June 2012
To
help you improve monetization in your game, we are launching an API
that gives you access to the user's preferred currency and the
conversion rate to Credits. This lets you show prices in the user's
preferred currency in your in-game stores.
Friday at 12:20am
Recap of the week's blog posts,
adding location and multiple photos to Open Graph actions,
new summary count fields in event FQL table,
upcoming breaking changes,
Javascript SDK cleanup,
check your privacy policy, and
weekly stats
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 6:30am
Today
we are launching the Open Graph built-in follow action. The follow
action makes it easier for people to keep tabs on the stories people
tell from within your app in their News Feed, Timeline and through the
notifications channel.
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 3:15am
Many
times I get asked by developers, *"should I build for Facebook or
mobile?"*, and the answer is, *'both'*. It's not a question of one or
the other. Mobile apps, just like apps on Facebook.com, can benefit from
an audience of 900 million users, 500 million of whom are active
Facebook mobile users.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 10:30pm
Announcement about Meetup sponsorship and community page
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 2:02am
Weekly Post
- Recap of recent posts
- Developer Updates
- Breaking changes reminder
- Bugs Activity
- Stackoverflow Activity
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 2:30am
The
new Open Graph built-in like action makes it easier for people to share
content from your app. While the Like button is a great way to let
friends share content from the web back to Facebook, the like action
enables you to build your own like buttons for your mobile or web app
and drive distribution across Facebook.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 11:55pm
We’re announcing two updates to our payments product: subscriptions and local currency pricing.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 2:00am
We're
very excited about the Facebook integration in iOS 6 that Apple
announced last week at WWDC 2012. We're working on a major update to the
Facebook SDK for iOS that will launch in the coming weeks. It includes
significant new features and enhancements that make it easier to add
Facebook to your iOS apps, along with support for the Facebook
integration in iOS 6. Stay tuned!
Monday, June 18, 2012 at 9:30pm
King.com's
puzzle game, Candy Crush Saga, is growing quickly on Facebook and the
engaging game play and integration of Facebook features keeps bringing
people back. The game grew 100% in May and has driven 800 million game
plays to date. Find out what the game does well.
Friday, June 15, 2012 at 9:30pm
Weekly Roundup
- last week's articles
- Adding locations to OG actions
- Identifying a user's device
- App Center available on iPad
- Bug stats
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 5:30am
Starting
today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such
as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for
WordPress plugin.
The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open
source partners, and makes it simple for anyone to make their WordPress
site more social – no coding required. The plugin will also work on
mobile and support internationalization.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 9:30pm
Blog post announcement for Toronto event 6/16
Friday, June 8, 2012 at 7:26am
Today we’re launching the App Center, the place for people to find great social apps on the web and mobile.
Friday, June 8, 2012 at 5:30am
Breaking changes, September migrations
Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 2:30am
At
Mobile World Congress this year we announced an improved mobile
payments flow for mobile web apps. Today we are starting to roll it out.
This low friction (two steps) carrier billing is now available on the
majority of carriers in the US and the UK and will be rolled out to
additional operators worldwide.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 9:15pm
The
Games Round-up covers the recently released product features and best
practices that game developers should know about. Read this round-up to
learn about feed gaming, App Center and new Insights as well as best
practices for creating custom friend selectors for requests and for
making your game social.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 1:30am
Over
the past few months, shopping and fashion has become one of the
faster-growing categories of timeline apps. Companies in this space are
attracting a new type of user – shopaholics and fashionistas. These
social apps are developing a global presence, securing funding and
building across web and mobile, and they’re seeing new traffic to their
websites and increased mobile installs through their use of Open Graph.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 10:30pm
May 2012
Today's developer spotlight is on NBC's The Voice's web and mobile app.
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 1:30am
Testing FQL in the Graph API Explorer, Updated Open Graph Publishing Guidelines, and stats updates
Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 4:30am
We’re
launching the ability for people to try games directly in news feed.
Feed gaming enables developers to share a playable version of their game
within news feed and timeline stories, reaching new users through some
of our main distribution channels.
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:30pm
Bingo
Bash from BitRhymes is a multi-player, synchronous bingo game for web
and iPad. Bingo Bash drives engagement among users with their Facebook
integrations and has seen significant results.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:30pm
Recap of last week's blog posts. Upcoming breaking changes. Bugs and Stackoverflow activity from the last week.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 2:00am
In
Insights, we have now added the ability to monitor the number of unique
people seeing and accepting your authorization dialog. You can also
track the number of unique users publishing stories through Open Graph,
viewing those stories, and clicking on those stories. These updates
provide more insight into user behavior to help you build a more
effective Auth Dialog and better Open Graph integration for your app.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 1:30am
The
Facebook team will be at Over The Air 2012 on 1st & 2nd of June -
in Bletchley Park, UK. Join us to hack on Mobile and Open Graph. The
team that builds the best mobile Open Graph app in 24 hours will win
Samsung Galaxy SII phones for each team member. And bragging rights.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 2:30pm
Soon,
with the App Center, it will be easier than ever to drive mobile app
installs and reach the over 500 million people using Facebook on mobile
devices.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 3:30am
Today's developer spotlight is on blogging web and mobile app, Tumblr.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 10:30pm
recap,
js sdk update,
bug stats.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 5:30am
This
blog post highlights some of the most important things to consider when
you’re creating your app detail page for the App Center.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 1:30am
We’re
introducing two new features in
[Insights](https://www.facebook.com/insights/): App Ratings and
Negative Feedback. They both help you monitor positive and negative
user signals.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 12:30am
The preview tool that shows the action estimate and matching stories for action specs.
Friday, May 11, 2012 at 3:30am
Today's developer spotlight is on workout tracking app, Endomondo.
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:30pm
Recap of this week's launches:
App Center
Action Links for Timeline Apps
Developer Spotlight on Kobo
How-To Improve Experience for Returning Users
Bug and StackOverflow Stats for the week
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 6:15am
Today,
we’re announcing App Center, a new place for people to find social
apps. App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps
and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 2:00am
Using
FB.getLoginStatus is an easy way to immediately make your site more
engaging and provide a better experience for returning users.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 10:30pm
Today's developer spotlight is on eReading device and mobile app, Kobo.
Friday, May 4, 2012 at 2:30am
Starting
today, there’s a new way for people to interact with your timeline app
directly from Facebook: action links. These customizable links provide
another way for people to do something within your app when your Open
Graph stories appear in news feed, timeline, or ticker.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 1:30am
New breaking changes for August, Breaking changes effective today and more.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 12:00am
Facebook
Platform continues to help mobile apps and games grow. Traffic sent to
developers more than tripled and number of visitors more than doubled.
Seven of the top ten grossing iOS apps and six of the top ten grossing
Android apps are integrated with Facebook. Facebook Platform sent more
than 160 million visitors last month to mobile apps and games. These
mobile visitors were responsible for more than 1.1B visits to mobile
apps last month.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 2:30am
April 2012
Today's developer spotlight is on music streaming web and mobile app, Deezer.
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 12:30pm
This
post walks through the best practices you can use to increase social
engagement for your Android and iOS app via invites and requests.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 10:29pm
Developers are growing their timeline apps internationally, across web and mobile.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 8:30pm
Recap
of this week's blog posts, Facebook Offers Now Accessible via the API,
Real-time Insights, and next week's breaking changes.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:00am
We are combining publishing permissions so that apps only have to ask users once to publish on their behalf.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 3:30am
With the latest update to Facebook for Android, social app discovery for native apps are available on both Android and iOS.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 1:30am
Diamond
Dash has seen rapid growth since launching a Facebook-integrated iOS
game. Using Single Sign On, requests and Open Graph, Wooga was able to
drive great traffic from Facebook Platform.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 9:30pm
Today we're announcing the new Preferred Marketing Developer program.
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 12:30am
Today's developer spotlight is on social music web and mobile app, iHeartRadio.
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 10:30pm
In
the past two months we've visited some of the world's most exciting
mobile development hubs, including New York, Boston, London, Stockholm,
Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seouland Tokyo.
Over the course of nine mobile Hacks,we've had over 2,000 attendees, 450
hours of code writing, 200 mobile projects and many cool hack projects.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 8:30pm
Blog post 4/11, photo_src, default page tab image, best practices, bug stats
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:00am
Today's developer spotlight is on e-commerce site, Fab.com.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 11:00pm
New App Insights, Migration now available for upcoming breaking changes
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 11:00am
Early results and best practices for video apps and Open Graph.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 11:30pm
March 2012
Today's developer spotlight is on TripAdvisor's social travel app, Cities I've Visited.
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 2:30am
Update
on new launches - this week we launched New Payer Promotions and
spotlighted Foodspotting, upcoming breaking changes on April 1, 2012,
update about breaking change policy and an update on bugs and Stack
Overflow activity for the past week
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 10:00pm
New
Payer Promotions are Facebook Sponsored offers that encourage game
players to make a first-time purchase using their credit card or PayPal
account. Starting today, developers can place New Payer Promotion offers
inside their games by using a new DealSpot unit that is dedicated to
this promotion.
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:05am
Today's developer spotlight is on visual food guide, Foodspotting.
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 2:30am
Update
on Open Graph submissions, upcoming breaking changes on April 1, 2012,
and an update on bugs and Stack Overflow activity for the past week
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9:45pm
Earlier
this month, the Facebook games team hosted a Developer Day at GDC in
San Francisco, where we connected with about 250 game developers
building games for desktop, console and mobile. For those who could not
join us, we've provided a rundown of the day, as well as links to
videos and additional code samples.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 8:30pm
Check out the new Mobile Referrals Insights dashboard to help you understand the traffic your app receives from mobile sources.
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11:45pm
We
are highlighting timeline apps that have great users experiences and
give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform. Today's
developer spotlight is on Izlesene.
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11:30pm
Weekly
developer blog update : Updates to payments daily detailed reporting,
Open Graph Action Approval Process and Platform Showcase, and Pages.
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 6:45am
Highlights of New Page APIs with examples and links to developer docs.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 7:45pm
We
are highlighting timeline apps that have great users experiences and
give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform. Today's
developer spotlight is on Pose.
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 1:30am
Partnered
with Pluralsight to provide an online course for developers. We also
updated Facebook Platform Policy: (1) removed policy which prohibited
Page Apps from hosting media that played automatically without a user's
interaction, (2) revised the Mobile Web App policy to prohibit mobile
web apps running within a Facebook iOS app may only use iOS approved
payment methods and may not reference, use, or otherwise encourage use
of Facebook Credtis or other non-iOS payment methods, (3) Developers
must be sure to comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
Introduced a European Incentive Program. Removed App Profile Pages.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 11:30am
Today
we’re introducing several improvements to the Facebook Platform that
allow people to do all of the things they can do in a status update –
add friends, location, photos and video – directly from the apps they’re
using.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 11:30pm
Updated
the Dev Tool to have more up-front checks to prevent incomplete Open
Graph submissions. Made clear that action properties are optional and
require specific repro steps.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 9:00am
A
classic game that has been played by diverse audiences over the years,
arcade games such as Bubble Witch Saga, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, and Diamond
Dash have been picking up momentum on Facebook Platform lately. Whether
on mobile or desktop, these short-session games use a variety of tactics
to keep people coming back week after week and to encourage friendly
competition.
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:30pm
As
we continue to drive greater discovery and re-engagement for games on
Facebook, today we are announcing scores and achievements stories in the
news feed and support for weekly tournaments with our Graph API for
scores.
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
The
enhanced auth dialog will be rolled out more broadly starting on March
9th 2012 with updated button text, and some functionality of the
publish_stream permission will be available as a part of the
publish_action permission.
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 4:45am
We
are highlighting timeline apps that have great users experiences and
give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform. Today's
developer spotlight is on The Guardian.
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 6:30pm
Join us for the AT&T and Facebook Mobile App Hackathon in Palo Alto in May.
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 1:30am
The
Facebook Developer Day is on Monday March, 5th at the Game Developer
Conference in San Francisco. Don't forget to register for an
"All-Access" or "Summit & Tutorials" pass to GDC San Francisco to
secure your spot!
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 1:00am
February 2012
This
week we spotlighted Goodread's use of the Open Graph, announced our
commitment to to providing distribution across all platforms, provided
some new Page APIs, and completed 90% of the Open Graph Submissions.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 4:35am
Facebook
and partners announce initiative to help mobile web developers
distribute, monetize and battle mobile browser technology fragmentation.
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 5:15pm
Facebook
Mobile Platform has been gaining momentum rapidly. More than 60 million
monthly visitors are sent to apps and games from Facebook Mobile every
month. Many mobile apps have seen 3x to 20x growth using the platform.
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 6:30pm
We
are highlighting timeline apps that have great users experiences and
give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform. Today's
developer spotlight is on Goodreads.
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 12:30pm
As
of today, over 90% of the thousands of Open Graph submissions we have
received since f8 have been fully reviewed and responded to. The
remainder is on track to be completed within the next few weeks.
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 5:00am
This
week, we spotlighted Pinterest's use of the open graph, gave some tips
on improving app distribution on iOS, and announced that the Mobile Hack
Roadshow is coming to Asia.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 8:12am
Facebook Mobile Hacks are coming to Asia: Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo. Sign up now!
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:15am
Facebook
has introduced controls that will allow you to optimize the user
experience when traffic is sent from the Facebook iOS app to your app
(native or web app). This post talks about how you can set up these
controls. We also show you how you can implement deep linking to ensure
users end up at the appropriate content in your app when clicking on
stories.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 10:31pm
We
are beginning to highlight timeline apps that have great users
experiences and give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform.
Today's developer spotlight is on Pinterest.
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 1:30am
This
week, we posted few updates for developers using Payments on Facebook
Platform. Additionally, we invited developers to Facebook Mobile
Platform Global Hacks Roadshow - Europe.
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 5:01pm
Millions of people are using timeline apps on Facebook to experience and share what love with their friends.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:30pm
Facebook
Mobile Hack Series is going international. Announcing the first set of
locations in Europe, including London, Stockholm and Tel Aviv.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 8:15pm
This
week we posted blogs on Creating Featured Stories with Action Specs and
Developer Blog Subscriptions. Additionally, we invited developers to
come talk to us at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco in
March
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 6:15am
We
have a few updates for developers using Payments on Facebook Platform,
including updates to the Pay Dialog, payout reports as well as new payer
promotion.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 4:35am
Developer Blog Email Subscriptions update
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 7:15am
We're
excited to announce Facebook Developer Day at Game Developer Conference
in San Francisco on Monday, March 5th. Conference attendees are
invited to join the Facebook Platform team for interactive discussions
throughout the day on best practices and pro-tips for building social
games.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:00am
We
are announcing a new way of creating Sponsored Stories on the Ads API
by using [action
specs](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/start-action-specs/).
These changes make the Ads API more flexible and will make it easier
for developers to adapt to new story types as we launch them. We will be
deprecating the old sponsored stories types as of May 1.
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 2:31pm
Added
the ability to set the password on test users, added the ability to
post past activity to the correct point on Timeline. Breaking changes of
group FQL table changes, required use of STARTTLS for XMPP connections
and insights updates.
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 6:30am
Many
developers have asked for some tips on how to smoothly migrate their
App Profile Page. Below are some common issues, questions, and pro-tips
for how to handle.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 5:30am
January 2012
Optimizing your facebook apps by subscribing to data changes using the Real-time Updates API
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 12:45am
Today
we are announcing new ways to drive greater discovery and engagement
with games on Facebook, including games stories in News Feed and a games
Timeline unit. We are also testing the addition of a prominent link to
app requests on the homepage, a games-only activity feed and changes to
the live ticker.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 6:15am
For
iOS and Android App Developers, Single-Sign-On (SSO) provides a quick
way for users to Register, Login, and enable social features in your
mobile app. This post provides an update on using SSO in your app, and 4
best practices to leverage when implementing it.
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:15am
Subscribe to and subscriber graph api;
Insights metric deprecations;
Throwing exception for invalid filter key;
Upcoming breaking changes;
Bug Activities, fixes, Stackoverflow.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6:50am
How-To in implementing hideFlashCallback effectively for Flash Apps that use wmode=window
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:00am
Improved
Auth Dialog, 60 launched Open Graph apps, Writing Questions via Graph
API, Poligy Training videos, Email subscriptions, Search typeahead,
Upcoming breaking changes, Bug Activity, Stack Overflow Activity
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 3:30am
With
Timeline and Open Graph, people can tell their stories through the apps
they use. Starting today, developers can build apps that let people
add anything they love to their Timelines - whether it is eating,
traveling, shopping, running or taking pictures. Get started now!
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 5:30am
We’re making the improved Auth Dialog available and announcing the migration plan for developers.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 11:30pm
Platform
Updates for 01/11/2012, including improved comments box for mobile,
filter support for the Graph API, infinite scrolling in the Games Dash,
Breaking Change announcement for User Support Email and reminders for
Requests 2.0, removing canvas_name, and remove app profile pages.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 5:45am
Additional
tickets available for Facebook Mobile Hack in New York and Boston, on
18th and 20th of January respectively. Boston event is free for
students. Register now, before tickets run out.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:00am
HTTP ETags in Graph API allows for more efficient apps.
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:40pm
Today
we’re launching in-app currency offers, which lets developers award
users with their own in-app currency (e.g., Fred Currency in Fred's
game) upon completing an offer.
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 1:30am
Platform
Updates for 2011/01/04, including app stories show in app tab, improved
Web Site Insights and a reminder on breaking changes for Requests 2.0
Efficient and FB.Canvas.getPageInfo.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:00am
December 2011
Facebook Platform supports the following SDKs: JavaScript, PHP, iOS, and Android. All other SDKs have are deprecated.
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 5:30am
Key highlights of Facebook Platform (new features, new tools, etc.) in 2011.
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 10:30pm
The
weekly update of platform changes for the week of December 21 - 28
including a reminder about upcoming deprecations for January 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 1:30am
After
successful Mobile Hack in Palo Alto, we are bringing the event to New
York and Boston. First, in New York City on the 18th of January. Then in
Boston on the 20th of January. Joins us to learn everything you need to
know about Facebook Platform for Mobile, and get a chance work on your
projects with Facebook engineers.
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 6:00am
We’ve
recently made updates to the games categories as well as Bookmarks and
Apps and Games Dashboard to optimize the platform for game developers.
In addition we are testing new feed stories on mobile, to improve app
engagement. Finally also launching a games tutorial to provide best
practices for building games on Facebook.
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:00am
The
weekly update of platform changes for the week of December 13 - 20.
Highlights the deprecation of the REST API and upcoming deprecations for
January 2012.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 7:45am
Today,
we are launching the last two remaining APIs that we intend to port to
the Graph API. With this we are officially deprecating the REST API.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:00am
The
weekly update of platform changes for the week of December 7 - 13.
Announces the discontinuation of the majority of the Dashboard APIs and
upcoming deprecations for January 2012.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 3:09am
If you are using the new JS SDK, please upgrade your apps to support OAuth 2.0.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5:30am
Last
week we hosted our first Facebook games Hack, at the Facebook HQ in
Palo Alto. Check out this post to see the videos from the sessions as
well as the winners of the Hack!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5:15am
A guide on techniques and tools for debugging open graph apps.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 4:00am
Today,
we are announcing the removal of all App Profile Pages on February 1st,
2012. Existing apps can migrate the Likes and the Vanity URL from their
App Profile Page to a Facebook Page. New apps can create a new Facebook
Page. Related APIs will be deprecated and no longer supported on March
1, 2012. Page Tab apps can use the Add to Page dialog.
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 5:30am
Subscribe from anywhere with the Subscribe button.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:30pm
Upload videos to events via Graph API; Developer News Page; Reminder on upcoming deprecations on 1/1/12;
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7:00am
Today,
we are bringing Facebook Platform on Mobile to Android. Users can
discover and engage in your mobile web apps directly in the newly
released Facebook for Android 1.8 via Requests, Bookmarks, News Feed,
Search, Authenticated Referrals, and Facebook Credits.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 6:30am
Last
week we announced the Games Hack on Thursday, December 8. Already,
registrations are filling up. Register now to reserve your spot.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:30pm
Internationalizing Open Graph Apps
Friday, December 2, 2011 at 8:30pm
November 2011
Search
typeahead traffic now goes directly to Apps. The Change Log will only
exist in the weekly update. Please attend the Social Games Hack on 12/8.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:30pm
Early results and best practices for social news apps.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:53pm
Social
Games Hack, Breaking change for size of photos, Secure Open Graph
Videos, Updates to Canvas layout and improving Dev App requests.
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 4:15am
Register now for our Social Games Hack on December 8th at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 3:33am
Summary added to notifications, bug and stack overflow updates.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 5:30am
This
week we are announcing several updates to Facebook Credits, including a
breaking change for the Credits callback, new payment methods, a new
policy, updated documentation as well as a reminder to add your company
information for payouts.
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 6:15am
Please test your apps against beta tier.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 8:45am
Our
Friday Rollup of the latest changes in Facebook Platform, including App
Reviews and Discussions, Batch API Exception Format Migration, Getting
Page Questions via the Graph API and Open Graph Action
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 5:50am
Announcing the Fall Submission Round for the PDC Program
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:13am
A summary of early results from music partners that have implemented the Open Graph.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 11:01pm
Recent
activity stories available via stream FQL table and Graph API; High
Scores stores shown for Games; Location available for posts; Upgrading
old Comments Box users.
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 4:15am
Details
about the migration steps from the old messaging APIs. Covers the FQL
and Graph APIs that are effected and possible issues that may arise.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:22am
October 2011
Introducing the Questions Graph endpoint. Various bug fixes.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 12:54am
Additional tickets now available for the Open Graph Roadshow in Seattle and Austin.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 4:00am
Mobile Hack event now has additional spots available. Sign up today.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 5:30am
Announcing
Graph API to check if an app is installed on a Page tab; Expanding
Facebook Credits to over 50 countries and 80 payment methods; Announcing
app specific privacy FQL table; Open Graph guide for building private
mode and best practices for sharing controls.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 6:18am
Examples of in-app privacy controls and methods for allowing users to modify historical actions inside an app.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 1:30am
Graph
API for issuing FQL queries, adding namespace property to application
endpoint in Graph API, detecting visibility of Flash objects in Canvas
apps functionality not working.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 6:35am
At
f8, we announced a redesigned Auth Dialog and a new authentication flow
to give developers more control over people’s first experience with
their apps. Today, we’re making these new tools available to all
developers.
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:30pm
Join the Facebook Platform team as we travel through the United States to tell developers about the Open Graph and Timeline.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 3:30am
This how-to document will help developers check a user's permissions and prompt that user for any missing permissions.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 1:30am
Today,
we are extending Facebook Platform on mobile, bringing all the social
channels that have helped apps and games reach hundreds of millions of
users on the Web to mobile apps and websites. You can now easily reach
the 350 million people who use Facebook every month on a mobile device,
including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and our mobile web site.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 1:30am
Getting
and Setting App Restrictions using the Graph API; 90-day migration due
February 1, 2012: Use game:points instead of og:points; f8 comes to
Asia, Europe, and more US locations
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:49am
Introducing new Page Insights and "People Talking About This"
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:30am
Next steps towards a modern Platform: OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 6:00am
September 2011
f8 Recap; Scraping OG Objects; Ticker Flyouts; Multiple Domains in the Dev App; Resources from "Making Fast Social Apps"
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 6:30am
Today
we're announcing several new features to Requests 2.0 to make the
process of sending and receiving requests even more efficient for users
and developers.
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 6:00am
Today
we're updating our Developer Roadmap with the FBML deprecation
schedule. FBML will no longer be supported as of January 1, 2012. FBML
apps will no longer work on Facebook as of June 1, 2012. We strongly
recommend all developers and Page Admins to migrate from FBML by January
1, 2012.
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 5:30am
To
help Canvas and Page Tab App developers more easily update their secure
URLs, we have pushed changes to admin.setAppProperties to set your
secure_callback_url and secure_page_tab_url.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:45pm
f8
recap, Renaming setAutoResize to setAutoGrow, Getting mutual friends in
the Graph API, More fields available for the Application object in the
Graph API, Reminder: Breaking Changes coming on Oct 1st, How apps are
indexed in search
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 4:30am
At
Facebook's core is the social graph; people and the connections they
have to everything they care about. Historically, Facebook has managed
this graph and has expanded it over time as we launch new products
(photos, places, etc.). In 2010, we extended the social graph, via the
Open Graph protocol, to include websites and pages that people liked
throughout the web. We are now extending the Open Graph to include other
actions and objects created by apps and enabling these apps to
integrate deeply into the Facebook experience. This “How-To” video walks
you through our tutorial showing you step-by-step how to build an Open
Graph app that allows users to publish stories about cooking recipes.
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 10:00pm
We
are hosting our fourth f8 conference today in San Francisco, where
we’re introducing the the next evolution of Facebook Platform and the
Open Graph. The Open Graph is the most significant update to Platform
since it launched in 2007, expanding the capabilities and opportunities
for social apps, from music to TV to news to lifestyle apps such as
cooking, fitness, and travel.
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12:00am
With
just 2 days until f8, we are in the final stages of preparation!
Providing updated information on the Transforming Industries track, our
mobile app to stay sync'ed at f8 and all the ways to join the f8
conversation.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 10:30pm
New
bug tool, ability to deploy test apps directly from the Dev App with
Heroku, a redesign of Platform Status page, update to special incentives
for Facebook Credits, new /me/events endpoint for Graph API, OAuth 2.0
migration reminder.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:29am
How-To for managing events using the Graph API.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 6:00am
Today we are launching a new bug tool to replace Bugzilla.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 3:30am
We
continue to make it even easier to get started building apps on
Facebook Platform. We know that one of the most difficult things to
getting started is setting up a place to host your app. As a result, we
are partnering with the top cloud service providers to make it simpler
for you to have your first app up and running in a few clicks -- all
from within the Dev App. Today, we are happy to announce our partnership
with Heroku as the first of these providers to be integrated into the
Dev App. With Heroku, you can now start building from a sample app in
your choice of languages, including PHP, Ruby, Node.js and Python.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 11:30pm
Today
we are launching a redesign of Platform Status to make it easier for
you to see the current status, issue history, and API health of our
Platform.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 6:30am
With
fewer than 2 weeks to f8 the countdown has begun! Check out the session
tracks, details on After8 and information about f8 Live, the livestream
of the event.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:55am
Breaking
changes now on 1st of every month, Reminder: Breaking Changes coming on
Oct 1st,OAuth 2.0 for XMPP, Enable support for 960px uploads in the
photos.upload API, FB.Canvas.SetUrlHandler, Detecting visibility of
Flash objects in Canvas apps, Dev App Updates.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 8:15am
Today
we are integrating App Insights into the Dev App to make it convenient
for you to view analytics for your app as you are configuring your app.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:15pm
Making
the Graph API more complete: Reading Friend Requests, Managing Banned
App Users, Getting and Setting Migrations on your App, Checking if a
user is an admin of a Page; Activity Feed and Recommendations Plugins
Support Multiple Domains; Streamlined payment flows; Support Section;
OAuth 2.0 Encrypted Access Tokens
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 8:00am
Platform
Updates: Exporting data from Facebook, Reading and Managing
Notifications, Reading Achievements, App Attribution in Photo Tag
Stories, Reminders: Migrate to OAuth 2.0 + SSL by October 1, 2011,
Increasing transparency around policy enforcement, Deprecating Dashboard
APIs, Change in OAuth Redirect Behavior, FB.Canvas.setAutoResize
Issues, Dev Blog Email Issues
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 12:30am
The
tickets we made available last week for f8 sold out in just a few
hours. We are making more tickets available tomorrow, Friday, September
2nd, at 9:00am PDT.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 9:30pm
August 2011
Platform stability initiative - 90 day commitment and beta tier enhancements
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:50pm
Today
we are rolling this out to all our users, making some changes to the
app settings as well as providing a How-To to make it easy for you to
get started with taking advantage of Fluid Canvas.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 10:30pm
f8
date; Forums move to Stack Overflow; Developer App Updates; Changes to
iOS SDK auth methods; real-time ticker and fluid canvas not rolled out
to everyone.
Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 7:30am
Announcing f8 2011 on Sept 22nd at the Concourse at the San Francisco Design Center.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 9:30pm
Today
we are excited to launch facebook.stackoverflow.com and announce that
Facebook and Stack Exchange have partnered to support the Facebook
Developer community on Stack Overflow.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 11:00pm
Updates to photo and video permissions: user_photos, user_videos, user_photo_video_tags
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 6:15am
Blocking
users from Pages via the Graph API, Breaking Change:
FB.Canvas.getPageInfo now takes a callback, New per-app post privacy
control
Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 7:45am
Today we are updating the Developer App to make it easier for you to update all of your basic app settings in one place.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:30pm
Today
we have published the Social Design Guidelines on our Developer Site to
help you understand why you should build great social experiences as
well as how to use Facebook Platform effectively to create them.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:19pm
Games
launch, update to policies, insights for credits, marketing api, manage
app roles with Facebook groups and the new PHP SDK 3.1.1
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 7:45am
Tutorial for how to obtain the publish_actions permission, publishing scores and achievements for a user
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 11:00pm
Today
we're excited to make some of the biggest updates to the apps
experience on Facebook since we first launched Platform four years ago.
We are launching a major re-design to the Canvas Page to give your app
greater real-estate on the user’s browser, and including a live ticker
of real-time game related updates to keep the users constantly engaged
and updated with their friends’ activity on apps and games as they play.
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 5:30am
Today we are launching Insights for Credits to help you more efficiently analyze your business.
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 12:00am
Apply for the Facebook Marketing API Program. Ads API is officially out of beta. We have also releasing the Power Editor.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:00am
Manage app roles with Facebook Groups
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:30pm
Update to PHP SDK v.3.1.1
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 8:30am
PHP sdk on Aug 9th, changes to Auth spec
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 7:00am
How-To for uploading videos on iOS
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 8:00am
This How-To covers how to use channelUrl and asynchronous loading to optimize social plugin performance.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:30pm
July 2011
Feed
story ref parameter, manage_notifications permission, excluding
specific IDs and limiting number of recipients in the Request Dialog,
reauthorizing and app and revoking permissions via the Graph API, new
Insights metrics, and avoiding open redirectors.
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 7:15am
Today we are announcing the ability to create and add Test Users to your apps from the Developer Site.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 10:30pm
Updated JS SDK; Photo Upload to Graph API via URL; Attach photos to posts via fbid.
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 6:30am
We have released an updated version of the JavaScript SDK to provide OAuth 2.0 support.
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 2:15am
New
Functionality for Managing Pages through the Graph API including
retrieving access tokens for a Page, retrieving and updating the wall
settings for a Page, and installing app tabs for a Page; Ref param on
Send Button; Graph API Explorer can now be used with any Test user;
Optimizing payment methods for users; Browser support for Adobe Flash;
New FQL docs;
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 7:00am
Today,
we are announcing two updates to decouple the search submission from
the App directory to make it easier for you to get your app into the
Facebook search index.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 2:15am
graph api ref docs update completed, ability to specify name in test users, use app id instead of api key.
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:18am
Announcing
improvements to our enforcement systems that will provide more user
feedback directly to developers and will use that feedback to shape app
distribution in a more granular way.
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 3:30am
Adding
non-friends in any role to the Developer App, JavaScript SDK with OAuth
now available for upgrade on July 20, New Comments Box Features: Sort
Preference and Boosted Comments, Force wall option for Place Likebox.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 5:30am
As
we announced in <a
href="https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/451/">January</a>,
we are requiring all social game developers who deliver apps on
Facebook (i.e., canvas) to process payments through Facebook Credits as
of today.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 1:00am
June 2011
Today
we’re announcing major updates to the Developer App to help you easily
access, edit and manage your apps on the Developer Site.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:30pm
The
Graph API Explorer makes it easy to get started with the Graph API and
test the API as you program against it and build your app.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 8:30pm
Permission
changes to access user accounts, Required Migration to Facebook Credits
by July 1st, Reducing spam on News Feed and Profile
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 5:30am
Credits
Migration; New Credits Payment Methods and Workflows; Send Dialog;
Video Upload to Apps, Pages, Groups via the Graph API.
Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 5:30am
Building
on the popularity of the Send button, today we are introducing another
way for developers to let people share private content – the Send
Dialog.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:10pm
<p>Today
we’re announcing new international payment methods and improved payout
workflows for developers using Facebook Credits. Through these
improvements, we’re now able to support developers in virtually all
countries.</p>
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 4:20am
New
insights graph for page load times, "iframe" dialog no longer allowed
when requesting certain permissions, and minimum width for Open Graph
page images
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 7:15am
Message
parameter ignored in feed dialog, added border_color parameter to like
box plugin, new insights graph for page load times and credits migration
reminder.
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:30am
May 2011
This
week we launched the ability for developers signing up for Facebook
Credits to have the option to use PayPal as a payout option. Breaking
change: Graph API PROFILE_ID/feed and PROFILE_ID/posts will now require
an access token, Graph API to Tag photos, Launching Facebook and Games
Page
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 6:45am
Starting
today, developers signing up for Facebook Credits will have the option
to use PayPal as a payout option. Adding PayPal offers more flexibility
and choice for payouts and makes it even easier to monetize your app
with Facebook Credits.
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 9:45am
Handling invalidated session tokens, new PHP SDK, Client-side re-authentication flow, Old Insights dashboard
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 6:30am
As
part of our Developer Roadmap update requiring all apps to use OAuth
2.0 and HTTPS, we planned to make available an updated PHP SDK that uses
OAuth 2.0. Although we originally planned to release the PHP SDK on
July 1st, we moved fast and completed the update to version 3.0.0. This
SDK is now available for download on GitHub.
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 5:10am
This
February, we opened up a new round of submissions for the PDC program.
As businesses across the world look to get smarter about integrating
Facebook, we seek to ensure that the PDC program continues to meet these
needs everywhere that people use Facebook. We’ve selected 25 new
companies, including 13 internationally-based companies, to join the PDC
program. Our 90 PDCs now span across 170 offices and dozens of
countries, with 67 offices outside of the US.
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 9:45pm
Subscribing to threads in Comment Box; Like Story Dashboard; API access to Send button metrics; Reference Documentation.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 10:45am
One
of the most frequently asked for "How-To" requests from developers is
how to handle invalid access tokens. Access tokens for users can become
invalid due to various reasons. In most cases, they can expire if it’s
past the time specified by ‘expires’ field (by default access token have
a 2 hour lifetime). What many developers do not realize is that an
access token can also expire if a user changes her password, logs out or
if she de-authorizes the app via the App Dashboard. It is very
important that your apps handle such situations. If your access token
expires, you need to reacquire a valid access token.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 10:15am
Earlier
this week, we updated our Developer Roadmap to require the use of OAuth
2.0 and HTTPS. These updates are part of a continual process to make
our Platform more secure for developers and users. Over the past few
days, we received several questions from developers about these updates.
We wanted to provide more context around why we are requiring these
changes and how we can work together to provide a safer online
experience.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 6:30am
As
part of our continuing series of “how tos,” we thought it’d be
interesting to show how you can easily upload photos to a user’s
profile.
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 8:05am
Important Developer Roadmap updates: OAuth 2.0 + HTTPS migration
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 11:55pm
Test Users: Updated response, increased limit, and ability to reset passwords, Prompting users to re-authenticate
Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 5:30am
April 2011
Using
the Graph API permissions to get a list of user granted permissions for
your application, and improving developer site performance.
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 4:40am
Send button launch
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12:30am
Added a link back to Video object, where we will list the video formats we support for uploading.
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 5:45am
Welcome
back. Since version 0.3 was released, we’ve seen great progress across
the browser landscape. Internet Explorer 9 was released. Internet
Explorer 10 opened platform preview. Firefox 4 and M...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 10:55pm
This
week, we added new features to the Comments Box, published a “How-To:
Implement Facebook Credits” guide and filmed a tutorial to help canvas
game developers begin the migration process to Facebo...
Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 4:30am
Since
the updated Comments Box plugin launched last month, more than 50,000
websites have added it to their site. Today we’re launching new features
to help increase traffic, engagement, and the qual...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:00am
Facebook
Credits is the easiest way for people to buy digital goods and services
on Facebook. As announced in January and on our Developer Roadmap, we
will require canvas game developers on Facebook...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 11:15pm
This
week, we shared videos, presentations, and sample code from the Paris
Developer Garage to the Dev Site to help educate developers on Facebook
Platform basics.
Per-post impressions added to st...
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 6:05am
One
of our goals with Operation Developer Love is to have more
opportunities to hear from you and accelerate your app development on
Facebook Platform. We recently hosted events in Berlin, Paris, and...
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 6:40am
This
weekly update comes from Dublin, Ireland, where we’ve concluded
Operation Developer Love: Europe 2011. We want to thank the hundreds of
developers that spoke to us and came out to our events. T...
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 6:05am
March 2011
Operation
Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer
Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are
also livestreaming the video.
Agenda:
Welcome
So...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 1:00pm
This
week, Operation Developer Love is coming from Facebook HACK: Berlin,
where we presented and demoed Platform bootcamp, hacked with over 375
developers, and announced a partnership with Seedcamp t...
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 8:00pm
As
part of our ongoing efforts to engage with developers locally, we are
partnering with Seedcamp, an early stage micro seed investment and
mentoring program, to help encourage and support startups i...
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 3:20pm
HTTPS
URLs for Page tabs
We recently introduced the ability for users to browse Facebook over
HTTPS. At the same time, we began providing a “Secure Canvas URL” field
in the Developer App for develope...
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 6:35am
Fixed some OAuth deprecation related issues.
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:00am
This
week, we sent a reminder about the POST to Canvas migration happening
tomorrow and shared how to implement paging via the Graph API and FQL.
No new FBML apps
With our recent launch of Req...
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 7:10am
Whenever
we anticipate an intentional breaking change, we update the Platform
Roadmap and provide a migration to give developers the ability to
upgrade and test their apps. Last week, we posted a rem...
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4:35am
Often
times, when you are getting data from the Graph API or FQL, we will
only return a subset of the data. Just as you have to turn the pages of a
book to read the whole book, you may need to “page”...
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:30am
Over
the past year, social plugins have become an important and growing
source of traffic for millions of websites. Today we're releasing a
new version of Insights for Websites to give you better an...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 10:30pm
New
This Week
This week, we updated the Comments Plugin to give site owners better
moderation tools and distribution, while improving commenting quality.
We also resolved a launch issue with Setting...
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 5:30am
Today,
we’re launching updates to the Comments Box plugin with new moderation
tools as well as features to improve the distribution and quality of
comments on your site.
More Social Relevance...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 5:50am
As
announced in January, we will require social game developers on the
Facebook canvas platform to process all payments through Facebook
Credits starting July 1.
While we are requiring social game d...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 3:30am
Today we’re announcing three updates to the payments and reporting features of Facebook Credits to better serve our developers:
Faster payment schedules. Starting this month, Facebook will issue paym...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:50am
February 2011
We
often hear from companies looking for guidance on maximizing their
Facebook presence. To better meet each entity’s needs, we introduced the
Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program in December...
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:55pm
This
week, we made it easier to find and accept developer requests and made
more progress improving browser performance for HTML5 Games by releasing
JSGameBench version 0.3.
Startup Day
As pa...
Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 9:50pm
Two
weeks ago, Cory, Conor and I released version 0.2 of JSGameBench with
increased performance and more refined recommendations. Today, with the
release of version 0.3, we get our first taste of t...
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 2:30am
Developers
often tell us that it can be difficult to find and accept requests to
confirm their role (administrator, developer, tester, or insights user)
within an app. These developer requests are us...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 10:10pm
This
week, we encouraged all apps to upgrade to Requests 2.0 so that as a
developer, you only need to worry about one way of updating users about
outstanding items in your app - send requests.
D...
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 4:30am
As
part of Operation Developer Love, we are are continuing to update our
documentation. Recently, I was talking with some developers in New
York, and they were surprised to learn that they could pub...
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 3:00am
Requests
and Bookmarks help users more easily reengage with apps they use.
Whenever a user has an action to take within an app, a counter appears
next to the bookmark.
Instead of manually managing...
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2:35am
Operation
Developer Love
This week, we introduced iframe Tabs for Pages, made progress improving
browser performance for HTML5 Games by releasing JSGameBench version
0.2, and updated our Platform...
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 3:50am
Today
we announced major updates to Facebook Pages to help Page admins manage
communications, express their brands, and increase engagement. As part
of these changes, we are also updating the model f...
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 12:30am
Two
weeks ago Bruce and I released JSGameBench version 0.1. Today marks the
release of version 0.2, a much faster and cleaner version. We continue
to learn both from tightening the code and from the...
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 2:30am
For
the past year, we’ve required ad providers operating on Apps on
Facebook.com (i.e., Canvas apps) to sign terms with us. These terms
ensure that these ad providers are committed to conforming to...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10:30pm
Operation
Developer Love
This week, we launched two new features for apps that use Facebook
Credits within their games: buy with friends and frictionless payments.
Sharing test accounts between...
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 6:30am
Today,
we’re introducing two features for developers that use Facebook Credits
as the primary virtual currency within their games: buy with friends
and frictionless payments. These features enhance t...
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 3:00am
January 2011
This
morning, the White House introduced the Startup America Partnership to
bring people across public and private industries together to foster
entrepreneurship. As a company with strong entrepreneu...
Monday, January 31, 2011 at 3:30pm
Operation
Developer Love
We’re continuing to gather and address the feedback you’ve provided
about your experiences building on Facebook Platform. Thank you for your
help filing bugs, your participat...
Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 7:10am
Yesterday
we announced new security features to protect users’ accounts, and
today we’re releasing security features for Platform applications.
As companies building on Platform grow, they develop th...
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 3:00am
This
evening we hosted a standing room only HTML5 Tech Talk with Charles
Jolley (SproutCore) and Laurent Desegur (Zynga) that was joined by over
900 people on the livestream.
Before the event, Cory O...
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 12:25pm
Requests
are one of the key communication channels on Facebook Platform.
Today, we're announcing a new, faster Requests Dialog that is easier for
developers to use and enables people to send more re...
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 5:30am
At
Facebook, we devote significant resources to improving the security of
people’s accounts. We have a variety of internal systems that detect
and block suspicious behavior, and today we announced th...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 7:00pm
We
launched the Registration plugin in mid-December to help streamline the
way users can sign up for accounts on your site, and connect those
accounts with Facebook. We've received great feedback fro...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 12:25am
Facebook
Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions
across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their
payment information once and can buy, earn and spend...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 12:20am
Developer Love
Bugzilla activity for the past 7 days:
97 new bugs were reported
10 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
3 bugs were fixed (2 previously reported bugs and 1 ne...
Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 6:30am
HTML5
(HTML, JavaScript and CSS) is really pushing forward what's possible
inside of your Web browser, blurring the line between Web and native
apps. We have high hopes for HTML5 and have already be...
Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30am
On
Friday, we expanded the information you are able to share with external
websites and applications to include your address and mobile number.
With this change, you could, for example, easily share...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:55am
New User Object fields, Edge.remove event, and more
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 6:30am
Old
Insights Dashboard
We have completed migrating all data available in the old version of
Insights to the new Insights dashboard. With this and other recent
improvements, you can now view and expor...
Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 6:30am
December 2010
On
the last day of 2010, we only have a few updates to share. We are
looking forward to an exciting 2011, with more great products, better
reliability and improved documentation for developers.
Test...
Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 6:30am
Throughout
this year, we have worked closely with media organizations to make
their content even more social by empowering readers to experience media
through their friends and easily discover and sha...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 7:30pm
Extending
the Third-Party Identifier Deadline
In November, we outlined our technical solution to address the use of
UIDs on Facebook Platform. Since that time, we have worked closely with
the develop...
Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 5:30am
Platform
Change Log
We generally announce notable changes on the Developer Blog and minor
changes in these Friday blog posts. We’re now also providing a change
log for developers to identify changes...
Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 4:00am
Today
we're launching a new registration plugin that gives website owners the
ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up.
It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (form...
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 8:55pm
Testing
App Requests in Notifications
Games and applications are core to many people’s experience on Facebook,
which is why we’re constantly working to improve how people discover,
engage and interact...
Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 3:00am
A
long-standing but often forgotten tip for building on Platform is to
test your app against our beta tier (http://www.beta.facebook.com),
which we push to every Sunday night. This gives you around 48...
Friday, December 10, 2010 at 6:15am
Today
we are releasing improvements to our Platform Dialogs, which let users
take actions, like publishing a stream story or sending a friend
request, from your application. Dialogs allow developers...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 8:30am
This
week we’re excited to join European entrepreneurs, industry
influencers, and business leaders at the Le Web conference in Paris to
discuss Platforms and their importance to businesses, developers...
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 9:30pm
New
Promotion Policies
Based on feedback from the community, we have modified our policies to
let businesses run promotions on Facebook without seeking our approval
or permission. We’re excited about...
Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 6:30am
November 2010
It
is Thanksgiving week in the US, so we are posting our weekly roundup
early. This seems like an ideal time to say thanks to the Facebook
developer community. We believe strongly in the future of s...
Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 3:00am
Last
month, we outlined an initial proposal to address the inadvertent
sharing of User IDs (UIDs) via the HTTP Referral header. Further, we
announced our intention to provide a unique, but anonymous...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 7:55am
New
Requests Education
As part of our ongoing efforts to educate users on the new home for
requests, we have reintroduced games and apps request links on the right
side of the homepage. These links wi...
Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 5:00am
Facebook
is built on authentic relationships and the ability for real people to
connect to what’s important to them. As such, we have internal systems
designed to detect and disable fake profiles, bu...
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 1:40am
Today,
we announced the new Messages, which simplifies conversations with
friends by combining messages, texts, chats and emails into a single
thread. This update to our existing messages product is d...
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 11:00pm
API
fixes and minor features
We are rolling up several bug fixes and minor features that could break
existing applications into a new migration called “November 2010
Rollup,” which you can enable from...
Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 6:30am
Operation
Developer Love
Over the last month, we have focused on triaging bugs filed by
developers and reporting our progress. Last week, the team dedicated an
entire day to bugs, which resulted in 3...
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 5:30am
Today
marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Facebook for mobile.
We now reach 200 million monthly active users, making Facebook one of
the most popular mobile applications in the world....
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:30pm
October 2010
As
we outlined previously, we recently learned that some developers on
Facebook Platform were inadvertently sharing User IDs (UIDs) due to an
issue with the way that web browsers work. While we found...
Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 3:45am
Operation
Developer Love Update
We’re continuing to work hard to improve our responsiveness on bugs
reported in Bugzilla. In fact, right now, a bunch of us are together in a
room going through the bac...
Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 3:30am
Operation
Developer Love
As we mentioned last week, we are working hard to improve our response
to bugs and the other issues you have raised with Facebook Platform. We
are reporting our progress on b...
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 4:30am
Over
the past few days, we have been investigating a technical solution to
the issue of sharing Facebook User IDs (UIDs). While initial press
reports greatly exaggerated the implications of sharing a...
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 9:10pm
We
take user privacy seriously. We are dedicated to protecting private
user data while letting users enjoy rich experiences with their friends.
This more social Web will only occur if users trust tha...
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 10:00am
We
have received a great deal of feedback recently about things we should
do to improve Facebook Platform. The themes are clear: “fix the bugs,”
“update the documentation,” “talk to us more,” and “ma...
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 6:15am
Today,
we’re announcing a significant expansion in the number of developers
that can be part of Facebook Credits, the virtual currency used in games
and applications on Facebook. And working with our...
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 2:45am
Here
is a round up of recent Platform updates:
Read and Revoke Requests
At our recent event for Game developers, we announced new Graph API
calls to read a user’s existing requests and delete all of...
Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 3:30am
Today,
we launched a new version of Groups. This new version of Groups
simplifies the creation of groups, adds group chat, and provides mailing
list style notifications to keep group members inform...
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 12:35am
Today,
we announced several changes to help people better manage their
Facebook experience around the web. One important change is the
addition of a dashboard that adds more visibility and control fo...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 11:45pm
September 2010
We want share a few new features that we recently released:
Updated Live Stream Plugin
We’re rolling out an update to the Live Stream plugin for all new and existing applications to be more consisten...
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 11:45pm
First,
hello from the new Games team! Over the last few months, we’ve
assembled a team of dedicated engineers and product managers who are
focused exclusively on designing the platform you need to ma...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 5:50am
We’re
simplifying our Developer Principles & Policies to make building
with Facebook Platform easier. Based on feedback from many of you, our
new policies are shorter and easier to understand; they g...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 5:30am
This
weekend we’ll be co-hosting our first 24-hour Developer Garage /
Hackathon, with Girls in Tech. The event begins tomorrow at 12:00 PM PDT
and will be taking place at Facebook headquarters in Palo...
Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 2:35am
Since
we launched social plugins in April, we’ve been listening to user
feedback and working with developers to optimize the Like button to make
it as seamless as possible for people to like content a...
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 1:00am
August 2010
To
celebrate women in technology and provide education and community
around building social experiences across the web, we’re excited to
announce that we’ve partnered with Girls in Tech for our first...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 5:20pm
At
Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a
unique perspective can accomplish. We’ve already seen how a group of
startups who built social interactions into the core of t...
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 6:00am
We
announced a number of new products and updates to Facebook Platform at
f8 in April, including the Graph API, social plugins, and support for
OAuth 2.0. Over the next few months we will be making u...
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 12:45am
Today
we released Places, a new way for people on Facebook to share where
they are, see where their friends have checked in, and discover
interesting places nearby. As part of the rollout, we're maki...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 6:00am
We're
excited to announce that Intel is continuing its sponsorship of the
Facebook Developer Garage Program. Last year, Intel sponsored 25
Developer Garages. Intel's developer program supports talen...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:45am
As
we continue to provide developers with the tools to make applications
social across platforms, today we’re launching an updated Facebook SDK
for iOS (formerly iPhone SDK) for use with iPhone, iPod...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:30pm
We
announced plans last October to remove application boxes and
application info sections as well as reduce the width of application
tabs to optimize for the new profile and Facebook Pages format. We...
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 2:45am
July 2010
Small
blogs to major media organizations focus on producing great content and
surfacing it to the right people. Facebook Platform offers the ability
to supplement this content by making the experience...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 3:00am
Since
it launched in April, the Like button has given you the opportunity to
make your websites more social in just a few steps. Today, we’re
releasing more features for the Like button to add even m...
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 11:45pm
We're
updating the left hand navigation of the home page to simplify users'
access to the bookmarks to their most used applications.
As part of this, we're making it easier for your users to easily a...
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 3:45am
We're
excited to announce the Facebook C# SDK alpha release. This is our
first official C# SDK, built to meet the needs of the significant
community of Facebook developers using C#.
The SDK has a n...
Friday, July 16, 2010 at 11:45pm
Facebook
is growing rapidly in countries like Japan, Korea, Russia, Brazil,
India, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. And as more users adopt
Facebook, your applications have the opportunity to ga...
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 9:30pm
June 2010
As a reminder, today we will begin rolling out our new data model to all applications and websites that use Facebook Platform.
To ensure a smooth transition for this major change, we provided devel...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:15pm
In
April, we announced a new data model to provide users with greater
transparency and control of their information. As part of this feature,
all applications that require more than a user's basic i...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 10:30pm
We're in England for Facebook Developer Garage London – Special Edition, taking place Monday, June 21st.
Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, will connect with European developers and share hi...
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 12:30pm
A
primary design goal of the Open Graph protocol — which
enables any Web page to become a rich object in the social graph
— has been to make it simple for developers to integrate it
into t...
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 10:15pm
Connect
with the Facebook team in London on June 20th and June 21st to explore
the next evolution of Facebook Platform at Facebook Developer Garage -
Hackathon and Facebook Developer Garage London –...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 12:25pm
Having
good analytics is a key to successfully growing a business. To provide
you with even better metrics for your Facebook applications, websites,
and Pages, we recently launched an improved Insight...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 1:30am
Starting
this week, we are requiring every developer to verify his or her
Facebook account to create new applications. This is the same quick
process that users go through when they want to do things...
Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 3:00am
We
hope those in the Portland area this week will join us for the second
Open Source Bridge conference. As a co-sponsor of the event, Facebook
will participate with more than 100 other presenters to...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 2:15am
May 2010
We're
really excited to launch the beta version of the Facebook SDK for
Android, which we demoed at Google I/O in San Francisco last week. Over
100 million people use Facebook on their mobile phones...
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 11:30pm
We
announced a redesign of our Privacy Settings page today to make it
simpler for people to control how public or private they want to be
through Facebook. These changes, along with the updates we re...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 11:30pm
We're
excited to announce some new features we've released recently: the
ability to get your stream stories translated and programmatically
control migrations and block users on Facebook Pages.
Gett...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:45pm
Facebook
Platform's tools enable you to capture the power of the social graph.
On Facebook, we've seen how much more people engage with different
content — such as photos, events, and games &md...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 9:45pm
We
shared an update last week about the products launched at f8 and that
over 50,000 websites have already implemented the new social plugins to
become more personalized. We created the Open Graph pr...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 4:30am
April 2010
As
stewards of the rapidly growing Facebook Platform, we're committed to
creating an ecosystem that developers find compelling and encourages
them to build engaging applications. We believe a strong...
Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 6:00am
Thanks
to all of you who made f8 such a great event — from the more
than 1,500 attendees to the 120,000 people who joined us on f8 Live, our
live stream channel. Below is a summary of our new t...
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 1:15am
Earlier
today we introduced the new Graph API to help you more easily access
data from Facebook. To improve the Facebook Platform experience for
developers and users, this data is now backed by a sim...
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 2:15am
We're
hosting our third f8 conference in San Francisco today. There are two
important themes behind everything we're delivering today. First, the
Web is moving to a model based on the connections bet...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 11:30pm
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 11:30pm
f8, our developer conference, is five days away and we're excited to release more details on the four tracks we're hosting:
New Tools: Everything you need to know about our new tools (we’ll share mor...
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 1:30am
Facebook
Platform engineers added Translations and iPad support to the Facebook
iPhone SDK this past week. Also, Facebook and iSEC Partners wrote about
secure Facebook application development. Read o...
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 11:30pm
Whether
you're joining us in person at f8, or will be following the event from
afar, we’re looking forward to celebrating the developer community with
everyone on April 21.
Preparing for f8, Taking...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 2:30am
New
features released this week include the ability to render a button so
users can add application tabs to their profiles as well as updated
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 tutorials and documentation.
Promp...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 12:45am
March 2010
We
introduced the Open Stream API nearly a year ago, which opened one of
our core products -- the stream -- to developers. In that time, we've
watched how the developer community has innovated and ma...
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 2:00am
The
developer community's response to registration for f8 has been
overwhelming. The first wave of tickets sold out in two days, and nearly
7000 users are now fans of the f8 Page. In response to the...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 12:30am
We're
excited to announce a number of new features this week, including ways
to retrieve friends, applications, and Pages a user has tagged in a
post; to query the stream without the read_stream exten...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 4:15am
We
are opening registration today for f8, Facebook's conference where
developers and entrepreneurs collaborate on the future of personalized
and social technologies.
We hope you will join us on Apr...
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 3:00am
The
Facebook team is heading to the SXSW Interactive Festival this week in
Austin, Texas. Whether you'll be there in person, or can join us online,
we hope that you'll be a part of the excitement too...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:00am
We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations
who are looking for the best resources to start building an
application on Facebook.com, optimize a
Facebook Connect integra...
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:30pm
February 2010
When
we launched Facebook Platform in 2007 there were just 40 million users
on Facebook. Since then, in less than three years, more than 350 million
users have joined Facebook, and more than one milli...
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 11:00pm
Since
our alpha test of Facebook Credits started in May 2009, we have worked
hard to build a program that drives value for our developers. The
long-term goal of Facebook Credits is to provide a curr...
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 3:00am
We're
always working to give you the best tools to create great social
experiences for users, and to give users control over their
applications. Today we're launching the Migrations tool to give devel...
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 12:00am
We've
recently rolled out four new FQL tables, added a new field to a fifth
table, and released new features giving users more control over their
privacy on Facebook Platform.
New FQL Tables and Feat...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 1:30am
Every
day people send more than two billion chat messages to each other on
Facebook. Today we're making it easier for people to extend those
conversations with their Facebook friends to instant messa...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:00am
Updates to the Facebook Home Page
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7:30am
Over
the past year, we've focused on providing an environment for developers
that rewards high-quality, third-party advertising and monetization
practices. Through this process, it's become clear tha...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:30pm
January 2010
We're
launching the Games Dashboard and the Applications Dashboard in the
coming weeks to make it easier for users to interact with your
applications and provide you with new communication channels ac...
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 1:30am
Facebook
Platform has evolved since its launch in 2007, providing developers
with a number of different communication channels to interact with their
users. In October 2009 we announced a roadmap for...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 10:30pm
From
the day Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm
room in 2004, the site has been built on common open source software
such as Linux, Apache, memcached, MySQL, and PHP. In t...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 10:30pm
We wrapped up 2009 with a multitude of developer events worldwide.
The Facebook team started the month in Paris, France, at the Le Web conference focused on the real-time Web. Ethan Beard, th...
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:15am
December 2009
We
close the year with important updates to the new JavaScript SDK, stream
publishing policies, and stream API methods; a quartet of new FQL
tables; and the new dashboard API, among other highlights....
Friday, January 1, 2010 at 2:30am
As
we look toward a new year, we’d like to look back at some examples of
startups and established companies, including those from Facebook's own
fbFund program, that built their businesses on Faceboo...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 11:50pm
We've
shipped a prototype implementation of the emerging OAuth WRAP
specification on FriendFeed. If you're a developer working with RESTful
APIs, you'll want to check this out!
OAuth is a technolog...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 2:00am
We're
excited to release the first update to our open source Facebook Connect
JavaScript SDK, currently in alpha. The SDK has two key pieces of new
functionality: basic support for XFBML and an advan...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 12:55am
As
we pass the December 16th and 20th deadlines for enforcement of our new
Developer Principles and Policies, we wanted to talk more about
Facebook Platform's principles, including the role they play...
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 3:15am
On
May 24th, 2007, we launched Facebook Platform alongside 800 developers
and entrepreneurs at our first f8 conference in San Francisco. Many of
the people at this first event built the innovative a...
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 11:35pm
We
often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations who
are looking for the best resources to start building an application on
Facebook.com, optimize a Facebook Connect integration o...
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 1:30am
With
this week's code push we've released the Dashboard API and the family
FQL table, updated some API calls so they work without session keys, and
soon will start returning English-only strings for...
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 4:30am
One
year ago we launched Facebook Connect to enable developers to bring
Facebook identities and the social graph to their own technologies. With
the help of all of you, Facebook Connect has made thou...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 11:35pm
We're
at the Le Web conference in Paris this week to discuss the social Web
and Facebook Connect, which launched one year ago this month. Whether
you're in town for the event too, or can catch the f...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 11:10pm
Developers hosted three Facebook Developer Garages worldwide in November.
In London, 150 people attended the Facebook Developer Garage focused on the details of the updated Platform technical sp...
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 3:45am
We
launched a Developer Roadmap this past October to keep you up to date
on changes to Facebook Platform. As we roll these updates out, we wanted
to call special attention to a few of the recent and u...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 10:30pm
November 2009
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve communication with our developer
community, we offer you the latest monthly roundup of the announcements,
new features, and updates to Facebook Platform that...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:30am
Applications
on Facebook Platform are businesses, and we want those businesses to
succeed. That's why there is a variety of ways to monetize your
applications, including using third-party providers of...
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:45am
The
Facebook team will say bonjour to Paris at the annual technology
conference, Le Web on December 9th and 10th, where we’ll discuss the
latest in the real time Web.
If you plan on attending, we ho...
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 2:30am
When
we announced the Developer Roadmap, we also simplified our policies by
replacing the Facebook Platform Guidelines with the new Developer
Principles and Policies, and posted Examples and Explana...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:30pm
We're
releasing some updates to stream story formatting, FQL, and finding
fans this week. These changes are going live with the weekly code push,
which takes place Tuesday evening, Pacific Time.
Swi...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:50am
Over
the past few years, we've worked hard to open source large pieces of
our infrastructure such as Thrift, Scribe, and Hive, as we continue to
take steps to support the open community and build a s...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:05am
We're excited to announce our official support for the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform, which Microsoft released today.
This SDK contains rich social features and offers something for almost any...
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:30pm
As
part of an ongoing effort we've had underway to address the quality of
third-party ads running inside applications, we wanted to offer some
clarifications, reminders, and information on our action...
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 4:45am
Many
of you currently use the Facebook JavaScript client library to
integrate social features into your website or application. This
library helps you access a user's identity (like name, profile ph...
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:35am
At
Facebook we work overtime to protect users' experience from hackers,
phishers, fraudsters, and other bad actors across the Web.
Our users trust Facebook with their personal data, which is somethin...
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:25pm
A
big part of building a successful and lasting application isn't just
about getting users to try it the first time, it's also vital to get
them to come back again and again. To help make that easier...
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 12:05am
We
hosted six Facebook Developer Garages this month around the globe.
In Istanbul, Turkey, over 250 developers were joined by Facebook’s
Justin Osofsky, who gave an overview of the benefits of impl...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 1:25am
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve communication with our developer
community, we offer you the latest monthly roundup of the announcements,
new features, and updates to Facebook Platform that...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:55pm
October 2009
Building
a growing, thriving application can be challenging. Building that
application on an innovative Platform that's releasing new features,
deprecating old APIs, and occasionally has bugs can occ...
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 12:15am
At
Facebook, we focus on providing our developer community with simple
building blocks to speed innovation and create an environment where
small teams quickly push new products that can rapidly disru...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:10am
The
Facebook team will share a sneak peek of the Facebook Platform roadmap
at a special Facebook Developer Garage Palo Alto today starting at 3:30
PM PDT.
Live TV by Ustream
Julia, who manages De...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:30pm
We've
released a few updates to our APIs this week that are aimed at
enhancing users' experience with your applications and make building on
Facebook easier.
Extending the Comments API
Commenting on...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 1:39am
Each
week, users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook,
and most of that sharing is facilitated by Facebook Share buttons across
the Web, on websites like YouTube, Wall Street Journ...
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:30pm
We're
focused on creating the best ways to empower users to share with their
friends, as well as providing developers with the tools they need to
make applications social and add value to the Facebook...
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:50pm
Flash
continues to be one of the most popular languages for building engaging
user experiences with Facebook, whether it's an application on Facebook
like FarmVille or iLike, or Ben and Jerry's Flash...
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 3:20am
Many
websites are looking for ways to integrate Facebook Connect, such as
commenting using Facebook identity or showing visitors their Facebook
friends' recent activity. Companies like DISQUS offer w...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:46am
Desktop applications can now upload photos using our open source library, which is based on Adobe AIR.
The new version of the library makes it easy to upload photos directly to Facebook using photos...
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 1:53am
At
Facebook, we’re always looking for ways to increase users’ awareness
and engagement with third party applications while maintaining and
improving the user experience. Earlier today, we announced...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 11:56pm
More
people create events on Facebook than on any other website, and last
year we created the Events API to extend the reach to applications.
Today we're announcing a number of changes to the Events...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10:30pm
In
order to make a more consistent and secure user experience when
connecting accounts, we're changing the behavior of the dialog when a
user connects accounts between your site and Facebook when the...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 1:02am
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve communication with our developer
community, we offer you the latest monthly roundup of the announcements,
new features, and updates to Facebook Platform that...
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 12:38am
September 2009
Earlier
today, we announced Translations for Facebook Connect, which simplifies
and streamlines the process of translating a website into to any of the
more than 65 different languages Facebook curre...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:30pm
Translating
your website to tailor its content to an international audience can be
expensive, time consuming, and complicated. Idiomatic phrases, complex
sentence structures, and slang expressions can...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:31am
The
Facebook team is in London this week to join the international
community of developers, entrepreneurs and designers at Future of Web
Apps (FOWA) London to talk about the latest with Facebook Conn...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 3:48am
We
announced and open sourced Tornado two weeks ago. Tornado is a
relatively simple, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python.
It's designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections,...
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 3:56am
Here
on the Facebook Platform Engineering team, we strive to keep Facebook
Connect fast and stable, and to help you ensure that your
implementations are working and bug free.
We recently began wo...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 12:20am
We're
excited to host today's Facebook Developer Garage at TechCrunch50 in
San Francisco. At this global competition for start-ups, we're inspired
by the innovative business models, and we're particul...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 2:04am
We
launched the Facebook Developer Garage program shortly after f8 in 2007
to encourage local communities worldwide to unite, share information,
and create businesses that leverage Facebook Platform....
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:30pm
At
Facebook, we enable developers and entrepreneurs large and small to
leverage our tools to build social features into their sites and
applications. Tomorrow, we’ll be at the TechCrunch50 conference...
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 10:28pm
Real-time
updates have become an important aspect of the social Web that make it
easier to share with friends. In March, we introduced a real-time News
Feed to make the stream as relevant and engaging as possible for users.
Similarly, FriendFeed, which we recently acquired, built their entire
site to support real-time updates. It hasn't been easy to build and
scale these features, so today we're open-sourcing a core piece of
infrastructure called Tornado, which was originally developed by the
FriendFeed team.
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:31pm
We
are big fans of open source software and standards. Whenever one of our
internal projects will benefit the developer community at large, we try
to make the jump by turning it into an open source p...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:36pm
Over
the last three years, there has been unprecedented innovation in the
mobile industry, made evident by a surge of new devices and
applications. As engagement with this technology grows, developer...
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 9:00pm
We are excited to have touched new regions this month with three Developer Garages in emerging markets worldwide.
In our first Developer Garage in South America, the Facebook team journeyed down to...
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 1:12am
Yesterday,
we wrapped up a great event for our first fbFund REV social incubator.
Congratulations to the fbFund REV companies! They showcased their
progress and accomplishments to over 300 investor...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:50pm
Today,
at one of our old offices in downtown Palo Alto, it's graduation day
for our first round of the fbFund REV social incubator program. We're
wrapping up a packed summer of innovation, collaborat...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 10:30pm
August 2009
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve communication with our developer
community, we offer you the latest monthly roundup of the announcements,
new features, and updates to Facebook Platform that...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 5:08am
Facebook
Share is one of the most powerful and simple ways for users to share
articles, pages, video, or Flash content from your site with their
friends on Facebook. Over 1 billion pieces of content...
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 11:12pm
We
announced this morning plans to further improve users' control over
their information. These changes are a result of our work with the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, which has spent...
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 7:31pm
We're
continuously looking for ways to open core Facebook experiences to
developers for innovation. Today we set our focus on two communication
channels: notifications and the Facebook Inbox. We're...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 2:33am
In
a recent data review, we discovered a bug that was either
under-reporting or over-reporting the total number of users who had
authorized some Platform applications. We're correcting this number
tod...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 12:16am
We're
excited to announce that we've simplified the application authorization
flow for desktop applications. The new authorization flow uses Facebook
Connect and we recommend you use this system movin...
Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 1:55am
We
launched the Open Stream API in April to give developers access to a
core Facebook experience, and the ability publish to users' streams.
The Open Stream API supports several different publishing...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 2:27am
We're
at the Facebook Developer Garage São Paulo today and hope you'll join
us to hear a few words from Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Live video by Ustream
Tune in at 1:30 PM PST to watch t...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 1:18am
Platform
events were mostly focused on the Developer Garage program this month.
The Facebook Developer Garage program serves as a forum to share new
ideas with developers and find partners like you....
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 11:18pm
July 2009
With
over 950,000 developers using Facebook Platform to build applications
that engage millions of users every day, we are focused on making the
developer experience as positive as possible. As part o...
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 4:59am
We
are always interested in hearing from developers and entrepreneurs
about their experiences with Facebook Connect. Since the launch of
Facebook Connect in December, 2008, more than 15,000 Facebook...
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 12:43am
Facebook
Platform has come a long way in the two years since its launch. What
started out as a small collection of API methods allowing our developers
to integrate some user information into their app...
Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 2:10am
The
Facebook Platform team is excited by the innovation we're seeing as
developers create new ways to bring value to users. The canvas is yours
to fill -- your direct connection to users for deliverin...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 7:20am
The
Facebook website has been translated into 64 languages and locales over
the past 18 months, with many more in progress. And Facebook Connect
has been implemented on some 15,000 sites, devices, an...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:40am
As
Facebook Platform grows, so have the businesses of many of the
developers finding success on Facebook Platform. From hiring teams to
growing userbases and raising funding, developers around the w...
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 1:53am
Over
8 million users become fans of Facebook Pages every day to connect with
their favorite public figures and organizations and get updates
directly in their streams. Now, users can connect with bra...
Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 1:26am
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve our communication with our
developer community, we offer you our latest monthly roundup of the
announcements, new features, and updates to Facebook Platform t...
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 7:47am
The
Platform team stayed close to home early this month with the Facebook
Friends.get Party – Birthday Edition event hosted on our home front in
San Francisco. Developers, VCs, and tech luminaries j...
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:53am
As
Facebook has grown internationally into a worldwide network, we've come
to realize that organizing our users into geographic networks isn't as
useful as knowing where a user is currently located....
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 4:46am
June 2009
During
the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration, we tested a new feature that let
people share Facebook status updates and comments side by side with
real-time streaming video on CNN's website. It was a...
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 1:02am
Many
of you already use Facebook's query language, FQL, to quickly retrieve
Facebook data and integrate it into your application experience. For the
uninitiated, FQL uses a familiar, SQL-style interf...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 3:51am
With
over 950,000 developers using Facebook Platform to build applications
that engage millions of users every day, we are focused on making the
developer experience as positive as possible. To this...
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 10:48pm
In
less than six months, over 10,000 websites, applications and devices
like the Xbox and Nintendo DSi have implemented Facebook Connect to
provide new social experiences. We’re excited to share tod...
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 2:36am
Earlier
today, we announced that we're planning to offer Facebook usernames to
make it easier for people to find and connect with users and Facebook
Pages. From its beginning, Facebook has been a pla...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 1:47am
Last
week was the two-year anniversary of our f8 conference, where Facebook
Platform was first launched. I wanted to take this opportunity to
provide an update on how far we’ve come and where Platfor...
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 10:59am
The
Facebook Platform team focused much of our attention in Colorado this
month, starting off with the Platform team's Josh Elman speaking to over
250 technology professionals at the Glue Conference...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 12:53am
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve our communication with our
developer community, we offer you our latest monthly roundup of the
announcements, new features, and updates to Facebook Platform t...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 7:42am
May 2009
Accelerate.
Revise. Iterate. Revolutionize.
These words describe the spirit behind fbFund REV 2009, our new startup
incubator program for social websites, applications, and platforms.
Eighteen sta...
Friday, May 29, 2009 at 1:30am
A
big part of Facebook Platform and Connect has always been mentoring and
inspiring entrepreneurs to build new experiences using the power of the
social graph. Here on the Facebook Platform team we s...
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 7:19am
We
are excited to announce our inaugural set of 120 Verified Apps to
Facebook users! We opened the program to interested developers several
months ago and have been overwhelmed by the positive respo...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 9:39pm
In
continuing with our efforts toward greater openness, we are excited to
announce that Facebook is now an OpenID relying party. We've been
engaging with the OpenID community for a while now. We'll b...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 2:24am
Guest
post by Founders Fund startup investor and geek blogger Dave McClure,
who will be running the fbFund 2009 Incubator Program.
Alright folks, the votes are in! The Academy... er, i mean the f...
Monday, May 18, 2009 at 11:33pm
In
the nearly two years since Facebook Platform opened to developers, over
52,000 applications have gone live in the Application Directory.
Ensuring that applications are trustworthy, meaningful (wh...
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 2:02am
The
Publisher is a great way for your users to interact with your
application, sharing content directly on their friends' profiles as well
as posting content to their own profiles. And now, we've upd...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 5:07am
Facebook
Platform developers are an active and critical part of making the
Facebook experience rich and engaging, and the Platform team is working
hard to give our developers improved support. We've l...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 12:58am
Next
week, we'll be in Denver to join a great group of speakers and
panelists at the Glue Conference, an event dedicated to solving the Web
application integration problem-set. This year's theme is th...
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8:15am
Since
Facebook Connect launched in December 2008, over 8,000 websites, mobile
applications and desktop clients have integrated the service. We've
seen sites based around everything from photos to blo...
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 2:14am
After
receiving input from the community and holding a vote, we recently put
into place the new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and
Responsibilities (SRR), which serve as the foundation f...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:37pm
Throughout April, we've been excited to share a mixture of Facebook Platform developer events with our community.
To coincide with the launch of the Open Stream API, Facebook hosted a Technology Ta...
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 5:48am
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve our communication with our
developer community, we offer you our latest monthly roundup of the
announcements, new features, and updates to Facebook Platform t...
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 4:52am
April 2009
Today
we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness
through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we're opening the core
Facebook product experience -- the stream -- with the...
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 9:30pm
With
the launch of the stream, we made some significant improvements to the
Publisher to make it more prominent. The Publisher now appears on a
user's home page so users can easily post content like p...
Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 3:04am
Guest
post by Founders Fund startup investor and geek blogger Dave McClure,
who will be running the fbFund 2009 Incubator Program.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles Duel...
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 2:02am
We've
found that the performance of a website is one of the most important
factors in increasing overall growth and usage. To help developers
increase user engagement, we've released the quick transi...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 11:53pm
For
Facebook Platform developers, the new home page design offers a
powerful opportunity to widely distribute content that users want to
share from your application - whether from a Facebook Connect s...
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:07pm
Guest
post by entrepreneur and blogger Clara Shih, who is speaking at Harvard
Business School and Web 2.0 Expo this week for the launch of her new
book, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Network...
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 11:50pm
The
Facebook Developer Garage program has been growing fast and furiously
through the first three months of 2009. We’ve reached developers across
the world, in communities ranging from the establis...
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 1:17am
March 2009
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve our communication with our
developer community, we offer you our latest monthly roundup of the
announcements, new features, and updates to Facebook Platform t...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 3:34am
Today
we're excited to announce that Adobe and Facebook are working together
to provide official support for building rich social applications in
Flash. An updated version of the ActionScript 3.0 Clie...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 9:30am
Apply now with startup entries for Web & iPhone apps using Facebook Connect
We're thrilled to see thousands of developers creating innovative, engaging, social experiences with Facebook Connect. N...
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 10:31pm
The
goal of Facebook Platform has always been to make the Web more social.
As we have grown, the Web too has expanded to the desktop, and now to
many different mobile devices and platforms throughout...
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 9:26pm
We're
really excited to launch Facebook Connect for iPhone today. Facebook
Connect easily lets developers make their websites and desktop
applications more social. And with the explosion of iPhone ap...
Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10:33pm
Today
we have a crew of Facebookers headed to the live music capital of the
world - Austin, Texas - for South by Southwest Interactive 2009. We look
forward to this event every year because of the div...
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 3:35pm
The
NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness,
officially begins next Thursday, March 19. Building a bracket and
challenging your friends has long been a special activity f...
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 4:20am
We
announced last week that we're improving Feed and Feed forms in order
to give your applications more effective and consistent distribution in
the stream on the new Facebook home page. Today, we’re...
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 3:28am
If
you weren’t able to join us for DEMO 09, we hope you’ll be able to
connect with us in person at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin,
Texas. SXSW is one of the premier interactive conferences w...
Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 3:19am
We're
always looking for ways to help users engage with their friends and
bring them into your application experiences. Today, we're excited to
launch the ability for you to let users initiate Facebo...
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 3:23am
We
wanted to give you some details on what the changes to Facebook Pages
announced today means to you and how your applications can benefit from
them.
The user profile design we launched last year f...
Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 3:20am
We're
excited to announce a preview of our new home page and some upcoming
changes to Feed and Feed forms that will transform the ways users share
and consume information through Facebook. These enha...
Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 1:11am
With
over 175 million users worldwide, Facebook is continuously exploring
new ways to improve our international user experience. We recently
challenged our international community of developers to bu...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:15am
Mark
Pincus is the Founder and CEO of Zynga, one of the leading social game
companies on Facebook. Zynga builds some of the top applications,
including Texas HoldEm Poker, Mafia Wars, and YoVille. We’...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 3:50am
February
was an active month for the worldwide Facebook Developer Garage
program, with four garages held from London to Palo Alto, Chicago and
Toronto. Facebook Developer Garages are local events su...
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 11:51pm
February 2009
As
part of our ongoing effort to improve our communication with our
developer community, we offer you our second monthly roundup of all the
announcements, new features, and updates to Facebook Platfo...
Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 12:28am
Beginning
on March 2, Facebook users across the Web will have the opportunity to
participate in DEMO 09 with Facebook's Live Feed technology, and comment
on the latest class of companies selected to l...
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 5:04am
Earlier
today, we announced a new approach for users around the world to play a
meaningful role in determining the future policies governing Facebook.
As important members of the Facebook community,...
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 3:34am
Conceived
shortly after the launch of Facebook Platform in 2007, the Facebook
Developer Garage program is a community effort to bring the latest
Facebook Platform information and technology to the ba...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 3:55am
Note:
we have released an updated version of the comments plugin.
Since Facebook Connect launched, we've seen over 6,000 developers make
their sites more social using Facebook Connect. One of the mo...
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 6:45am
We’re
looking forward to seeing you at the Facebook Developer Garage Palo
Alto at 6:30pm PST! Even if you’re not in the area, you can follow along
with the action by watching our live UStream social...
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 5:49am
We
launched Facebook Platform to give you the opportunity to create
innovative new experiences for our users, and with that gave you the
flexibility to monetize those experiences in the ways you best...
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 4:47am
Come
join us next Thursday at our Facebook Developer Garage Palo Alto and
hear about some of the latest features on Facebook Platform.
We'll focus on some of our core features around creating Feed...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:36am
Today
we are hosting the OpenID User Experience Summit here at Facebook. We
have product managers, user experience designers, and social Web experts
from a variety of companies such as Google, Yahoo,...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 12:53am
We're
launching several new APIs for Facebook Platform today. These new
interfaces open up access to the content and methods for sharing through
several Facebook Applications -- including Facebook St...
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 5:24am
Enabling
social information to flow through the Web is one of the core goals of
Facebook. In the two months since Facebook Connect became generally
available, over 4,000 sites and desktop application...
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 4:00am
This
year, we’re excited that so many of you are joining us not only on the
Web, but also in person. Our Facebook Developer Garage program aims to
connect local developers so they can share new info...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 12:16am
January 2009
One
of our biggest goals this year is to continue improving our
communication with you, our awesome developer community. One way we hope
to do this is by creating a monthly roundup all of the announc...
Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 2:10am
Today
we are announcing a preview of a major update to FBJS. We're calling
this FBJS2. We've completely rewritten FBJS from the ground-up to make
it much more natural for Javascript developers - now...
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 4:24pm
At
Facebook, we think that photos are one of the most powerful ways to
connect and share with friends. Since 2005, Facebook Photos has given
users a chance to share rich experiences with their frien...
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:45am
Speaking
at a Facebook Developer Garage is a fantastic opportunity for us at
Facebook to connect with our developer community all over the world. At
these Garages we can listen and learn firsthand how...
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 4:37am
Hey
Everyone --This is going to be an intense year for Facebook, and it's
also going to be a big year for what we do with Facebook Connect and
Platform. Our goal is to help people share information an...
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:28am
When
we released Facebook Platform in 2007 to our developer community, our
goal was to enable you to build great social applications that are
integrated with Facebook. FBML was one Platform component...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 10:54pm
Our
JSON parsing engine will change slightly on the 20th of January. This
affects you ONLY if you use FBJSAjax with the JSON responseType, and
your application emits JSON which does not conform to the...
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 8:41am
Integrating
Facebook Connect into your website to add social context is a quick and
easy development process involving a few key features. In the first
video in our Facebook Connect series we showed...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 11:43am
December 2008
We
wanted to take a moment and thank you for all of your great work and
amazing applications that have helped make Facebook Platform the largest
and fastest-growing social platform over the past year...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 4:54am
Invitations
are one of the best ways for users to share applications they love with
their friends. Many developers have told us that this is one of the
biggest ways in which their applications reach n...
Monday, December 22, 2008 at 8:38pm
Since
we released the new profile design, we’ve heard a lot of positive
feedback on the new experience, as well as a lot of feedback on how we
could improve application discoverability and bookmarkin...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 9:17am
We
opened Facebook Connect less than two weeks ago and have been excited
to see over 80 sites go live. In addition to a variety of sites and
several leading publications, you'll see that many major bl...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 4:39am
As
Facebook continues to expand internationally, our Facebook Developer
Garage program does as well. More than half of our Garages, which serve
as a forum to share ideas with local developers, have...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:02am
We've had an incredible week watching the Web become more social and authentic as
sites are get started with
Facebook Connect. Just today CNET launched
their i...
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:27pm
We
have had a great time this week in Paris at the Le Web Conference and
had the chance to meet with industry leaders from all over Europe to
talk and discuss the future of a more social Web through F...
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 6:21am
Last
night, we hosted our first fbFund Demo Day at Facebook Headquarters in
Palo Alto, California. The twenty-five Round 2 fbFund recipients flew in
from as far as the UK and Canada at their own expe...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 6:37pm
We're
excited to announce today the general availability of Facebook Connect,
the next evolution of Facebook Platform. Since May 2007, Platform has
rapidly evolved from 100 early ideas to over 52,000...
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 12:38am
Last
week we headed over to India to kick off a series of all-new Facebook
Developer Garage events. This coming week we are heading over to
Europe's premiere internet conference, Le Web. Last year, Le...
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 1:23am
We’re
excited that developers from all over the world are building on
Facebook, and thrilled when we have the opportunity to meet them. This
past weekend I spoke at the first ever Facebook Developer G...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 1:10pm
We're
always looking for ways to make developing Facebook Platform
applications easier for you. Today we want to show you how we're
improving the way you configure your application settings.
The app...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 5:32am
November 2008
We
know that email can be an important channel for you to use to
communicate with your users. To improve this channel, we've enhanced
application email, letting you provide your users who've opted in...
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:15am
Since
we announced our Application Verification Program yesterday, we've
received quite a few questions about how it works and how it can benefit
you as a developer. We really appreciate all of your f...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 7:56am
As
members of the Facebook Platform developer community, many of you spend
a lot of time thinking about how to create new social experiences that
are valuable to users. We know that you want to make...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 4:31am
We're
in the final stage of our first fbFund competition. Help us choose the
top five teams. Each will be awarded $225,000 in addition to the $25,000
they received in Round 1.
Whether or not you've s...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 12:34am
We
want to help developers ensure that content is delivered only to those
for whom it’s appropriate. Along those lines, at the end of August we
announced the new Demographic Restrictions feature,...
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 2:13am
The
Feed
system is the primary mechanism for sharing information about the
actions users take within your application. Feed stories can be
published in several different sizes, offering users multip...
Friday, November 7, 2008 at 12:23am
We’re
excited for more users to begin sharing and connecting with their
Facebook friends around the Web with Facebook Connect. We wanted to
give you an update since we first announced the availabil...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 2:25am
To
the Facebook Developer Community --Today, our cloud is your cloud. The
leading social platform and the leading enterprise platform have come
together. We're announcing Force.com for Facebook, which...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:14am
October 2008
We
think one of the best things about Facebook Platform is that it
inspires an ecosystem of developers to build creative and timely
applications that provide users with social experiences around the...
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 6:43am
Since
we launched the new profile, we've been looking closely at how we can
continue to improve Feed and Feed stories, in order to encourage more
actions for your applications and your users. Today we...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 10:53am
The
results are in and the waiting is over! We are thrilled to announce
our top 25 recipients from round one of the fbFund Developer
Competition. After poring through and carefully evaluating over...
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 12:00am
September 2008
Developers, we welcome your feedback on a new direction we're thinking with how we communicate with you.
Currently, we have this blog, which provides important announcements and is the "official voic...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:47am
Facebook
and Digg have been working together quite a bit lately on integrating
Facebook Connect into the Digg experience. In two short weeks we'll both
be heading across the pond to London for the F...
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 11:08pm
The
search to identify new talent and the next great applications on
Facebook Platform is well under way! Thanks to everyone who submitted
by the August 29th deadline. Round 1 is now closed with ove...
Friday, September 12, 2008 at 12:31pm
Last
week we announced that we were working on one last feature we were
really excited about to make applications easier to find. We're
referring to it as the applications menu, and you’ll soon be abl...
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 8:16am
Over these past few weeks and months you've been able to see how your
applications work on the new profile and how users are integrating them into
their profiles. Over 30 million people have c...
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 4:02am
Based
on developer requests for greater flexibility and for better
performance, we've added a number of new features for iframe canvas
pages that provide them with much of the functionality previousl...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:28am
August 2008
We're
putting the final touches on Facebook Connect as we speak. And, we'd
like to welcome you to come learn, share, and "connect" with us at the
Facebook Developer Garage Palo Alto - Connect Edition...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 11:51pm
We
have seen an increasing number of complex cases where certain
applications and certain content may be appropriate or available to
specific audiences and users, but not to others. For example, you...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:40am
We’ve
just released some changes to the API that allow your applications to
integrate with Facebook's Events application. These new API calls allow
applications to create, modify, and cancel events, a...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 3:55am
In
response to your requests for more ways to better understand and
visualize the performance of your applications on Facebook, today we are
introducing a whole new set of metrics you can use to monit...
Friday, August 8, 2008 at 2:47am
We've
heard many of your ideas on improving the ways we help users find
applications that are engaging and useful to them. Some recent changes
to the Application Directory are some early steps to inc...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 1:02am
During
out f8 last conference last week, we were excited to release Facebook
Connect to you, our developer community, so that you could start
integrating Facebook Connect into your Web sites ahead of...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8:47am
Round
1 for the fbFund Developer Competition has begun! We are looking to
fund talented developers and entrepreneurs with up to $250,000
non-recourse grants to build great applications on Facebook P...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 4:09am
July 2008
Over the past year, we have been amazed and at times even overwhelmed by
the sheer volume of development on Facebook Platform. During our f8
conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, we shared th...
Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 12:23am
f8
‘08 is here!! It’s gonna be a jam-packed event with something for
everyone, and we’re psyched to welcome folks to the Design Center in San
Francisco in a couple hours.
For those of you around the...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 9:50pm
The
business track is an opportunity for developers to converse with
colleagues and experts from the venture and start-up world. The panels
and talks will be an end-to-end deep dive on building succes...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 7:06am
f8
gives everyone a chance to come together and shop-talk about what folks
have learned over the past year, what's brewing right now, and what the
future of Facebook Platform can and should be. During...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 4:51am
It’s
been over a year since we launched Facebook Platform at the last f8
conference, and we’re excited to see you again this year! We’re looking
forward to chatting with you about what we've all lea...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 12:36am
With
the launch of the new Facebook site comes all sorts of great ways for
applications to deeply integrate into user profiles, and increase
communication and interaction with users. Today we share...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 2:27am
We
are thrilled with the positive response to f8 and wish all of you could
attend. We know that with over 400,000 developers in 160+ countries,
it’s impossible to bring everyone together for a single...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 1:40am
We've
received a lot of feedback ever since we announced that we're changing
how users authorize applications. Since we offered more details last
week, we've made additional changes to make this even...
Monday, July 21, 2008 at 12:41pm
There
are so many great ideas floating around Facebook, but there is never
enough time to implement them all. In order to attempt to solve this
problem, we engineers throw a Hackathon at Facebook ev...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:53pm
The
countdown to f8 has begun! The team here at Facebook is hard at work
getting ready to see you to the San Francisco Design Center for f8 '08,
on July 23. And, we wanted to take some time in the n...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:02am
With
the new profile design preview launching to our users some time this
week, we'd like to call your attention to some new features and
enhancements we've added to Platform.
IFrame Popups. Now you...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 12:15am
As
you may or may not know, f8 '08 has officially sold out! Due to a
continued high demand for tickets we are going to release 100 additional
tickets now. Please register ASAP as this will be the l...
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 6:17am
Next
week, we begin rolling out the new profile design to our users on an
opt-in basis. Every user may not see it at first, but we’ll keep
extending the rollout to more users.
You should continue up...
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 2:11am
We're
getting close to launching the new profile design to our users, and we
wanted to give you a heads up to make sure your applications will be
fully ready by the launch.
Users can start exploring...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 4:02am
Tickets
are selling out quickly for f8 '08, so be sure to purchase yours before
Monday, July 7th at the discounted rate of $150. On July 7th ticket
prices will go up to $250. A limited amount of stu...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 4:03am
June 2008
Privacy
is at the core of Facebook.
Because we provide users with rich privacy controls and respect their
choices, users feel safe using Facebook to share their information with
their friends. By ope...
Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 6:45am
f8
registration is now live!
Please join us at f8 '08 for an awesome day of learning, hacking,
collaboration and diversion. The Platform team is working hard to put
together eight hours of ric...
Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 6:56am
We’re
changing the Feed API method set, which we feel will lead to better
Mini-Feed stories while simultaneously offering many opportunities for
the aggregation of stories for News Feed.
As you alrea...
Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 6:38am
As
you may have seen on the Facebook Profiles Preview Page last week,
we're launching the new profile design in July. We've been going over
all the feedback we've received from our developers as well...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 8:35am
On
May 24th, 2007, we launched Facebook Platform in front of 800
developers and industry leaders. Since our inaugural f8 event, we've
seen the
rapid growth of our developer ecosystem:
400,000+ Dev...
Friday, June 13, 2008 at 5:45am
Hey
Developers! We're excited to be heading out to Graphing Social Patterns
- East next week to deliver a keynote called "Poke Back: Facebook Live
and Interactive." This is a new format we're giving...
Friday, June 6, 2008 at 2:08am
Last
week we announced the changes we're making to simplify how users first
interact with new applications. We've received a lot of questions and
concerns so we'd like to take some time to answer the...
Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 3:36am
Last
week, we at Facebook celebrated the one-year anniversary of our f8
conference, where Facebook Platform was launched. It’s been quite a
year, with over 24,000 applications built on the platform...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 12:27am
May 2008
We've
heard from many users that adding applications is cumbersome, since
they have to make so many choices on the application add page. Users
have expressed concerns about adding an application witho...
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 3:57am
Join the Facebook Platform Team for a live discussion at Graphing Social Patterns East 2008 (in Washington DC)
to discuss the latest Facebook platform technology features and
architecture.
Poke Back...
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 10:20am
Last
week we released our beta sandbox to you all so you can start testing
your applications with the new profile design. By now you've probably
read the integration guide, too, so you have a sense of...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 10:45pm
Last
Monday evening, we staged www.beta.facebook.com with the code we
planned on pushing to the full web tier the following day. We did so
with the intent of giving developers a full 24 hours to con...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 9:42am
As
we promised recently, we've opened up our beta sandbox for the new
profile design. You should have enough time to test the new design with
your applications before we launch it to our users next...
Friday, May 23, 2008 at 3:00pm
As
developers, you’re probably curious about the recent initiatives we and
other companies in the industry have taken to help you build
applications that let users take their information around the w...
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:10am
Since the launch of Facebook Chat, we've received a lot of positive feedback
from users about being able to connect instantly with their friends on
Facebook. With Chat fully launched and growing stea...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 7:27am
Facebook
Platform celebrates its first anniversary this month. We want to hear
what you have to say about Platform, since your contributions have been
instrumental in helping Platform grow as large a...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12:48pm
At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go.
In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their...
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 1:02am
We’re
closing in on the launch of the new profile design. We want to make
sure that we give you enough time to get your applications ready and
take advantage of the new features that will be availabl...
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:12am
As
most of you no doubt have noticed, Facebook Platform has been evolving
at a very rapid pace ever since its release. The result of this
evolution is a constantly growing list of features and functi...
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 1:44pm
April 2008
We
finished rolling out Facebook Chat today. Along with this, we're
excited to announce an important related feature -- real-time
notifications. Just as users can communicate in real time with Facebo...
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 8:12am
As
you have probably noticed by now, we are not launching the updated
Facebook profile in early April, as we mentioned earlier. But we thought
we'd take this time to give you an update as to where thi...
Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 2:37am
As
tax time approaches here in the US, it got us thinking how bad it would
be if the government mandated that everyone do their own taxes. Many
people with small businesses or other complicated tax st...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 1:40pm
The
Reviews application is provided on your application’s About page by
Facebook, as a venue for user comments and ratings. If you’re listed as
a developer on a particular application, you’re technol...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4:23am
On
Friday, we rolled out a feature that allows users to ignore all
application requests from specific friends. We've heard from developers
and users that they feel certain friends seem to be a large...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 3:47am
Like
most large Web sites, Facebook gets a lot of attention from spammers
and other unscrupulous people. Over the last three years, we have
developed many tools to stop this type of activity and prote...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 3:27am
We're
always looking at ways to improve communications with our developer
community. We're in the midst of redesigning the Facebook Developers
Site and want to know what you think of the site, Faceboo...
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 2:49am
March 2008
Adobe
is planning to release a security update for Flash Player 9 next month
(April 2008). Adobe informed Facebook that this update can potentially
break Platform applications that use Flash.
If any...
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 9:53am
To
increase the value of email that applications send to users and to give
users control over what email they want to receive, we are rolling out a
user feedback-based allocation system for email earl...
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 6:17am
The default behavior for an iframe-based canvas page is for it to be "smartsized",
in which the iframe fits the remaining space on the page. This option does not allow
the application its...
Friday, March 14, 2008 at 3:35am
Starting
today, you can serve XML sitemaps off apps.facebook.com domain, and
notify search engines about changes on your pages. Naturally, this works
better for pages that display content without requ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 5:28am
As we move towards the new Facebook profile, one of our major goals is to
improve the quality of feed stories. We want users to have a sense of ownership of their Mini-Feed and trust in the stories...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 1:36pm
Last
week we gave you the first look at how we're changing the Facebook
profile. As we expected, we received some good feedback as well as
requests for more details. Today we're presenting answers t...
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11:54am
As
part of our ongoing quest to improve Platform and communicate openly,
we are going to hold a series of Developer Roundtable events at the
Facebook offices in Palo Alto. You’ll meet the Platform te...
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 3:32am
February 2008
As
we mentioned
the other day, we're setting out to improve our profile design. Our goal
is to make the profile simpler, relevant, and to give users a greater
degree of
control.
Today we're going...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 5:32am
Lately,
Facebook profiles have become slower, more cluttered, and somewhat
difficult to parse. Over the next few weeks, we'll roll out a number of
improvements to the Facebook profile that are going t...
Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 11:01am
Facebook
Platform is an “open market” where developers can freely experiment.
We’re thrilled with the explosion of creativity and the value that’s
been generated for users. We’ll continue to provide...
Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 7:00am
Following
the positive feedback we received after introducing an allocation
system for notifications, we will roll out a feedback-based allocation
system for requests next week. Applications will no...
Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 5:45am
We
at Facebook are committed to fostering a positive environment for
Facebook Platform. As Platform has quickly grown over the past few
months we've noticed that, in order to provide the best experien...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 11:17pm
After
speaking at conferences and talking with developers on IRC, we've
discovered that most developers are excited about our Data Store API,
but are unsure of how to get started. The documentation o...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 10:39pm
The
feedback-based allocation reporting mentioned in last week's developer
blog post is now available under the Insights statistics page. There
are two tabs:
Allocations: Shows the current number o...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 9:49am
Hola!
Yesterday, we announced the release of Facebook in Spanish. We are
really excited to bring Facebook to a whole new set of users in their
native language. In the coming months, we plan to conti...
Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 2:58am
To
improve the Facebook Platform user experience and to reward compelling
applications, we will be rolling out a feedback-based system that allots
notifications in proportion to user response. Applica...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 1:17pm
January 2008
Are
you a ninja developer looking to work with some of the biggest brands
on earth? Are you the head of marketing at one of the biggest brands on
earth looking for a killer developer to take your bran...
Friday, February 1, 2008 at 3:02am
In
an effort to improve how application images are served on the Facebook
Platform, we will be making some changes to the application image cache.
These changes should be seamless for the most part:...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 1:29am
This
JavaScript client library allows you to make Facebook API calls from
any web site and makes it easy to create Ajax Facebook applications.
Since the library does not require any server-side code...
Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 5:33am
Today
we announce a partnership with Amazon Web Services to provide Facebook
Developers with quick and easy setup on AWS' instantly scalable
infrastructure. Through this partnership we have worked alo...
Friday, January 25, 2008 at 1:21pm
Starting
tonight, we are converting Facebook Application About pages to use the
Facebook Pages infrastructure and format. This change enriches
application About Pages and provides additional functiona...
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 12:15pm
The
batch API allows you to combine multiple individual operations into a
single request. This will significantly improve your application latency
and reduce traffic load on Facebook servers. We have...
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 11:10am
As
part of the user experience improvements we announced yesterday, we're
changing the rules for how Feed stories can be published with the
feed.publishTemplatizedAction API method. The new policy m...
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 12:00pm
Since
our launch in May 2007, we’ve been thrilled to see so many creative
uses of Facebook Platform. We’re delighted by the resources developers
have invested, the value they’ve delivered to our comm...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 2:19pm
Back
in September we launched FBJS for Facebook Platform. FBJS is a layer on
top of Javascript that gives you the full power of Javascript in your
applications. FBJS enables developers to create riche...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 4:08pm
We
wanted to give you a heads up about some upcoming changes to the
profile and how your application’s profile boxes will work. As time has
gone on, we’ve received increased complaints from users tha...
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 10:25am
At
Facebook, we care deeply about creating technologies that facilitate
the sharing of information through the social graph in new and
innovative ways. With Facebook Platform, as we iterate, make chan...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 6:34am
December 2007
The
Facebook Platform team is always looking for ways to make your apps
more responsive and simpler to manage. With these two goals in mind,
we're happy to announce several new beta features.
1) Co...
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 1:26am
We are changing the way profile.setFBML works to break out the profile box FBML, profile action FBML, and mobile FBML.
For those using the PHP client library, you'll want to make sure you have the...
Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 3:56am
At
Facebook, we’ve always recognized that social context is an essential
part of providing a great experience for our users, and we’ve wanted our
users to have the best social experience whether they...
Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 1:03pm
We added a new feature to enable referencing FBJS scripts using the “src” attribute
of <script> tag on a Canvas page. This feature is useful for referencing large
FBJS s...
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 1:59am
At Facebook, we're always striving to make a more open environment for
developers while respecting our users' privacy. So far, we've enforced
this by requiring users to sign up for Facebook before be...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 3:13pm
November 2007
A
while ago, we announced that we would be making a change to the canvas
page to prevent applications from displaying information in the Facebook
chrome, outside the canvas portion of the page. The fi...
Friday, November 23, 2007 at 5:37am
As part of our ongoing improvements to News Feed, we recently made it
possible for users to see stories from applications they have not added. To
help us choose the stories that are most interesting t...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 11:57pm
Today
at the Facebook Developer Garage Dallas, we announce a partnership with
Joyent to provide free, fast, and scalable hosting to Facebook
Developers.
Joyent's Accelerator on-demand infrastructure...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 11:32pm
We’ve
heard from many application developers that their pre-existing user
communities include people who aren’t yet on Facebook. We’ve created
special registration links which give your non-Facebook u...
Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 4:24am
Today
we announce Facebook Ads. As a developer, Facebook Ads provides you
with new opportunities to get greater growth for your application with
Facebook Social Ads and to create an entirely new class...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 1:28am
October 2007
If
you look at your applications with the Developer application, you may
notice a new link for each of the applications you own. Next to the
"Edit Settings" link, there is a link to "Feed Templates",...
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 8:47am
In
an effort to provide users more feedback options about the stories
applications publish about them, we have added a new option to the
process of hiding Mini-Feed stories.
For application-published...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 12:37pm
At
Facebook, we care deeply about the future of mobile development. And,
today we are taking an open approach to giving you access to two new
ways to integrate with Facebook Mobile, making it easier t...
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 3:28am
In an effort to continue providing new ways to distribute your applications,
we're making the Application Directory and app "about" pages available to
people who are not logged in. We are also enablin...
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 3:03am
We
expect Facebook Platform to scale quickly in the upcoming years, we are
making some significant changes to support this and thought it would be
important that you know about ahead of time. We want...
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 5:25am
We
will be making a change to the notifications page to
include notifications that have been sent by the user. We are doing this
so that there is more transparency to users about their application
act...
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 4:38am
A
couple weeks ago, we announced a new program called fbFund designed to
encourage developers to build innovative and engaging new applications
by awarding grants to people who are building their busi...
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:01pm
A
few days ago we released API methods for interacting with Marketplace.
The new methods (as described on the wiki) allow applications to search
marketplace by keyword, category, and user. We also a...
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:19pm
Last
night we rolled out some more enhancements to the standardized
FBML-based requests UI. We added a condensed multi-friend-selector
which we think will be a useful alternative way of selecting use...
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 8:29am
We
added a new method tonight:
feed.publishTemplatizedAction
This new method provides a superset of the functionality of
feed.publishActionOfUser, which we will eventually be deprecating. It
allows...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 2:30pm
UPDATE 2/23/2011: See the latest test user documentation.
You can now make officially sanctioned test accounts
Full details are posted on the wiki here:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 3:45pm
September 2007
Tonight
we launched a stats page for applications in our effort to give you
guys more information about how your apps are doing. Currently, the page
displays some basic information about the number of...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 1:23pm
Hey
folks – we’re always working to make Facebook Platform better and more
stable, and we’ve set up a public bug tracking system on our developers
site at http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/.
Ther...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 12:31am
Today we are moving Facebook Javascript (FBJS) out of beta and into version 1.0.
FBJS was built to empower you with the scripting functionality that you need to make your Facebook Platform applicatio...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 1:48pm
As
promised, we're going to start the process of deprecating the
notifications.sendRequest API function. The first phase of this starts
tonight, as we roll out the new <fb:request-form> FBML
t...
Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:50am
August 2007
As
we indicated earlier, today we are introducing new guidelines that will
change how applications are ranked in the application directory.
Currently, the focus is on total number of users, but going...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 1:07pm
At
Facebook we're focused on making Facebook Platform a better experience
for both developers and users. To that end, we're working on some
changes that we're planning to roll out within the coming we...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 6:38am
Over
the last few weeks we have noticed several developers misleading our
users into clicking on links, adding applications and taking actions.
While the majority of developers are doing the right th...
Friday, August 17, 2007 at 3:01am
Today we are making a change that has to do with both technology and the philosophy behind the Facebook Platform.
One of the key parts of the success of the design of the Facebook profile is that...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 10:00am
Hey
folks - We wanted to give you a heads-up that we're designing a new
promotional opportunity that'll give your users who aren't on Facebook
yet a streamlined way to sign up on Facebook and
immediat...
Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 12:19am
July 2007
Developers
- Now is the time to build education applications on Facebook Platform!
Facebook will be phasing out its Courses feature in early August, and
we wanted to make sure you were the first to kn...
Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 5:18am
Congratulations to Trey Philips for winning the Red Bull Flight Experience
Award for most users since the Facebook Platform Launch on May 24, 2007. Trey's app Extended Info has grown to over 130,000...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 1:08am
June 2007
It
has been just over a couple of weeks since the launch of Facebook
Platform, and your response has been tremendous. We are excited to see
so many new developers, new ideas, and new applications comi...
Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 4:00am
May 2007
Facebook has a crew at MIX07 in Las Vegas this year, be sure to contact us if you want to meet up.
Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager is speaking on a panel titled "Social Networking: Enabling t...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4:53am
The
next evolution of Facebook Platform was unveiled this week at the
Facebook f8 developer event at the San Francisco Design Center.
With this evolution of Facebook Platform you can now build the...
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 8:44am
April 2007
Dave
Morin, Senior Platform Manager and Ari Steinberg, Platform Software
Engineer are speaking this week at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The
talk is titled "The Story Behind Facebook's APIs: From...
Monday, April 16, 2007 at 1:05am
March 2007
To
improve the user experience for your application, we've added support
for session keys that don't expire. This means that users will only
have to log in to Facebook once for your application.
If...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 2:26pm
Hey
Developers! We've got a crew here at South by Southwest in Austin,
Texas all week. We'll be hanging out at the festival talking about
Facebook Platform and how to join our developer community....
Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 3:26am
Tonight
we added support for JSON as an alternative output format (just pass
"format=json" to any of the methods). Hopefully this will make parsing
things easier for some of you.
Along with this,...
Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 12:34pm
February 2007
Tonight
we added a photo upload suite to Platform, which for the first time
allows applications to contribute content directly to Facebook.
The suite consists of three new methods:
photos.addTag...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 1:03pm
Last
week we released a whole new version of Platform. On the surface it may
look similar to the old version, but under the hood it is a totally new
implementation. And, starting today you can enjoy t...
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:44pm
Since
launching the Facebook Platform in beta, we have heard some great
feedback on our features from all of you. As we mature the Facebook
Platform to 1.0, we've taken your suggestions seriously and...
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 11:33am
January 2007
We've
built an API Test Console that allows you to interactively experiment
with the methods available in the Facebook API. Now you can see the
functionality the API makes available without writing a...
Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 2:15pm
Tonight
we fixed a bug in the API involving UTF8 encoding. Client developers
are encouraged to look out for changes in the way the API sends out
non-ASCII characters, and developers using a client lib...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 1:05pm
Facebook
is all about reponsibly managing your information, and the Facebook
Development Platform serves to extend a user's Facebook experience to
any outside application, while they have an active se...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 11:39pm
November 2006
As
promised, we have changed the login procedure. This change should
improve your users experience and requires no modifications to existing
applications. Now, if a user was already using Facebook,...
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 1:25pm
October 2006
We’ve
gotten a lot of feedback about the current login procedure, and we
agree that it’s awkward. For applications that have their own login
schema, users have to first login to the application and th...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 1:29pm
We
added a new function, friends.getRequests, which gives you a list of
users who have requested to be the current user's friend. Hopefully
this will be useful to notifier-style applications.
We als...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 1:14pm
September 2006
We've
received lots of great feedback from all of you and made some changes
to the API that we hope you'll like. This round of changes includes:
New fields for users.getInfo: status, wall_count, note...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 2:16pm
If
you're reading this post it means we've officially launched our new
developer portal. This is the beta version and we've been working hard
to provide you with a sweet development platform. If you n...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 6:57am
At
your request, a new convenience method, friends.getAppUsers is now
available. This helps ease the computation on the developer side, and
indicates which data is available from different Facebook u...
Friday, September 15, 2006 at 12:30pm
August 2006
Bunch
of small improvements for you...an improved, sortable Product
Directory, some new community-made sample clients linked up, a
searchable discussion board for the API group, and two requested bits...
Friday, August 25, 2006 at 1:03pm
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