News: May 6th: Back On Schedule Tuesday

According to the official feed Facebook is back on the Tuesday schedule for the push of their weekly update. The changes are as follows:

r96774 | jleszcze | 2008-05-05 01:04:21 -0700 (Mon, 05 May 2008) | 17 lines

References and official support for the Java client library are being removed with this change. Please refer […]

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Review: Warcraft Fan

What It Is:
After reviewing Mario Velasquez’s lack luster Mario Kart Fan app I decided to see what other applications he offers and there is quite the list. He seems to have a thing for using other people’s intellectual property, which, I guess is OK if it is an appropriate work of homage. On his extensive […]

Popularity: 7% [?]

Spotlight: FaceCheckr an Apple Dashboard Widgit

I’ve noticed through my Google Analytics report that nearly 40% of our readers are using an Apple operating system. I myself do most of the work for the site on a Macbook Pro so I thought it would be nice to do a feature on something for all of those OS […]

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News: May 2nd: Weekly Release and More Buckets

The official feed is  confirming that the weekly push that normally goes out on  Tuesday did go out last night as planned. As you can see the normal lines of push changes are present:

r95052 | jleszcze | 2008-04-22 23:45:27 -0700 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 25 lines

creates a new API call auth_expireSession, which will […]

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News: BBC Thinks Facebook Is A Risk

The BBC published a story today about the possible risks associated with the installation of Facebook Applications.

Anyone with a basic understanding of web programming can write an application.We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as a game, a test, or a joke of the day. It […]

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Review: Mario Kart Fan App

 What It Is:

I want to begin by saying that I am a huge fan of Nintendo’s Mario Kart franchise. I didn’t play it until Mario Kart: Double Dash came out for the Gamecube, and when Mario Kart DS came out for the hand held, I was hooked. Even now I play at least a few […]

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News: April 29th: Weekly Release

Facebook generally pushes out it’s new releases on Tuesday of every week but they must have hit some sort of snag. The official feed is telling us that the release that was supposed to come out today will instead land on Thursday. They will be back to their normal Tuesday releases next week.

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Review: Haikoo Zoo

What It Does:
Renkoo is a company that has a focus on creating applications for social networks. Their Haikoo Zoo entry allows you to put overly adorable pets into your Facebook profile to be cared for by you and your friends.

The Beauty Is In The Breakdown:
I know that as a reviewer I am supposed to be […]

Popularity: 31% [?]

Facebook Features: Chat All The Way Live

The chat feature has been live on Facebook since the 6th of April for some people but it seems like today it has achieved full penetration. You may have noticed this nice non-intrusive aluminum brushed bar at the bottom of your screen that could only look sleeker if it had rounded corners. The bar […]

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News: April 23rd Brings a Weekly Release

The official Facebook platform status feed is reporting that the weekly release was pushed out late last night. Copied from the Push Changes section of the Facebook Developers Wiki:
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Bug fix so that when granting an infinite session to a user who […]

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