Judy Viitanen spent several hours watching the live feed on the keynote FB f8 Conference. Her verdict: awesome! lol 
PRimage rate Bret Taylor, Facebook CTO as the star of the show Conference – and he gave a great presentation! He explained to the assembled crowd of developers how this will actually work. It’s going to take some time for Timelines to roll out to Facebook’s huge user base, he said.
“Adding an app to your timeline is a real-time experience,” Taylor said. When a user discovers an app, either through a friend’s timeline or through a brand’s Facebook page, they just click on a button that says “add to Timeline.” It’s not clear whether users will be given any kind of warning as to what types of information the app will be able to access from your Facebook account, which is what happens now when you go to install an app on your Facebook profile.
Six different layout styles will be available to developers for choosing how they want to present the social content within their app, and the best apps will be the ones that were designed for sharing from the first line of code, Taylor said.
App discovery is always a huge problem in this modern app world, and Facebook has come up with an artificial intelligence engine called Graph Rank that helps order apps and app activity. App developers will be able to see which parts of their app are resonating with users and which parts are duds, allowing developers to fine-tune their apps based on that feedback.
Facebook’s Open Graph, allows developers to build social applications on top of Facebook’s technology. The “lifestyle apps” let Facebook users share activity around exercise, cooking, travel, and the like.
Apps in Timelines: Facebook has changed the way that third-party apps display content in your timeline, rather than forcing the user to create boxes to display their favorite apps, Zuckerberg said.
Timeline will be available as a beta for developers as of the end of this keynote, and it will start rolling out to everybody over the next few weeks. The new apps described above will arrive along with Timeline, so it sounds like this will be a gradual process. Certain news-reader and music apps will launch right away.
Zuckerberg finished off talking about Intel (and Moore’s Law), and how that concept of pushing the envelope and finding out what’s possible set the direction for the technology industry. Facebook sees itself as a bridge between the technology industry and social issues, he said, and it will allow the company a unique viewpoint into what’s coming down the road.
