As Facebook continues to review and approve new Open Graph actions, the social network announced a number of changes affecting developers working on the platform. Action specs – The Ads API now allows developers to create Featured Stories (previously called … Continue reading →
Developers can now request permission to access lists of users’ subscribers and who they subscribe to via the Graph API. Facebook announced this and a few other changes in a blog post Wednesday. With read permissions for subscriptions, apps can … Continue reading →
Facebook added the option to write structured question posts through the Graph API on Friday. Applications can now ask Facebook Questions on behalf of users or pages that authorize them to do so. This is particularly useful for page management … Continue reading →
Facebook’s latest platform update includes infinite scrolling for the apps and games dashboard and API support for News Feed filters. The company also announced it will require all apps to include a an email address for user support starting April … Continue reading →
Facebook’s latest platform update includes improved insights for websites, a change in how some app stories are published to Timeline and a few breaking changes. Insights for websites now tracks and report referrals to the underlying URL from a bit.ly … Continue reading →
The previously announced removal of Reviews and Discussions from application profile pages has now gone into effect. The removal of Reviews mainly affects developers that solicit reviews for their apps, such as game developers fishing for a five-star rating. By … Continue reading
Facebook has made several developer-focused announcements over the past few days, including that it has released more free tickets to its Mobile Hack event at Facebook headquarters this Friday. This will give more developers the opportunity to learn about building … Continue reading
Echo Nest Points Out Flaws in Facebook Music – The CEO of Echo Nest, a music industry service provider, published a blog post this week outlining technical problems with Facebook’s music sharing system. It criticizes errors in how Facebook IDs … Continue reading
Sparapani Leaves Facebook – Tim Sparapani, one of Facebook’s initial Washington, D.C. hires, unexpectedly left as director of public policy this week. Mail.ru Stock Could Be Down for a While - Mail.ru stock has taken a beating in the stock market and some speculate that this could be a permanent move. BranchOut, CareerBuilder Partner Up – [...]
Yesterday, Facebook announced updates to the Requests 2.0 including the introduction of frictionless requests that don’t require users to complete a Requests dialog. This could get users to send more Requests, helping apps gain new users and reengage existing users. However, some users might opt in to frictionless requests without fully understanding the feature’s implications, [...]
