Daily Debrief: Facebook's olive branch to developers. Will it work? Video

Video description: Maybe they'll look back and declare it one of the most important declarations in Facebook's history. Rafe Needleman and Charles Cooper discuss the import of a very busy day of announcements from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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