The Facebook Journal

I’m happy to announce the release of the iPhone Web App version of The Facebook Journal.
To use the web app, just navigate to thefacebookjournal.com on your iPhone’s web browser. The app represents a streamlined version of the website with an interface  specifically optimized for the iPhone.
For more info about the web app, visit Apple’s Web Apps [...]

In a recent blog post Facebook encouraged users to be trustworthy and to create great user experiences.
The deadline for enforcement of the new Facebook Developer Principles and Policies has passed and now all the application developers that violate those rules will be punished. The actions taken against the apps will range from simple warnings, suspension of certain functionality to the outright disablement of [...]

Update: According to Facebook “The performance and volume of API calls has stabilized at close to normal level”.
The Facebook Platform is down again with the Platform Live Status page all in red. There have also been reports that the entire Facebook network was down as well.
FBML based apps are currently performing the worst and a small [...]

Facebook has just announced that the new Dashboard API is now available for testing. According to the dashboard roadmap the Facebook Dashboard API lets you integrate your application into the Application Dashboard or the Games Dashboard (depending upon the type of application you have). These dashboards help users discover and engage with your applications on Facebook. They display which application’s users and their friends recently used as well as any news your applications wish to communicate to users.
The Dashboard API integrates with the Games and Application Dashboard in two ways: It gives you the ability to post news items to a user’s dashboard, providing information to the user and giving the user the opportunity to take action. It lets you set a counter as a lightweight way for you to inform your users to take action within your application.

Facebook announced about their new Privacy Settings earlier today. Facebook says that the changes are made to simplify the Facebook privacy settings and give users more control,  but according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation these changes are made to push users to publicly share even more information than before.
For app developers these changes will be very useful. Users [...]

Google announced today, at their Search event,  that its new real-time search will also include status updates from Public Profile Pages, aka Facebook Pages.
No word yet if it will include Application Profiles or not, but for now it certainly won’t include user Profile updates.
This can really increase the significance of Facebook Pages and events like the streaming [...]

Facebook has just announced the formation of a Facebook Safety Advisory Board.
According to Facebook the Safety Advisory Board is “the latest step in its commitment to improve safety on Facebook and across the Web”. The Facebook Safety Advisory Board consists of a group of five leading Internet safety organizations from North America and Europe that will serve [...]

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In the submission page, make sure you describe your application and tell us why do you think it has the potential to become the next killer app [...]

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Yes. Facebook will deprecate all previous feed publishing functions after December 20, 2009 and your applications need to move to the OpenStream API by then. The new API implements the Streams feature, which is based on the Activity Streams standard. That’s not news. And nothing after this point is news anymore, but a short tutorial [...]