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Inside Facebook: Facebook Extends FBML with Custom Tags, Enabling a New Class of FBML Widgets
All Facebook: Facebook Turns Apps Into Widgets With Custom Tags
Mashable!: Facebook Apps Get Custom Tags for Copy-Paste Feature Building
WebProNews Feed: Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
VentureBeat: Custom tags to make Facebook apps faster, more interesting and ubiquitous
Facebook Extends FBML with Custom Tags, Enabling a New Class of FBML Widgets
Inside Facebook —
... Developers interested in checking out the custom tags created by other developers can use the custom tags directory on the Developer wiki. Facebook requests that if you’ve created new public tags, “Please let the community know by adding their documentation to this wiki article.” ...
Facebook Turns Apps Into Widgets With Custom Tags
All Facebook —
... imagine if there was an inauguration application that decided to enable individuals to submit drawings about inauguration. Alternatively “Catbook could enable donations for animal causes using the Causes donation widget,” as Josh Elman told AllFacebook. I’m sure we’ll see new types of cross-application functionality as developers take advantage of the new custom tags feature.
If you’d like to find examples of the custom tags, check out the custom tags directory which will be launching today.
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Facebook Apps Get Custom Tags for Copy-Paste Feature Building
Mashable! —
... For developers, the copy/paste custom tags offer an easy way to add functionality, while for existing apps, offering up your own custom tags could increase your reach. Other custom tags that have already been published include Causes, Graffiti, and Visual Bookshelf. Facebook also ...
Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
WebProNews Feed —
... Yariv Sadan at the Facebook Devloper Blog. "With custom tags, any developer can create new FBML tags. Developers can use these tags in their own applications, or they can share their custom tags with the entire Facebook developer community as pre-built FBML components." In fact, Facebook has a wiki called the Custom Tags Directory for developers to add their apps. So far, it includes entries from applications like ...
Custom tags to make Facebook apps faster, more interesting and ubiquitous
VentureBeat —
... For developers, here’s a custom tags directory that Facebook has created to help get you started. ...
