Facebook marketers and developers should check out two upcoming conferences happening in San Francisco over the next couple weeks.
The 3rd annual Widget Summit is happening Nov 3-4 at Hotel Nikito in San Francisco. Sandra Liu Huang from Facebook will be part of one panel discussion Facebook’s App Verification and Great Apps programs, as well as […]
Last week Inside Facebook reported with live notes from Mark Zuckerberg’s Q&A with Ryan Carson at FOWA in London. The video has now been posted below (click here to view if you can’t see it in your feed reader).
Mark discusses Facebook’s vision for Connect, payments, changes in user behavior over the years, and more. Check […]
Mark Zuckerberg spoke here at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London earlier today in his first visit to the city in 10 years. As is usual for these PR-controlled events, there were no startling revelations today, but there were a few interesting hints. Generally, the theme of “enabling people to share” ran through […]
With all the new changes to the Facebook layout, some previously simple actions such as deleting an application became just a bit more complicated.
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On your Facebook homepage go to the bottom left-hand corner of the page where it says “Applications.” When you click on it a list of all your applications will […]
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For Facebook application developers also building for other social platforms, Hi5 announced today that is has officially launched OpenSocial 0.8 on the Hi5 developer platform. This marks the first major launch of OpenSocial 0.8, which has been in the making for many months.
The most interesting part of 0.8 is the addition of a RESTful API, […]
This morning Venturebeat published a story about a new application being promoted by Facebook. According to Eldon, the application “invites people to pay tribute to those who have used Facebook to influence social change and contribute to a more open and connected world.” What appeared most controversial was that the application was launched […]
Appssavvy, a direct sales team for Facebook and other social media app developers, announced yesterday that it has closed a $3.1 million round of funding led by True Ventures. Jon Callaghan led the investment for True. Scott Kurnit, founder of About.com, also participated in the round.
Appssavvy has built its business to date by acting as […]
Facebook launched Microsoft Live Search integration on the public site today, showing off how users will be able to access Live Search within Facebook.
(Update: Facebook Web Search powered by Microsoft Live Search is now live again. Earlier, the push appeared to have only been temporary - Live Search integration was pulled down from the site […]
This afternoon Facebook launched the web search tool that’s powered by Microsoft Live. When you search for items within Facebook’s global search box at the top of the site, you receive the option to “Search the Web” if no results show up immediately for contacts in your contact list. This is a big […]
According to a new report out from Cloudmark, 20 to 40 percent of new profiles on Facebook could be fake. Neil Cook, the European head of technology services at Cloudmark stated “once set up with a portfolio of fake profiles, virus writers encourage users to click on links to malicious sites by including them […]
With the US presidential elections now only four weeks away, candidates are stepping up the usual mudslinging soundbites for replay on the evening news. While that type of back and forth has traditionally alienated many voters, Facebook is doing its best to encourage civic participation by launching a voter registration campaign and enabling candidates to […]
Yesterday I wrote about how brands can succeed on Facebook. At the time I suggested that success for me personally is having an application within the leaderboard. Commenters immediately suggested that this position was a flawed one and after thinking about it further, I agree. The first step in launching a social media campaign or […]
As a sign of Facebook’s growing international reach, the Facebook crowd-sourced translation tool released earlier this year is now being pushed to an increasing number of users as they log into Facebook. Many people logging in will see the one-time message like this one below:
The tool allows users to translate Facebook and many Facebook applications […]
For users and app developers, the migration from the old to the new Facebook is now complete.
The “www.new.facebook.com” domain is a thing of the past, though not without a hiccup - Facebook temporarily disabled apps.new.facebook.com a few times this weekend without notifying developers ahead of time, causing many app developers to experience drops in traffic. […]
This evening Facebook stopped redirecting users to the URL www.new.facebook.com and has begun redirecting all users to the default www.facebook.com. The result is that the old design appears to be no longer accessible. The change in URLs has resulted in some applications breaking over the past 24 hours but most of those issues […]