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Using Facebook Chat via Jabber
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Since the launch of Facebook Chat, we've received a lot of positive feedbackfrom users about being able to connect instantly with their friends onFacebook. With Chat fully launched and growing steadily, we've startedworking on more new features to enhance the Chat experience.Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. In thenear future, users will be able to...
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A First Glimpse at the Improved Profile
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
As we mentionedthe other day, we're setting out to improve our profile design. Our goal is to make the profile simpler, relevant, and to give users a greater degree ofcontrol. Today we're going to give you the first look at the profile. We're stilliterating on the final design, so design elements and names canchange. However, these screen shots will give you a good idea of whatyou can...
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Feed Forms
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on March 12, 2008
As we move towards the new Facebook profile, one of our major goals is to improve the quality of feed stories. We want users to have a sense of ownership of their Mini-Feed and trust in the stories that are created on their behalf. Since applications make up such a large portion of feed content, our aim is to give developers a simple way to publish rich feed stories with user approval. With...
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Announcing Facebook Connect
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Shared by mario r This seems to be mostly marketing. As far as I can tell, all that functionality has been available from day 1 trough the API. It just has been mostly ignored.At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go.In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the...
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Thoughts on Privacy
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
As developers, you’re probably curious about the recent initiatives we and other companies in the industry have taken to help you build applications that let users take their information around the web. We wanted to give you a little more information on how we’re thinking about these projects and get your feedback in the forum. At Facebook, we always look out for the privacy of our users. ...
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New batch API
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on January 23, 2008
The batch API allows you to combine multiple individual operations into a single request. This will significantly improve your application latency and reduce traffic load on Facebook servers. We have also updated our PHP5 client library to make using the batch API easier. Here is an example that calls the Facebook API in no-batched mode,$friends = $api_client->friends_get();$notifications =...
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Platform Internationalization
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on February 08, 2008
Hola! Yesterday, we announced the release of Facebook in Spanish. We are really excited to bring Facebook to a whole new set of users in their native language. In the coming months, we plan to continue internationalizing and make similar releases in many other languages. We took a neat approach to translation. Instead of shipping our strings off to be translated, we used FBML to wrap all of our...
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Improved Profile
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Last week we gave you the first look at how we're changing the Facebook profile. As we expected, we received some good feedback as well as requests for more details. Today we're presenting answers to some questions that were asked. Will Facebook applications appear in the narrow column?Facebook applications won't appear in the narrow column by default, but users can add them there if...
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