Facebook F8 App Appears To Leak Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT

A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook’s F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station.”
The alert seems to indicate that Facebook will reveal a version of its mobile app building suite Parse for “Internet Of Things” devices. It also appears to confirm my scoop from last week that Facebook will announce a Messenger platform at F8.

As for “The Teleportation Station”, that’s a bit of a mystery. One guess is that it’s related to Facebook’s vaguely named “Innovation Lab” it created to test mobile apps in simulation of different network conditions around the world.

Facebook previously said that all its major products would see announcements at F8, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, along with Parse and Messenger which the notification hints at. Judging by the notification’s text, it may have accidentally been sent early when it should have gone out mid-day tomorrow after the F8 keynote from 10am-11am PST when the major product announcements will be made.
We’ll have more analysis soon.