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How Sony Leveraged the Popular “Vampires” Application to Reach its CommunityJeremiah Owyang of Web Strategy by Jeremiah just published a case study entitled How Sony Leveraged A Popular “Vampire” Facebook Widget To Reach It’s Community. The article dissects Sony’s sponsorship of the popular Vampires application...
Facebook Freakonomics: Why Apps DieA very interesting post appeared on the Facebook Developer Forums today, written by member Darxider. The topic, entitled Facebook Freakonomics: Why Apps Die, provides a very interesting perspective regarding how much money the average developer should...
Make Money on Facebook with RadicalBuyRadicalBuy is a Facebook marketplace application that allows users to buy and sell personal items. Unlike other marketplace applications though, RadicalBuy allows third party users to push items for you, promoting sales via a commission system. This...
Extreme Overhaul to Application About PagesFacebook just announced a major improvement made to application about pages. About pages now act like Facebook Pages, enabling application owners to customize page layouts, add & remove applications, acquire fans, track visitors, and much more. The...
Reduce Application Latency with Facebook’s New Batch APIFacebook just announced the addition of its batch API into the PHP client library. This addition is intended to combine individual operations into a single request, thereby improving application latency and reducing Facebook server loads. Previously,...
How to Successfully Publish Widespread News Feed StoriesSince the availability of the Facebook Platform’s feed.publishTemplatizedAction API call, developers have had the opportunity for stories to be shared with friends who have not yet installed their application. However, the method is significantly...
Upcoming Changes to News Feed ProcessWithin the past week, Facebook announced a promising update to the News Feed. The change, which is specific to the feed.publishTemplatizedAction API method, will only allow stories to be published for actions actively taken by the actor mentioned in...
Facebook: We Are Your ClientsThroughout all of yesterday, Facebook application developers experienced a great deal of application downtime. Many of the users experienced nearly 24 hours of downtime, while some are still encountering issues now, almost 36 hours later. After problems...
Animate Your Facebook AppsFacebook has officially announced the release of the FBJS Animation Library. The release of this library is Facebook’s response to the difficulties experienced by developers trying to integrate third party animation libraries such as Scriptaculous...
Bebo Application Platform Now Open to All DevelopersAlmost a month ago, the social networking website Bebo announced its own application platform. When first launched, the platform was only made available to a select group of companies and individuals, giving them what many disappointed developers considered...
