When we launched Facebook Video at the end of May, one of my favorite features was being able to record a video of myself within a message and then send it to my friends. Soon the Video team realized that we also sent friends messages in the form of Wall posts, so we started working on video attachments for the Wall too.
At the same time, we noticed other platform applications building their own walls - ways to leave various sorts of messages behind. We realized it made sense not just to add videos to Wall posts, but to make the Wall a more central place that any platform application could add content to. As a result, we have now launched an improved Wall.
So now, the Wall isn't a place where you only write to your friends - if you want to record a video on someone's Wall, you can do that. If you want to draw on their Wall or post a song to their Wall, you can do that too - as long as there's an application built for it. It's another way for developers to make applications fit into Facebook and another way for you to share your favorite applications with your friends.
Kevin, an engineer at Facebook, is recording karaoke videos on his friends' Walls.
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Fueling up...It's been awhile since our last Hackathon (the night of our now-epic f8 launch) and we were about due for another one. So last Tuesday night, we rallied the troops -- a lot of new faces! -- put down the guitar hero, cranked up the Daft Punk, and coded into the wee hours of the morning.
...brainstorming and coding. (Photos by Wayne.)