Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at his company’s F8 developer conference to unveil the social network’s most drastic interface overhaul since 2008. The new features will be rolling out to users in the coming weeks, but here’s a quick preview of what’s in store.
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Facebook’s f8 conference started off on a light note, with Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg doing his best Mark Zuckerberg impression, but the conference quickly got down to serious business with some big changes for the world’s biggest social network.
With a huge smile on his face, Zuckerberg showed off a new kind of Facebook …
At today’s Facebook f8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce the biggest overhaul to the social network we’ve seen since 2008: “Timeline,” a new kind of profile.
Zuckerberg introduced the new Facebook feature as “all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.” Previously your old information …
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Join us here at 1pm ET for live coverage of Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at F8, Facebook’s developer conference. We’ll be at the San Francisco Design Concourse and will blog the news as it happens.
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Today at 1pm Eastern, Facebook will be making a big announcement at its “f8” developer conference. We’ll be covering the event and will relay the official news after all the dust has settled.
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But Napster changed …
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