Facebook has sent out invites to f8, its developer conference where it tends to announce new features for the site.
The event will take place on Sept. 22 at the San Francisco Design Center.
On the developer blog, Facebook’s Carl Sjogreen described the event as “Facebook’s conference for developers, entrepreneurs, and innovators building a more social Web.”
Facebook said f8 will include product announcements, a discussion about building social apps with various engineers and entrepreneurs, and an open Q&A with Facebook’s engineering and product teams.
At the last f8, which took place in April 2010, Facebook debuted its open graph API, the “Like” button, and several social plugins. It built on the concept of connection with people in a massive graph, or Facebook Connect, which was debuted at the first f8.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who delivered a keynote at f8 2010, also announced a pair of policy changes. One allowed Web sites to condense permissions needed to access your personal data and another that allowed developers to store your information for longer than 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Facebook on Wednesday announced a major update to its security settings, unveiling a number of new features that give you more control over your privacy. Facebook now lets you change your privacy settings from your profile through a drop-down menu. It also gives you greater control over who sees each item you post on the site, similar to the method used by Google+ with it Circles feature. The update also adds the option to confirm or reject a tag and makes it easier for you to see your profile the way other users see it.
With the update, Facebook has ditched the Places feature and will now let you check in from anywhere, rather than just from on a mobile phone.
Despite the changes Facebook rolled out launched this week, it’s likely it will make some major announcements at f8.