Facebook CTO Bret Taylor on Facebooks biggest technology problem:
"Probably the biggest technology problem we have is delivering Facebook to all the people who use it, in the places they want to use it. The past couple of years has seen a rise in really advanced mobile devices.
The most symbolic of that is the iPhone, but now with the Android operating system we're seeing a huge amount of innovation in the mobile space, and more and more people are interacting with Facebook as much on their mobile devices as on their PCs and laptops.
As a consequence of that, if you'd asked a few years ago what's the right development platform for Facebook, it would have been easy, we would have said we'll make a website delivered via HTML, and that would be acceptable to anyone who wants to use Facebook.
With all these mobile devices, there's a huge amount of platform diversity now. When we update the Facebook product we have to update about seven different versions. We have to update the website that runs on your PC, the iPhone app, the Android app, the Blackberry app, the mobile site and a number of other device-specific versions of Facebook.
It's becoming a real engineering challenge for us, as well as other technology companies.
Because of that, I think we're spending a lot of our time investing in HTML 5. It's the code name, if you will, for the next generation of web technology that's optimised for mobile devices, and optimised to feel more like native applications.
The end goal is that we'll be able to develop one version of Facebook for mobile devices, that runs on all different kinds of mobile phones. That's really where our focus is now."
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