Yesterday Facebook rolled out what amounts to one of the biggest overhauls of the pages offering ever. I for one think the update is a major upgrade for businesses and brands using pages, but I know that app makers, custom page designers and people that have been using their personal page for business use are scrambling today.
Developers who make Facebook apps may soon start seeing users spend significantly more money. Late yesterday, two new Facebook Credits features were introduced, and they’re designed to make small transactions painless and to get users’ friends to follow through on purchases of all sizes. With regards to that first feature, a post on the Facebook
Website developers who want to forge a connection with Facebook now have a simpler way of doing so. Yesterday, the social network unveiled a new registration tool that is meant to act as an alternative to Facebook Login/Facebook Connect. Paul Tarjan, a Facebook engineer, explained on the official Developer Blog that the new tool “gives
To some developers, at least, Facebook has quite a draw – the pull a championship sports team might have to an athlete, perhaps. So some developers may be interested to learn what Mike Schroepfer, the vice president of engineering, had to say about the company in a recent interview. One interesting remark related to the
GetJar said today that the Facebook mobile app has been downloaded by more than 100 million people, making Facebook the most downloaded app on a single app store. Using GetJar’s App It link, users are able to download the app which gives them a shortcut to access Facebook’s mobile wbesite with one click from their
Developers who worry that they’ll be affected by the recent Facebook User ID uproar – or who just want to make sure they’ll never run afoul of the giant social network – would do well to learn how the company’s reacted. Facebook outlined its response in a blog post late Friday.
Mike Vernal, an engineer who joined Facebook after spending most of six years at Microsoft, started by writing on the Facebook Developer Blog exactly what will and won’t be allowed in terms of information-sharing from now on.
When it comes to Facebook developers, RockYou’s a big name, almost always managing to stand out among its peers. Only now RockYou will also be aiding other developers as it helps them integrate Deal of the Day in their games.
If you haven’t heard of Deal of the Day (or DOTD, as it’s also known),
As simple and straightforward as the “like” button sounds, Facebook’s just updated it in several ways, and developers should perhaps pay attention. The company even considered the updates worthy of a special post on the Facebook Developer Blog. In the post, engineer Jerry Cain noted that one new feature is “[t]he ability to like canvas
While many, many privacy issues will no doubt crop up, it’s also hard not to argue that aspects of Facebook Places are cool. So developers should be glad to hear that it’s been made available to them via the Graph API. Want to help people find friends who are at the same concert? Help businesspeople
Facebook has updated its SDK for iOS for use with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps. Using the Facebook SDK for iOS, mobile developers can build social apps across to of the most popular mobile platforms. Facebook has added to new features ti make it easier to integrate iOS app: *Use of the Graph API
