Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Announcement Next Week Will Be 'Something Awesome'

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is set to launch a new feature next week, possibly in the mobile or tablet arena, its CEO said.

Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week.

He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters.

There has been speculation in technology blogs in recent weeks about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple Inc's iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

Facebook's Seattle office has made a mark on the company's mobile efforts, playing a central role in the development of Facebook's unified mobile site, unveiled in March.

A Facebook spokesman declined to provide further details about Zuckerberg's comments.

Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network with more than 500 million users, is increasingly challenging established online companies like Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for consumers' time online and for advertising dollars. According to the company, people that use Facebook on mobile devices are twice as active on the service than users on PCs.

(Reporting by Bill Rigby and Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
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Comments

[rose ponce]

11:00 PM on 07/09/2011

if you are not online on facebook how can i know have video call can solve this prolem ty

[Lex Anton]

01:38 PM on 07/02/2011

Whats gonna happen when facebook isn't cool anymore and all these sites have fb stuff. That would be funny. It's so easy to log in and comment. Thats all I use it for. I think Suckerberg's new dog is lame.

[Hector YoHec Mota]

11:54 PM on 07/01/2011

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[CKN NY]

07:33 PM on 07/01/2011

Facebook is one social networking website I cant get into. I am active on LinkedIn and very active on twitter...having an account is actually on my too do list. I am so fascinated what Mark Z has accomplished with Facebook.

[chessie128]

06:46 PM on 07/01/2011

Facebook should be developing programs to keep people from planting viruses, and hacking and copying other people's accounts. Who cares about new apps for Apple's iPhone4 or iPad2??

[Clare53]

05:45 PM on 07/01/2011

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Kalev Lemus]

10:04 AM on 07/02/2011

Lol

[maatpublish]

04:56 PM on 07/01/2011

"Something awesome," as it relates to Facebook Corporate and Zuckerberg in particular, rarely if ever translates as being the same for Facebook's end users.

[revamk]

03:44 PM on 07/01/2011

Does it involve using an even more sneaky and novel method of selling my personal information to marketers?

[esolesek]

03:24 PM on 07/01/2011

Facebook is an invasive hassle, although millions seems willing to let it be their comm portal. One of these days when I'm far enough along, buy bye fbook.

[GEM-592]

02:57 PM on 07/01/2011

"Awesome" huh? How 2000's of you Marky.

[sandrita mason]

02:36 PM on 07/01/2011

All I want Facebook to do is restore my messages that it removed weeks ago. I can't get help from anyone at Facebook. I can only gripe on the 'help' site, along with the hordes of other facebook complainers.

[Al91206]

01:30 PM on 07/01/2011

"Something's going to happen .... something wonderful"

Facebook donates 50 BILLION to help create jobs and improve education throughout America.

[Adjuster]

04:01 PM on 07/01/2011

Thank you Hal

[PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS]

12:35 PM on 07/01/2011

Think I'm going back to Friendster.................................... :p

[Kalev Lemus]

10:05 AM on 07/02/2011

Lol

[wilray]

12:25 PM on 07/01/2011

Awesome to Mark may mean sucksass to us.

[leorangerie]

12:10 PM on 07/01/2011

Young, brilliant Mark better be careful about using the word 'awesome' when describing a Facebook toy function. Steve Jobs described the impending iPad as 'really something cool for people'. And it was a product that literally rocked the tech world. So tread lightly on 'awesome'...I think.