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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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Shawn
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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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Shawn
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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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Shawn
According to the official Facebook feed April 20th has presented a few problems for users. The first popped up around midnight pst giving some users issues with adding or deleting applications. The other was a bug that resulted in application e-mails being sent with no formatting. Facebook has corrected and apologized for both problems.
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Shawn
The official Facebook status feed is requesting a little help from the community. If you are developing apps Facebook would like to know what API client you are using. If you would like to take part in this poll you can find it here.
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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Shawn
With social networks getting bigger than ever people are looking for more and more ways to share their life, interest, and experiences. Today Facebook added it’s own take on what has become known as Lifecasting by adding an import function to the mini-feed on Facebook profiles. You may have noticed the small change at the […]
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