Today Facebook officially announced the option for allowing users to completely opt-out of the Facebook Platform and prevent applications from gaining access to their information. While many developers are rightfully concerned about the feature, we’d like to take the opportunity to thoroughly address how the new “opt-out button” functions and what it will mean [...]
Today marked the third anniversary of the Facebook Platform but the day has been overshadowed by an ongoing privacy fiasco which has forced the company to redesign their privacy settings. While analysis of the privacy situation varies from person to person, it’s easy to forget the impact that the Facebook Platform has had in [...]
For the past ten days, Facebook has stopped updating application statistics. That means all leaderboards (including our own) based on Facebook’s statistics have stopped updating and developers can’t track how their application, or competing applications are performing. While we’re assuming that the statistics will get updated shortly, this is probably the longest period [...]
Earlier this afternoon, Facebook announced changes to the multi-friend selector within applications which enables users to invite contacts directly from their address book. The benefit developers is that any new users that register for Facebook will have the application from which their friend invited them to the site, bookmarked by default. This provides [...]
Earlier this afternoon, Facebook announced changes to the multi-friend selector within applications which enables users to invite contacts directly from their address book. The benefit developers is that any new users that register for Facebook will have the application from which their friend invited them to the site, bookmarked by default. This provides [...]
Facebook’s decision to kill notifications has had lasting effects on developers, effectively killing most virality for the application Platform (although there are still plenty of applications growing through feed optimization). The other major change that developers have been preparing for is the shift of requests from the homepage to the inbox. Now Facebook [...]
Just when you thought Zynga was preparing to take the leap and leave Facebook permanently, the two companies have announced a formal “long-term relationship”. While terms of the agreement were not disclosed, we can make some pretty good guesses as to what took place behind closed doors. For those that haven’t been following [...]
There have been a bunch of rumors about Zynga leaving the Facebook Platform over the past week. The story has been watched closely by developers who are also feeling the tightening grip of Facebook, however no source has painted such a dramatic picture as Fox News. In an article this morning, Fox states, [...]
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 [...]
“Who uses Facebook apps?” was a question posed to me over the weekend while out for a night on the town in Chicago. Unfortunately, this has become an increasingly common question among many of my friends. While Facebook application use was ubiquitous when the platform launched almost three years ago, anecdotal evidence would [...]
