its public beta. The site has also introduced a number of new features to the service, including support for restricted group access to videos, self-service event streams, and a new embeddable player.

“The beta will support a wide variety of phones on AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint, including support for software on the Windows Mobile platform that began testing in June. Qik says that it will be continually adding new phones to the supported list, which you can view here.

“The site has also implemented support for Groups, which allow users to select who can upload and view selected clips. Among the included privacy options are allowance for public groups, which anyone can post to, restricted groups, which allow anyone to view (but only select users to post), and a private view, which restricts viewing and uploading to a specified group of users.” (thanks to Techcrunch)

PS: Hmm, Qik’s certainly fashionable right now.