Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Shawn
Yesterday Facebook had an issue with it’s Platform bug tracker. Which is, unlike rain on your wedding day, ironic. It seems that it was not allowing the viewing of current bugs that are in the platform. Rest easy though, because this issue was promptly resolved.
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Shawn
Facebook announced last night that do to the popularity and response to their Facebook Chat feature they will be expanding the features of it. One of the first expansions of the chat service will be integration with Jabber/XMPP software. Soon you will be able to use Jabber/XMPP to connect with friends that are signed on […]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Shawn
Facebook just announced the next phase of their Facebook Platform called Facebook Connect. The plan is to extend the platform by allowing you to take your identity to third party websites. As an example, I could go over to Digg.com and digg an article and any of my friends that also go ti digg would […]
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Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Shawn
In a slight departure from the norm here at Facebook Herald, we would like to take this post to wish our mothers a Happy Mother’s Day! Thank you for everything you have done in shaping us into the totally awesome individuals that we are. I’ll be bringing cookies and my Wii over so you can […]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Shawn
Late last night the AFP reported that Facebook has signed akin to the one that Myspace signed last January. From the press release:
We are raising the safety bar, first for MySpace and now Facebook, and soon for other sites as we fight for an industry gold standard. Facebook and MySpace are showing how to aim […]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Shawn
This just in from the official feed, three changes to the way the cookie API works.
Couple of updates to the Cookies API: data.setCookie & data.getCookies were pushed out:
1. Cookies API disabled for desktop apps.
2. Cookies API don’t require a session key.
3. If no “expires” attribute is specified in the cookie, the cookie is set to […]
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Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shawn
According to the official feed Facebook is back on the Tuesday schedule for the push of their weekly update. The changes are as follows:
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References and official support for the Java client library are being removed with this change. Please refer […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Shawn
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:
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creates a new API call auth_expireSession, which will […]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Shawn
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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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Shawn
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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