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Facebook Targeting News Feed SpamFacebook announced yesterday the availability of a new feature relating to the News Feed. The change includes a new “I didn’t do this” button available to members when hiding stories in the Mini-Feed on their profiles. In addition...
Google OpenSocial to Launch ThursdayTechCrunch revealed details yesterday of Google’s upcoming OpenSocial project. OpenSocial will provide a common set of API functionality that application developers can use to interact with a multitude of social networks that opt to participate. With...
Facebook Developer Garage PhiladelphiaFor those located in the northeastern U.S. interested in attending a Facebook Developer Garage, one has been announced for Philadelphia on November 8th. The Garage is intended to provide a place for exploring and experimenting ideas for new Facebook applications....
Facebook Needs a Developer SandboxWhile Facebook has done its best to offer third party developers a simple method for integrating applications, the social network has focused most of its effort on simplicity of use, accessibility of data, and component availability and diversity. While...
Protect Your Code Against Destructive SQL InjectionSQL injection is a technique by which an end user exploits insecurities in an application resulting in harmful modifications to database queries. Often times, the security vulnerability exists as a result of lack of knowledge, lack of testing, and/or...
How to Display a Loading Message in Facebook DialogsThe last installment of Facebook Developer tutorials explains how to reduce bandwidth by replacing FBML fb:dialog tags with AJAX-enabled FBJS Dialog objects. However, while the tutorial demonstrates how to reduce response lengths, the code did not account...
Friendster Announces Developer PlatformFriendster social network announced the upcoming release of the Friendster API Platform for third party developers today. The announcement comes only five months after Facebook announced its developer platform and less than one day after MySpace announced...
Facebook Announces Mobile Developer PlatformAccording to VentureBeat, Facebook announced the Facebook Platform for Mobile today at CTIA Wireless. The new platform will enable third party developers to extend their existing applications to be used by mobile devices. Facebook Platform for Mobile...
MySpace Announces Plans of Opening to DevelopersSocial networking giant MySpace announced last Wednesday that it will soon allow third party developers to take advantage of its service to develop widgets and applications in an effort to counter Facebook’s recent growth. The announcement was...
Reducing Bandwidth with FBJS DialogsFacebook provides a simple means for displaying dialogs via the fb:dialog element in FBML. Many times, application dialogs will be fairly repetitive, containing much of the same information with only minor changes representing application-specific data....
