Dammit, Internet. You left me hanging once again.
The point is, Facebook is holding f8, its non-annual, whenever-it-feels-the-need developer conference, this year. Fun fact: Facebook hasn’t held an f8 since 2011, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the all-new profile redesign and media integrations.
The date is April 30, 2014; the location is San Francisco. Around 1,500 developers are expected to attend. Topics will include technical talks as well as hands-on labs. If you check out the f8 page on Facebook, you can sign up for your very own ticket.
And of course, there’s the big Zuckerberg keynote, which functions as a sort of State of the Union for the Facebook platform. If there’s any big product news, the f8 stage is likely going to be where we hear about it.
This time around, the shindig will include both the Facebook and Parse (a relatively recent acquisition) developer communities.
And of course, your humble VentureBeat correspondents will be on the scene to provide you with news of the latest changes to the platform as they’re announced from the f8 stage.
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