Facebook To Launch "Something Awesome" Next Week

Facebook, the leading social networking website, is poised to launch an allegedly ground-breaking feature next week, according to Chief Executive and Founder Mark Zuckerberg. It is quite likely that the new feature could be related to mobiles or tablets.

Speaking to reporters, Zuckerberg said that the company has planned to "...launch something awesome" next week. Without divulging much information about what this feature would be, he added that the project had been developed at the company's 40-person Seattle office, which is the only major engineering centre outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters.

It was from this office that Facebook had developed its mobile site, which was launched in March. The expectation of a mobile or tablet related feature being announced next week is therefore not surprising. There have also been rumours that the company is going to develop a photo-sharing app for the iPad. Facebook has declined to comment further.