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Apps and games in particular have proven hugely popular on Facebook. In turn, they helped the site grow larger and made people come back more often and stay longer. But, even with notifications and various other methods of viral spread available to developers, games and apps have always been relegated to their own pa... |
26 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Game of Thrones proves to be one of the most popular TV shows of the moment, and not just with pirates. And what's the best thing to do when you have a popular franchise? Well, milk it for all its worth, obviously. Incidentally, there's now going to be a Game of Thrones Facebook game. There's no short... |
22 May 2012
09:43 GMT |
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The old adage knowledge is power is as true as ever especially as knowledge becomes more abundant online. While it may seem that more knowledge available to more people means a more equal distribution of "power," the key is understanding all that knowledge, or better said information, and knowing how to use it to you... |
14 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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The most popular game in the world is coming to the most popular platform in the world. Yes, Angry Birds is coming to Facebook, on Valentine’s Day no less. Considering that Angry Birds pretty much runs on everything these days, including the oldest platform of them all, the 'real world,' thanks to all... |
26 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Facebook has made good on its promise and is expanding the recently debuted mobile app platform beyond iOS to Android, with the launch of the latest version of its Android app.
Android and web developers now get the same features and capabilities that they do on the iPhone and iPad with the added benefit that they c... |
8 December 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Facebook has finally did it, after months of speculation and rumors, it launched its Facebook app and, more importantly, it debuted its mobile app platform.
It's been a long journey up to this point, though Facebook wouldn't let it known. A great battle between Facebook and Apple was waged behind closed ... |
11 October 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Facebook is moving to add full HTTPS support for its site and this means third-party app maker have to fall in line as well. The deadline for adding a secure URL option as well as OAuth 2.0 support for Facebook apps was October 1st.
With that gone, Facebook is now moving to clean up and enforce the new rule by mak... |
5 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Facebook has great ambitions, it doesn't want to be just another site, it wants to be another web. It wants people spending all of their time inside Facebook, whether it's listening to music, watching movies, or playing games and everything else.The music and movie part it's already got covered, with t... |
30 September 2011
16:11 GMT |
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With the economy looking the way it does, there's no surprise that people will cling on to any sign of hope. And when studies show up saying that Facebook is doing a better job at creating new jobs than the US government and that the site, specifically its platform, alone is responsible for creating perhaps more... |
20 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Facebook is a great platform for developers, they can write their apps using web technologies, or a coding language of their choice, and have it up and running on the site in no time.
The only snag in the process is the hosting, developers need to run their own apps on a server somewhere. For a developer just star... |
16 September 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, Facebook is making some big announcements for games on the platform, at the very same time Google revealed Google+ Games. Facebook has unveiled a number of features that should make games more engaging and make it easier for developers to reach new users.One big new feature is the... |
12 August 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Facebook is making a couple of changes to the way developers can get their apps in front of users. The first is dropping the current App Directory, which sees little use. The second is to make it easier and more direct to submit an app to the Facebook search engine.
"Many developers have been confused about what i... |
13 July 2011
09:42 GMT |
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In the past few weeks, Facebook cranked its spam busting algorithm up a notch. It turns out it was a notch too many, as plenty of app developers complained about getting banned and having their apps deleted without any prior warning.
Facebook has acknowledged this and apologized for the problem. It is also issuing... |
8 July 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Facebook's app platform is one of its biggest assets, it enabled the site to provide a field for third-party developers to enhance Facebook, making it more appealing to its users. But with such a large user base, the platform is very appealing to those that would abuse it, as well. Given the number of applicatio... |
27 June 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Facebook is working on something big. In fact, it seems to be working on several big things, all related to the mobile space. First came the news that it was working on its own photo-sharing app or looking to greatly expand the functionality of its photo section in its mobile apps and website.Already, this is a prett... |
16 June 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Hardly surprising, but Facebook is focusing big time on mobile in 2011. One area where it wants to expand is the app platform which could do with a lot of improvements on the mobile front. Incidently, the company also acquired the stealth startup Rel8tion, which has been working on a mobile advertising service. "We&r... |
26 January 2011
06:38 GMT |
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In a rare move, Facebook is backing off and has announced that it will be disabling a new API feature which enabled developers to ask for access to users' private data. Facebook will be redesigning the feature in order to make it clearer for users what they are sharing, due to the sensitive nature of the informa... |
18 January 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Facebook doesn't really have a record of worrying about privacy issues. It's right to take this approach some times, users don't always know 'what's best' for them. Other times, it seems it's taking it one step too far, though it hasn't really affected the site so far. The late... |
17 January 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Facebook is taking a harder stance on what third-party app developers can do to make money, more specifically, what ad-networks they can and can't use, with emphasis on the latter. In light of all the recent scandals and controversy over some practices developers employed to monetize their apps, especially the ... |
27 November 2009
07:51 GMT |
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