“These connections aren’t just happening on Facebook, they’re happening all over the Web, and today with the Open Graph we’re bringing all these things together,” Zuckerberg said.

This is the 3rd year for F8 and things could have not went better.  Every year, Zuck showcases FB’s most recent cool things.  This year’s F8 breaks down to 3 simple objectives:

• Open Graph
• Instantly Social
• Simple Platform

OPEN GRAPH PROTOCOL

Open graph is a unique way for the developers to build this new society.  Think of what twitter did for the semantic web, but more sweet!

Facebook’s Bret Taylor also just announced the Open Graph protocol, a new way of structuring data on the web with semantic markup. For example, represents the movie “The Godfather”. When that object is marked up on a website, Liking it will place it in the right place on the user’s profile, and mousing over it in the feed will show a hovercard that links to the source object off Facebook.com – for example, IMDB.

In addition, publishers who use the Open Graph markup will be able to publish updates to users after they Like the object on their site. More details on that shortly.

Graph API

Finally, with the Graph API, developers will able to get information on any object in the Facebook graph. With the Open Graph, each object has a unique ID. You can download the JSON representation of any object in the graph simply by going to:

http://graph.facebook.com/[ObjectName]/[ObjectType]

where ObjectName could be a user or Page ID (like PrinceBoucher or FollowThePrince), and ObjectType could be photos, videos, notes, etc.

This is going to be simple because of their initiative to use OAuth 2.0!  Now you ask, what is this?  Just another programming language that is more simple.  Let us compare it to English or Spanish in relation to Latin.

So Enslish is to  OAuth 2.0 as Latin is to PHP.  Does that help?

Instantly Social

Social Plugins are the name of the game.  Forming connections through META data will form new experiences during your engagement .  Imagine when you enter IMDB, Pandora, or Amazon and you are being referenced your network, in convergence with all the data on the website to best qualify what you might like.  Cool eh?  They basically took the Google Docs idea and made it more social.  Like really social.  Also, imagine or just go to Pandora and see the seamless connection to how you relate to certain music.  Pretty sweet!

Simple Platform

Another facelift to create more efficiency and productivity for the communications between networks and node’s.  People might be pissed, but don’t we all thank our parents for setting presence sometimes?

“We’ll serve 1 Billion Likes on the internet in the next 24 hours”

“The world can be a lot better and we are going to make it that way.”  - Mark Zuckerberg