Facebook launches Spanish version of website
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Facebook on Thursday unveiled a Spanish version of its hot social-networking website and promised French and German language editions by spring.
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The rapid evolution of social-networking sites now will feature a competition among platforms, with the announcement on Thursday that Facebook will make its platform available to other sites.
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One of Europe's largest social  networking sites, Passado.com, said on Tuesday it had raised 10  million euros ($13.2 million) as it plans to expand into  Britain, Russia and Italy.
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Following Facebook's lead, the social networking site plans within the next few months to make an API for its platform available for anyone looking to build applications to run atop the site.
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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social-networking identities.
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The DeveloperTutorials website has a new tutorial posted that walks the reader through a step-by-step process to create a PHP Facebook application of their very own.   Everyone is talking about Facebook and their new Application Platform and I have to admit I think it's pretty cool too. So I decided to create an application that uses the Facebook Platform. I'm writing the application in PHP and I thought it might be useful for others to know how to write their own Facebook applications with PHP.   They show you where you'll need to go to set up an ID with Facebook to develop with, the developer application you'll need to add, where to grab the Facebook developer API and, finally, creating a simple application.   Their example is just of the "Hello World" sort, but it gives you a good foundation to start from. They also include pointers to the Facebook Markup Language and a reference for the Facebook REST-based API interface.
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Social networking site Facebook has just opened up its doors to the web's million-plus web application programmers. At a San Francisco launch event Thursday, the company debuted its new application framework that lets outside developers write programs to run on Facebook's website.
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Facebook.com took the wraps off  on Thursday of its highly anticipated makeover from a  members-only club into what it hopes can become a kind of  software operating system for Internet media of all sorts.
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Â¿No hablas inglÃ©s? Haz click aquÃ­ Photo-sharing outfit Flickr yesterday announced it was finally addressing the issue of non-English-speaking users by launching new versions in seven major languages, Reuters reports.â¦
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Adds photo-sharing to its panoply of services Google continued its attempts to offer every service imaginable online by purchasing a Spanish photo-sharing website.â¦
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Following the announcement by Facebook that it would make its platform available to other sites, the application-sharing environment for social networking is moving quickly and picking up steam.
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Research In Motion Ltd. today launched its faster, more optimized Facebook application for Blackberry, at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show in San Francisco.
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Facebook wants to make its members' profiles portable, get a handle on software developers, launch ad platform.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd has launched Facebook software designed especially for its smartphones to make it easier for users to browse the popular social networking Web site.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Fattah for Mayor Exploratory Committee has redesigned its website -- http:// www.phillyforfattah.com -- and will soon unveil several videos translated into Spanish.
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Facebook application developers who already know PHP can be happy about a recent announcement on their blog - the introduction of PHPEmbed library into their setup (as well as a release of it out to the public).   In order to make embedding PHP truly simple for all of our developers we developed the PHPEmbed library which is just a more accessible and simplified API built on top of the PHP SAPI. The library is so useful, we decided to share it with the world. Check it out for yourself at http://developers.facebook.com/phpembed/   The library (currently in release 20070924) can be grabbed either directly from their download link or via the public svn repository they've set up. There's also some documentation and help for it in the form of a developer's group and the manual (PDF/HTML).
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Facebook will help other social networking sites to run applications developed for its own software platform, it said Thursday.The company already encourages developers to build applications that work with its site, publishing details of the tags and APIs (application programming interfaces) needed to exchange data.Now it plans to license those details for use by other social networking sites and platforms, according to the Facebook Developers blog . The idea is that developers will only have to write their widget or small application once if there is a common platform for structuring how the applications integrate with sites.The initiative runs in parallel with Google&#39;s OpenSocial project, which revolves around creating standard APIs (application programming interfaces) for social networking applications. APIs let applications exchange information and are crucial to building programs that, for example, take information from Facebook profiles and blend it with some new functionality or feature.Facebook already has a taker. On Wednesday, social networking site Bebo said it would use Facebook&#39;s standards for its own Open Application Platform. Bebo isn&#39;t taking sides, however: it will eventually support Google&#39;s OpenSocial too, it said.MySpace, the largest social networking site, has also said it will support OpenSocial.Facebook said its architectural platform is composed in part of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) related tags and methods for building applications.It published details of FBML , its set of tags for formatting data exchanged between applications and users. Some of the tags enable developers to build programs with the same design elements as Facebook&#39;s site, so the application blends in.External developers have created about 7,000 applications since Facebook opened up its site in June. The applications have offered a commercial opportunity for developers, although Facebook has been under fire for how those programs respect users&#39; privacy.Google&#39;s OpenSocial platform got off the ground last month with Plaxo&#39;s Pulse, the first application to use the APIs. Pulse, which aggregates and delivers new information from social networking and other Web sites, is a feature of Plaxo&#39;s Web-based address book service.&#160;