Facebook is seen as a website for connecting people. Now the company also wants to make it easier for outside developers to build their apps and connect them with users, by providing back-end hosting tools.
On Thursday the social network held its first Parse Developer Day, a conference geared toward third-party app developers. Parse is a cloud-service company that provides a hosted back-end infrastructure to make it easier for developers to build their mobile apps. Facebook announced its acquisition of Parse in April.
Facebook already provides software tools to let outside developers plug into the social network's data with Facebook Platform. But that service is focused more on the distribution of apps, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a surprise appearance at the conference in San Francisco.
"We want to do more than that," he said. What Facebook is trying to do with Parse, he said, is to give developers new tools to build and grow their apps.
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