facebook application development

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, [...]

02, Sep, 11

Microsoft, Yahoo, TripAdvisor, Yelp and VEVO Now Among Largest Facebook Applications

Posted by Eric Eldon, under AppData, Applications, Connect, Facebook

The Facebook platform is best known for social games, but another class of applications has been on the rise in the past couple years: integrations of Facebook features by large media and tech companies into their own properties. They are now among the largest applications on the platform. Most notably, companies like Microsoft and Yahoo [...]

22, Aug, 11

Featured Facebook Campaigns: Dunkin’ Nation, UNO, Notruf Deutschland, “The Big Lebowski” and Publishers Clearing House

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Advertising, AppData, Applications, Connect, Email, Facebook, Marketing, Page Management, Pages, Video

Credits, free money and fear were used by different brands this week to attract more Likes, customers and promote brand loyalty. Dunkin Donuts, UNO and Publishers Clearing House lured users with free money while the German crime show Notruf Deutschland utilized a user’s profile to instill fear in them. Finally, Milyoni’s new Social Theater app [...]

03, Aug, 11

Katango’s Web App Auto-Creates Friend Lists and Exports Them to Facebook

Posted by Josh Constine, under Connect, Facebook, Google

Last month, Katango launched a mobile messaging iPhone app built on a game-changing technology — the ability to analyze characteristics about your Facebook friends and automatically sort them into clusters such as co-workers, best friends, or college housemates. Today Katango releases a Connect web app that allows users to export these clusters to Facebook as [...]

25, Jul, 11

Video Privacy Protection Act Delays US Launch of Netflix Facebook Integration

Posted by Josh Constine, under Connect, Facebook, Video

The Netflix Q2 earnings report released today noted that the video rental and streaming company will soon launch a Facebook integration, but only in Latin America and Canada, not the United States. This because the Video Privacy Protection Act prohibits the disclosure of a citizen’s rental history and genre preferences without written consent. A bill [...]

15, Jul, 11

Report: Facebook Working With News Publications to Offer App-Based “Facebook Editions”

Posted by Eric Eldon, under Applications, Connect, Credits, Facebook

Facebook has been successfully pushing the Like button and other features to media companies in recent years. But now it is busy working on a special project with around a dozen major news outlets to create “Facebook editions” of their publications within its home site, Forbes reports. The report describes these new Facebook editions as [...]

08, Jun, 11

CrowdMob’s Mafia Location Game Harnesses Facebook Places to Drive Downloads

Posted by Kim-Mai Cutler, under Applications, Connect, Facebook, Games, location, Mobile

Even though Facebook likely has around 700 million users now, it actually isn’t often that we hear the social network is a major driver for user acquisition in mobile gaming — at least compared to FreeAppADay or having an inside connection to Apple. But a veteran team from the social gaming world is trying to [...]

21, May, 11

Facebook Roundup: IPO, Privacy, Like Button, Eventbrite, Acquisitions, Winklevoss Bros, Baseball and More

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Applications, Business, Connect, Data, Facebook, finance, Government, Legal, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, Page Management, Pages, Policy, Politics, Privacy, Social Media Monitoring, social plugins, Venture Capital

Facebook IPO “Inevitable” – Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg said this week that a Facebook IPO is “inevitable.” [Image via Facebook] Facebook, Others Oppose California Privacy Bill – A proposed bill in the California legislature, SB 242 the Social Networking Privacy Act, would change the information that companies like Facebook could provide about users under 18. Facebook [...]

16, May, 11

Featured Facebook Campaigns: Corona & MTV, Rue La La, Hotels.com, Wheat Thins and Nook

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Advertising, Applications, Business, Connect, Facebook, Marketing, Metrics, Pages, Video, Wall

Users take the stage this week as we look at how brands are reaching out to customers on Facebook. Corona & MTV put the prizes in the hands of users, asking them to name their dream experience while Nook asked users to share why they love reading. Rue La La asked users to vote on [...]

22, Apr, 11

Facebook Canvas Apps vs Facebook Connect for Websites: A Quick Guide to What’s Best for You

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Connect, Facebook, Open Graph, social plugins

Facebook offers two parts of its platforms for developers, brands, and media publishers to build on. One is the Facebook canvas — the pages on Facebook.com where apps are located — and the other is Facebook Connect, the catch-all name for a variety of ways to integrate Facebook off the site. We’ve written out a [...]

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