Yesterday in San Francisco Facebook launched Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform allows you to add and use popular applications and websties like Twitter, FeedBurner, Veoh, and Box.net. In total there are about 70 new applications available at this time. Some of them are outlined below.
Twitter: Update you Twitter status from within Facebook and view your friends status updates. Your updates appear in your Facebook mini-feed and also on Twitter.
Veoh: Instantly share your favourite Veoh videos with your friends.
Red Bull Roshambull: Play Rock Paper Scissors with your friends and keep track of your wins and loses.
Another update that Facebook launched was Facebook Video. You can now upload videos with a max length of 10 minutes and tag your friends who are in the video, much likee you do with pictures. However, video doesn’t appear to be available for use yet, but it likely will be within the next week or so.
Another very quiet update is the ability to change the layout of your profile page. You can now rearrange most of the elements (such as pictures, groups, and your wall) to where ever on your page you want them.
At the event, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg gave a presentation outlining some stats about Facebook, such as Canada having 2.5 million users, being the second largest (after the U.S.), it is the 6th most visited site in the U.S., and about 100,000 people sign up every day.
You can find out more about the new features and more stats at these sites:
Mashable article on Facebook Platform
Mashable article on Facebook Video
Mashable article on the Facebook event
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