When you’re the CTO for one of the world’s largest websites, you get to gather quite a lot of insight about what it takes to make things run smoothly, where the trends of the Internet are headed and what comes next.FacebookCTO Bret Taylor is just the one to answer these questions and he has some information about where Facebook is headed next. Speaking toThe BBC, Taylor states that the biggest challenge that Facebook faces from technology is in offering its product to a wide variety of devices....

Facebook is rapidy approaching 700 million users worldwide, despite reports that the social network is beginning to lose members in the US and the UK. Taking a look at how social networks are used around the world,Vincenzo Consenzacreated an informative series of images collating statistics on the popularity of services including Facebook, Orkut, Hyves and Zing on different continents over the past couple of years and overlaying it on a world map....

For those out of the loop, Facebook just introduced theTimelineat its recentF8 Conference. Besides the obvious changes in aesthetics thanks to theSofa acquisition, Timeline alters everything from the purpose of the Facebook profile, to the way Facebook is pushing users to rethink their own privacy. TechCrunch recently published an article aboutWhy The Timeline Changes Nothing. Well, they’re wrong. The timeline changes everything. What’s Changed: Enter Timeline: Your Facebook profile is now a landing page, quickly displaying what’s important in a way that compromisesAbout....

According toAlexastatistics, Facebook is the number one or number two most visited site in most African countries. The social networking site has been witnessing high growth rates on the continent and so it is not surprising thatAfrica is Facebook’s fastest growing continentaccording to Facebook analytics site, Social Bakers. (Asia comes a close second). In many parts of the continent,user numbers have doubledin the last seven months. Egypt is currently Africa’s leading country by number of Facebook users with about 6....

For me, the biggest news from Facebook’s f8 event today isn’tsocial music, thepartnershipsor eventhe new Timeline feature– it’s thelivestream. This was no live feed of a CEO-fronted press conference as many tech companies have done before, this was a show with TV-level production values. Before the event even started, a team of bubbly presenters were building up the buzz by reading out comments from viewers. Then comedian Andy Samberg took to the stage offering a spoof Zuckerberg warm-up, before Zuck himself – far more the showman than he has been in the past – gave us a Steve Jobs-esque runthrough of all that was new....