Piggybacking on Facebook
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One of the first companies to introduce a Facebook application, Snap Interactive is hoping it can stave off the competition.
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An impending update from Facebook will make it possible for you to make your profile look a whole lot neater by hiding excess applications.
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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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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Facebook kicked off the new year with additional tweaks to its development platform as it continues to&#160;grapple with external programmers&#160;who spur adoption of their applications among Facebook members through deceitful and abusive practices.Facebook has been battling this problem since May, when it opened its social-networking site to third-party developers interested in building applications for it.Chief among the annoyances have been self-promotion features in applications such as bulk unsolicited e-mails and intrusive message displays. Although&#160;Facebook has made several changes&#160;in past months, the problems persist.On Jan. 1, a Facebook official made an official blog posting titled &quot;New Year. New Rules&quot; in which he states that some developers have been sneakily bypassing the amount of e-mail notifications applications are allowed to send.&quot;Specifically, these developers have been sending notification e-mails to users for one application with another application, in order to &#39;pool&#39; the total quota of e-mail notifications together,&quot; wrote Dave Morin, Facebook&#39;s senior platform manager.In addition, other applications have been designed to trick Facebook members into inadvertently installing other applications by placing links into e-mail messages, internal notifications and the Mini-Feed feature in member profiles.&quot;Starting today, we&#39;ll begin blocking links in Mini-Feed, Notifications, and Notification E-mails which lead to the installation of another application in the hopes that developers focus on user experience and engagement being paramount, not deceiving users for the sake of growth,&quot; Morin wrote.&#160;
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A report coming from the Inside Facebook blog today details three new features that may be making their debut in the first few months of 2008.
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Facebook Inc. is offering to pay up to $250,000 to software developers who create applications that help make its rapidly growing online social network an even more compelling Internet hangout.
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Fingers all tired from typing Web addresses from Bebo to Zebo to hit all your social networking and media sharing sites?
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Serves up ads for deceptive security software Facebook has become the latest website to be found pushing services that deliver highly deceptive security warnings designed to trick users into buying software.â¦
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By Emily Bregel, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 8--For the uninitiated, it may be hard to comprehend the fervent reaction to Facebook. com's recently added "news feed" feature, a real-time update system that displays all changes made to a friend's profile on the site's home page.
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The matter of Scoble vs. Facebook is not about either. It's about the deeper choice we face in all the relationships we choose on the Net: the choice between dependence and independence. read more
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Stop the word verification madness From time to time we capture word verification silliness for posterity. It's been a while, but we've got another for you, this time from Facebook - and this time it ain't so silly.â¦
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Facebook has made a move to allow applications created on its site to run on other Web sites.The social network&#39;s new JavaScript client library, released on Friday, ends the restriction that prevented developers from running Facebook applications on other Web sites, the company announced.&quot;Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any Web site that serves static HTML,&quot; wrote Facebook&#39;s Wei Zhu on the company&#39;s developers blog.Nick O&#39;Neill, a blogger at All Facebook, noted that Facebook&#39;s move to let developers extend its platform to outside sites is a significant one for the company.&quot;The public is now aware of the possibilities to leverage Facebook outside of the main site and that is big news,&quot; he wrote. &quot;Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook, you can now extend the full functionality of the platform to your own Web site and leverage Facebook as the tool for managing members and their relationships. Want to build your own social gaming platform that resides on your own Web site but leverages the power of users&#39; Facebook relationships? Now you can!&quot;Sean Aune, a blogger at Mashable, noted that the move means that Facebook applications &quot;could possibly start popping up on ordinary Web sites and blogs any day now.&quot;Aune added that Facebook is looking to stem criticism for being like a &quot;walled garden in that things do go in but nothing comes out. It would appear that they made the first step last night in &#39;coming out&#39; as it were. Web apps will be able to use cookies to track the users when they are using the app in other places on the Internet. So, in theory, you could play a game on any site and your stats will still be tracked.&quot;Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Wildly popular Facebook application is in hot water for similarity to classic board game. But could it be a marketing treasure trove for Scrabble's trademark holders?
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By RACHEL METZ  NEW YORK - Fingers all tired from typing Web addresses from Bebo to Zebo to hit all your social networking and media sharing sites?  Daniel Graf believes he has an all-in-one solution - one you can put in your pocket.
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Facebook will help other social networking sites to run applications developed for its own software platform, it said Thursday.
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Facebook's application platform could be the next battleground in the privacy wars. Will Facebook fold and finally respect user privacy?