Understanding Facebook’s f8 Announcements

Today at its f8 developer conference, Facebook made a number of major announcements that should forever cement its reputation as a major technology company, not just the world’s largest social networking website.

My original plan was to go through each of Facebook’s developments point by point and analyze what effect they may have on the greater eco-system of the web, until I saw that Jeremiah Owyang had already done so through one of his amazing matrixes. Given how well Jeremiah’s matrix explains Facebook’s updates, I wanted to share it here for you to enjoy.

As the privacy and reputation implications of Facebook’s updates become more apparent, we will go into more detailed analysis. In the meantime, there’s plenty of interesting information to chew on from Jeremiah’s analysis. The “social bar” in particular is something that merits considerable attention.