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02, Sep, 11

Facebook Roundup: Project Spartan, Lamebook, Privacy Comments, Patents, Bug Bounty, Privacy, Ads and More

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Ad Providers, Ads API, Advertising, AppData, Applications, Apps For Sale, Browser, Business, Comments, Connect, Facebook, Legal, Photos, Security, Video

More Info on Facebook’s Spartan – TechCrunch reported more information about BoltJS, a UI framework designed by Facebook and written in JavaScript that runs in the browser. Apparently it’s part of Facebook’s Project Spartan, which may not be fully revealed until f8. Facebook Settles With Lamebook – Lamebook, a humor site publishing funny Facebook posts, [...]

21, Jul, 11

Facebook Hires Engineers, Licenses Patents From Scrapped Facebook Browser Client Wowd

Posted by Josh Constine, under Browser, Business, Facebook

Facebook desktop and web client developer Wowd has shut down after failing to gain traction, AllThingsD reports. Facebook has hired seven of its former engineers, while several other engineers and Wowd’s founder will form mobile startup called Jildy. Facebook and Jildy have both also licensed several Wowd patents, including ones for social search page ranking [...]

05, Jul, 11

Facebook and LinkedIn Block Apps TOS-Violating Browser Extension and Apps

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Browser, Google, Policy, Recruiting

Late last week, a Google Chrome browser extension called Facebook Friend Exporter received a flood of new interest as Google+ users looked for a way to import their Facebook friends into Google’s social network, Circles. However, since the app collects contact information from Facebook, it violate’s the site’s terms of service, and Facebook implemented a throttling [...]

29, Jun, 11

RockMelt Raises $30 Million Following Facebook Partnership

Posted by Eric Eldon, under Browser, Business, Facebook

RockMelt has upped its bet that there’s a market for social web browsers, announcing a $30 million second round of funding from an all-star list of past and new investors. This comes two weeks after the company launched a version of its browser that tightly integrates with Facebook, thanks to a partnership between the two [...]

14, Jun, 11

Facebook Partners With RockMelt to Outsource Development of Social Web Browser

Posted by Josh Constine, under Browser, Chat, Facebook, Messages

Third-party social web browser developer RockMelt announced today that it has established a long-term partnership with Facebook’s engineering and design teams to build the newly released RockMelt Beta 3 and future products. Along with an improved Chat and integrated Notifications, Requests, and Messages experience, Facebook.com appears differently when browsed through the new version of RockMelt, with elements [...]

29, Jan, 10

Facebook Translates Toolbar Then Open Sources It

Posted by Bilal Hameed, under Browser, Firefox, IE, news, toolbar

Earlier this week, Facebook released an upgraded version of their toolbar for Firefox and IE users. Facebook initially launched their toolbar in 2006, however, back then it was only for english speaking users. The newly released toolbar now supports 16 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simpler versions), Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish (traditional and international [...]

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