developers.facebook.com - 1/13/2009
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When we released Facebook Platform in 2007 to our developer community, our goal was to enable you t...
obsessable.com - 1/13/2009
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obsessable.com —
While Facebook has seemed like king of the
social networking sites for a while now , boasting...
the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year . The past year has seen a steady increase in
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Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this ...
insidefacebook.com - 1/14/2009
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insidefacebook.com —
A week after the Whopper Sacrifice application made
waves for its creative use of Facebook friend removals...
as a way to spread the application, Facebook has forced it to disable the app, according to the developer. Facebook has clarified that it has ...
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Whopper Sacrifice Forced to Disable Behavior by Facebook ...
techcrunch.com - 1/13/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience
are out. The first thing we checked? How the...
major social networks are doing. Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2008, is still playing catch up to MySpace in the ...
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Social Networking: Will Facebook Overtake MySpace In The ...
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Facebook Makes Its Markup Extensible
ReadWriteWeb —
... Facebook announced a major change today to the proprietary language that all Facebook apps are written in; it will now be made extensible with custom tags that can be shared across applications. The feature will initially be available only on site but will eventually be rolled out to all Facebook Connect supporting sites around the web. We're excited about it but wonder how open it will truly be. ...
Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
WebProNews Feed —
[image] And Lets Them Share with Each Other Today Facebook announced "custom tags" for developers for use with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) applications. FBML is the language used to create the Facebook apps you have come to know and love. "Initially, FBML included only tags that Facebook created," explains 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 to make Facebook apps faster, more interesting and ubiquitous
VentureBeat —
Facebook is now letting third-party application developers create their own snippets of code, called “custom tags.” These tags can used to make an application run faster or used to build features from one application into another application — a game app could use these tags to integrate a song from a music application, for example. Facebook also plans to further develop these tags for Facebook Connect, a service that lets third-party sites do things like let users sign in and comment using their Facebook identities. One day, these sites could embed Facebook applications as widgets, using the social identity ...
Facebook makes a major change to its code
TG Daily - All News —
Palo Alto (CA) - Today, in a blog post , Facebook announced major changes to the proprietary language in which Facebook applications are written, called Facebook Markup Language (FBML). The code will now be capable of being edited using custom tags which can be shared between multiple applications. Currently, the feature is only available on the site, but it will eventually be shared with all of the Facebook Connect supporting sites on the web. Effectively this means Facebook will now be more open. But the question is, how open? FBML was designed to make sure that malicious applications would not be able to infect the browsers and PCs of ...
Facebook opens up its markup language (sort of) (not really)
The Open Road —
... On Tuesday Facebook announced that it has made the Facebook Markup Language extensible, enabling developers outside of Facebook to create custom tags. For example, the iLike application developers have provided ...
Facebook opens up its markup language (sort of)
Webware.com —
... Facebook on Tuesday announced that it has made the Facebook Markup Language extensible, enabling developers outside of Facebook to create custom tags. ...
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