Submitted by robdiana
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A good article by Brad Stone at the NY Times entitled “Facebook aimes to extend its reach across the web”. Brad talks about Facebook Connect:Facebook Connect, as the company’s new feature is called, allows its members to log (Read More)
Submitted by pauldunay
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Originally announced this summer at Facebook’s f8 developer conference, Facebook today is formally launching its Application Verification program designed to certify applications that adhere to Facebook’s guiding principles a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook announced this afternoon that the company will now offer more high-profile placement for applications that are verified as trustworthy and pay an application fee for the honor. The biggest problem with Facebook apps (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last month, Facebook doled out $25,000 to 25 different groups that are building applications on its developer platform. In December, Facebook will award an additional $250,000 to 5 of them, and today the social network is la (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Slide founder Max Levchin just kicked off a panel called “The Platform Advantage” at the Web 2.0 Summit. Participants include Google’s Vic Gundotra, Microsoft’s David Treadwell, MySpace’s Amit Ka (Read More)
Submitted by jeffpaul
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I recently attended SNAP Summit3 in San Francisco on October 28th and was hoping to get a gauge from the social networking industry on the current and future prospects of applications on social networks. The morning sessions (Read More)
All Facebook:
Today Adknowledge, the parent of Cubics.com, has announced that they’ve acquired Adonomics. Adonomics tracks application traffic on a historical basis for developers and has been growing since its launch soon after the (Read More)
Submitted by kepp
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Over the past few days I've been mulling over the recent news from Yahoo! that theyare building a Facebook-like platform based on OpenSocial. I find this interestinggiven that a number of people have come to the conclusion th (Read More)
Submitted by robdiana
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A few months back, Yahoo! announced that it would be opening up the site’s services to developers in a significant way. This afternoon the company rolled out a big iteration which has a massive social component. The service (Read More)
Submitted by digiphile
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Justin Smith via Inside Facebook shared by 6 people October 28 must have looked good on the PR calendar. A year and a half after the Facebook Platform launched to hundreds of indie developers and entrepreneurs in (Read More)
All Facebook:
Over the past few weeks there has been some debate going on about the overall impact of the new Facebook design. Scott Rafer declared the Facebook platform dead earlier this week. I had previously posted numbers suggesting (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In good times everyone wants tobe a platform. But when times are bad and platforms are just an expense, the resources suddenlyshift away. The recent re-design of Facebook, the slow down of Google's Open Social, and Flock cl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The bad blood between Facebook and Google may go deeper than anyone has really realized to date. The spat became public earlier this year when Facebook banned Google’s Friend Connect, theoretically over security issues (Read More)