Facebook's F8 conference for external developers is expected to yield major announcements from the company regarding extended and new functionality for its application platform, likely in areas such as search, geolocation, payments and integration with other Web sites.

As usually happens every time Facebook introduces or modifies features in its social networking site, the announcements will likely draw close attention from end users, privacy watchdogs, competitors, entrepreneurs, advertisers and, of course, developers.

Among those eager to hear details of what's new with Facebook's application platform and APIs (application programming interfaces) are Glam Media engineers Justin Bolter and and Emmanuel Job. The conference opens today in San Francisco.

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