facebook application development

09, Sep, 11

Secret Whitelist Protects Top Facebook Page Management Tools From Having Posts Hidden in News Feeds

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Facebook, Marketing, news feed, Page Management, Policy, Spam

On Tuesday we published the results of a study indicating that Pages that sync or auto-post their content to Facebook from Twitter or blogs using tools like HootSuite, Twitter, and NetworkedBlogs receive significantly fewer Likes and comments per posts than those that post manually using Facebook’s web and mobile interfaces. This is partly because Facebook [...]

27, Aug, 11

Facebook Roundup: Photo Apps, Video, Movies, AT&T, Pageviews, Places, Credits, Growth and More

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Applications, Apps For Sale, Credits, E-commerce, Events, Facebook, Games, Google, Government, iPhone, Legal, location, Marketing, Photos, Places, Policy, Politics, Privacy, Video

UK Won’t Ban Facebook – Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion met with United Kingdom officials Thursday regarding the social networks’ role in summer riots there. The government ended up not moving to restrict access to the social networks in emergencies such as riots. Facebook Takes Third Spot for Video – Facebook becomes the third [...]

24, Aug, 11

Facebook’s Ad Guidelines Now Permit Offline Gambling, Lotteries, and Dietary Supplements

Posted by Josh Constine, under Advertising, Facebook, Policy

Facebook today announced changes to its Ad Guidelines that permit advertising for several verticals that were previously prohibited. Offline gambling can be promoted, as can online gambling if ads are targeted outside of the US and have Facebook’s explicit consent. Lottery commissions and legal dietary supplements may also be promoted with some restrictions. Ads for [...]

15, Aug, 11

Platform Update: Credits Insights, Platform Policies, App to User Request Messages

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Development, Facebook, graph api, Insights, Metrics, Policy, Requests, social plugins

Amongst a flurry of announcements about changes to games on its platform, Facebook recently updated the Developers Blog regarding the addition of a new Insights analytics tab for Facebook Credits. The latest Platform Update also included announcements about how app-to-user request notifications will now show the notification’s message; new capabilities for the Graph API, activity and recommendation [...]

12, Aug, 11

Facebook Prohibits Promotion of Apps on Competing Social Platforms, Unapproved Soft Offers

Posted by Josh Constine, under Ad Providers, Advertising, Applications, Credits, Development, Facebook, Games, Google, Marketing, Policy, Virtual Currency, VirtualGoods

Facebook has updated its Platform Polices, prohibiting apps from linking to or promote apps on competing social platforms, and from rewarding users with virtual currency, goods, or downloads through a third-party for taking an action. These policy changes, reported by TechCrunch, will prevent developers from directing traffic from their Facebook apps to off-site destinations, or [...]

19, Jul, 11

New Zynga S-1 Docs: Traffic Guarantees From Facebook, but No Canvas Ad Revenue

Posted by Eric Eldon, under Business, Facebook, Monetization, Policy, Virtual Currency

A recent set of updates to Zynga’s S-1 document sheds new light about the company’s business position, as it prepares for an initial public offering. For starters, Google has indeed invested, although the terms were not disclosed. More interesting is the special relationship that Facebook and Zynga have formalized over revenue and traffic, in two developer addendums. (You [...]

07, Jul, 11

Facebook Apologizes For Disabling Apps, Launches New Feedback Metrics, Granular Enforcement, Disabled Mode

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Development, Facebook, Insights, Policy

Facebook today apologized for suddenly disabling certain apps last month, saying that it “over-weighted certain types of user feedback, causing us to erroneously disable some apps”. It has also taken several steps to help avoid issues like this in the future. New feedback metrics and a benchmark for how much negative feedback is unacceptable have [...]

05, Jul, 11

Facebook and LinkedIn Block Apps TOS-Violating Browser Extension and Apps

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Browser, Google, Policy, Recruiting

Late last week, a Google Chrome browser extension called Facebook Friend Exporter received a flood of new interest as Google+ users looked for a way to import their Facebook friends into Google’s social network, Circles. However, since the app collects contact information from Facebook, it violate’s the site’s terms of service, and Facebook implemented a throttling [...]

03, Jul, 11

Zynga’s IPO Means More Visible Feedback for Facebook’s Platform Product and Policy Teams

Posted by Justin Smith, under Credits, Facebook, Monetization, Policy, Virtual Currency, VirtualGoods

Since the Facebook Platform’s launch four years ago in May 2007, the company has made many changes to its Platform APIs and Platform policies that have had significant ramifications for all developers in the Facebook ecosystem. And when Zynga goes public, the temperature of broader market’s perception of ramifications of changes that happen after that [...]

27, Jun, 11

Platform Update: FQL Page_Admin Table Access, Uploading Videos, App Feedback Insights

Posted by Josh Constine, under Applications, Facebook, graph api, Insights, Policy, Video

Facebook’s latest Platform Update to the Developers Blog announced that starting September 22nd, apps will require the manage_pages permission to access the FQL page_admin table and the accounts endpoint that list a user’s Pages and apps. Developers were given their final reminder about the July 1st mandatory migration to Facebook Credits, and informed that new data regarding [...]

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