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The ‘App Economy’ Has Led to 466,000 New Jobs in the US in Four Years

We all know developers are hard at work to create our favorite apps. With over 500,000 apps currently on the iTunes App Store alone, there is sure to be a ton of developers that need to create these apps, and make a living in doing so. According to a new report released today from TechNet, the [...]

Facebook Announces Android SDK Beta To Broaden Mobile Support

Facebook today announced the launch of the beta version of the Facebook SDK for Android, which they also demoed at Google I/O last week. This is hot on the heels of the news that the Android platform is picking up steam and in fact outpaced the iPhone platform in sales last month. It [...]

Android Gets Facebook Graph API Before the iPhone

Facebook announced new mobile social networking functionality for the Android platform this week. At Google I/O, Google’s developer conference, executives routinely made fun of Steve Jobs and Apple, but Facebook’s role in the drama was overlooked by the press. Facebook’s mobile development team soft launched a Facebook SDK for [...]

Facebook Adds Articles To Open Graph Protocol

Yesterday Facebook posted an update which resolved confusion from a number of developers who realized that there was no “article” object within the Open Graph protocol. Facebook also removed one statement from the Open Graph “best practices” area which stated that “users don’t want news articles and other transient content as objects on their [...]

Facebook Like Plugin For WordPress Released

Want to instantly add Facebook’s Like button to your Wordpress blog? No need to worry about dealing with Facebook’s upgraded JavaScript SDK or anything else. You can simply install the new Wordpress Like plugin and get up and running in only a couple of clicks. The new plugin works with both XFBML [...]

Facebook Limits Status Updates To 420 Characters

While Facebook is not a company known for pot jokes, the company has decided to limit status updates posted through applications to 420 characters, in contrast to Twitter’s 140 character limit. The status message length was confirmed via a quick post published by Facebook this afternoon, notifying developers of changes to the stream.publish API [...]

Facebook Releases New Migrations Tool For Developers

Are Facebook’s “fixes” actually breaking your application? If they are, you no longer need to deal with the pain of implementing new code changes the minute Facebook rolls out a change. Today Facebook announced a Migrations tool which gives “developers control over when to integrate new Platform features or bug fixes.” It’s [...]

Facebook Introduces Yet Another Open Source Project: XHP For PHP

On the heel’s of Facebook’s announcement of HipHop for PHP — their “source code transformer” of the PHP scripting language which many Facebook applications are built upon — comes XHP, an extension to inline XML. The full impact of using XHP is still to be determined, Facebook’s Marcel Laverdet says that this makes “front-end code [...]

Facebook Developers Site Goes Down

Facebook has been having a few platform reliability issues over the past 48 hours, but the latest hits Facebook’s “Live Status” page which lets developers know the status of the platform. Navigating to the Live Status page currently returns an error which says “This webpage is not available.” While I’m sure Facebook is [...]

Facebook App Developers Turn To Third Party Ad Managers For User Acquisition

One of the more popular ways for Facebook application developers to drive traffic to their applications is through the use of Facebook advertisements. With relatively low CPMs, it’s often more cost effective than traditional cost per install campaigns as the users are also targeted based on profile data. Today TBG, the company behind [...]