If you are going to build an application on Facebook, you’d expect that users will be able to access your application as long as it’s developed properly, but unfortunately Facebook’s reliability has not been at its peak recently. Yesterday the company posted that they were “investigating issues that may be causing some Platform apps [...]
With Facebook integrating location based services into their platform in the coming months, many are wondering how the new service will be implemented. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that Facebook will definitely be enabling services like Foursquare and Gowalla, rather than competing with them directly. From the sound of things, Facebook’s implementation could [...]
One application that has been surging over the past week despite Facebook killing off notifications is Friend FAQ, an application that asks you random questions about your Facebook friends. The quiz idea behind the application has been used multiple times in the past, however this one has grown to be a big through an [...]
Just over 24 hours after Facebook turned off application notifications, developers are reporting a dramatic decrease in traffic. Speaking to a number of developers, we’ve heard traffic has decreased in the range of 10 to 50 percent, depending on the application, most hovering between an 18 to 27 percent decrease. While our poll [...]
Monday is the day that application notifications will finally be removed from the Facebook platform. While some developers are on edge, as they are concerned about the negative impact that the loss of notifications will have, Facebook is providing developers with advice on how to adjust. The primary piece of advice is to [...]
This morning Facebook was awarded a patent for the “resource management of social network applications”. The patent describes a method in which resources are allocated to applications based on the affinity toward those applications expressed through various forms of interactions. While components of the patent have been made irrelevant by upgrades to the [...]
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 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 [...]
One week ago we wrote about a new dashboard privacy flaw that exposes users’ application activities. While it isn’t a major issue yet as the new design hasn’t been rolled out to all users, Facebook is in the process of rolling out their new homepage design to a large (unknown) number of users. [...]
This afternoon Nick Gianos posted about the revised Facebook terms “for all ad and offer providers and related services that operate on the Facebook Platform”. It’s a subtle change over the existing ad terms but it appears to be a step toward Facebook monitoring more of the activity on the Platform. The new [...]
