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
After a false start or two, it’s finally beginning to seem like the economy is recovering, and app makers aren’t getting left behind. Seesmic, which deals in social applications, announced this morning that it’s raised $4 million in a new round of funding. The money comes from Salesforce.com and a company managed by Softbank Holdings,
Facebook said today starting July 1st all of its social game developers will have to process payments via Facebook Credits. The Facebook Developer Blog offers more details. “Over the next five months, we will work closely with developers to onboard those who are not yet using Facebook Credits, collect feedback to improve the product, continue
Facebook is now allowing third party application developers to access users’home addresses and their mobile phone number. “Now, shady app developers will find it easier than ever before to gather even more personal information from users, Said Graham Cluey,on the Sophos blog “You can imagine, for instance, that bad guys could set up a rogue
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
Earlier this month Ignite Social Media’s fearless leader Jim Tobin put together a post of the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages for October 2010 that listed Facebook, YouTube and Starbucks as the top three most popular corporate destinations for users. After spending some time looking through the list of Facebook’s heaviest hitters I couldn’t
Developers who were offended at the way Twitter seemed willing to toss them aside should know that Twitter cofounder Evan Williams wants to take a different approach in the future. Williams came close to making an apology yesterday, and indicated that things will change. To start with the matter of change: according to Matthew Ingram,
