readwriteweb.com - 1/13/2009
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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 ...
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 ...
dialaphone.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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dialaphone.co.uk —
Facebook is one of the top social networking
websites with more than 140 million active users, each...
with an average of 100 friends and 13 million which update their status daily. Founded in 2004 and with an Alexa traffic rank of 5, this level of ...
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INQ 1 : The Ultimate Review | Dedicated to Facebook | Dial-a
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Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
WebProNews Feed —
... Custom tags are only available internally within Facebook, but will soon become available for sites integrated with Facebook Connect. Of course questions of security are bound to come up. "FBML, or Facebook Markup Language as it's called, was intended to ensure that malicious apps couldn't inject nasty code into the browsers of users," writes Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web. "We assume that the new markup will have security taken care of by server side processing and this could enable an explosion in feature sharing and code efficiency." Assuming that Facebook has ...
Facebook opens up its markup language (sort of)
Webware.com —
... This is a great step forward, but it's also a highly limited one, as ReadWriteWeb points out. To be highly reusable and, hence, more useful, Facebook should consider exposing its markup code to developers so it can be "more easily altered for reuse in different ways by different apps." ...
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