NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Facebook announced several new products and features that soon release on its platform, all designed to make it easier to communicate with people and businesses.
The company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and other executives, presented this collection of improvements on Wednesday under F8 developer conference of the company.
1. Spherical videos on your news feed and helmet Oculus VR (if you have one )
Facebook will soon have videos recorded with camera 360 degrees (the same technology used to capture photos of Google Maps Street View). These videos allow you to change the perspective you see by clicking and dragging on the screen.
YouTube recently announced that it will also support this format. Because video has become a ubiquitous format for sharing content may be expected that these two companies to launch more features soon.
2. You can track your purchases online and communicate with companies in Messenger
Facebook messaging application will soon be integrated into e-commerce sites. In the future, when you make a purchase online, you can choose to link to your account so that companies can send you notifications regarding your purchases directly in the Messenger.
If you hate receiving numerous emails confirming your order, we will indicate when it was sent, and if you returned it was received, would appreciate this update.
3. Reply messages using other applications
Now you can open third party applications like Giphy (used to create animated gifs) within the own Messenger to send a message. Previously, you had to close the application, open Giphy, create a GIF, and then copy it to a message.
“I really feel that together we have the opportunity to reinvent how billion people communicate every day,” said David Marcus, team leader Messenger on Facebook. He also declared his love for GIF. “They make the world a little better.”
Messenger also allow third parties supported now invite people to download their applications directly through the Messenger platform.
4. The videos you post on Facebook can be embedded in other online
Before, if you you climbed a video to Facebook alone could share through a link. This change seeks people find more appealing upload their videos on YouTube Facebook instead.
5. If you comment a story anywhere else online, will also be shown on Facebook
The next time you want to comment on an article you read, remember that soon this comment will appear automatically on Facebook accompanied by the story you mention. With this change, the media companies will be easier for readers to participate and engage with your content.
This innovation is tested at the BuzzFeed media companies, EliteDaily, The Huffington Post, Fox Sports and more.
6. You can control multiple devices with your Facebook account
The company announced new mechanisms that enable developers to build programs that can control everything from the garage door system watering plants. It is the entrance of Facebook’s call Internet of Things.
“We want to be there when you begin to experiment with these things,” he told the audience the CEO and co-founder Ilya Parse Sukhar.
It is not yet clear how Facebook will integrate with the IoT devices.
7. Developers will have the stats of your applications
These free charts allow them to know who is interacting with their applications, their country of origin, among other data, regardless of the device used.
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