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• Third-Party Plugins, Services and SDKs

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Discover New Sample Apps

• We built the App Center to give people a central place to discover high-quality social apps. The App Center is now available to the over 955 million people that use Facebook on the web and throug...

  Early Results from the App Center

• Building User Intent into the Open Graph

• Drive Payer Conversion With New API

• Join the Facebook and Heroku teams for HACK the Social Web, August 18th-19th at Heroku HQ, 321 11th Street in San Francisco. In addition to hacking, on Saturday evening, you will have the opportun...

  Join Facebook and Heroku to HACK the Social Web

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Stitcher

• Subscriptions now available

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Changes to the App Dashboard

• Bringing Mention Tagging to Open Graph

• World Hack Kicks Off This Week

• Third-Party Plugins, Services and SDKs

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Discover New Sample Apps

• We built the App Center to give people a central place to discover high-quality social apps. The App Center is now available to the over 955 million people that use Facebook on the web and throug...

  Early Results from the App Center

• Building User Intent into the Open Graph

• Drive Payer Conversion With New API

• Reach users 1:1 with the Notifications API

• Updates to the Graph API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Success Stories: Fitness and Open Graph

• Changes to the App Dashboard

• Bringing Mention Tagging to Open Graph

• World Hack Kicks Off This Week

• Third-Party Plugins, Services and SDKs

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Discover New Sample Apps

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Tripl

• Reach users 1:1 with the Notifications API

• Updates to the Graph API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Success Stories: Fitness and Open Graph

• Changes to the App Dashboard

• Bringing Mention Tagging to Open Graph

• World Hack Kicks Off This Week

• Third-Party Plugins, Services and SDKs

• A new way for people to manage app activity

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HACK the Social Web Winners

• Facebook @ GDC Europe: Developer Day Recap

• Developer Spotlight: Cooliris

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Since we launched Open Graph nearly a year ago, actions that express affinity have become one of the most popular custom action types. Millions of people "favorite", "heart" and "love" experience...

  Associating Custom Actions with Like

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Tripl

• Reach users 1:1 with the Notifications API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook SDK for iOS and the iOS 6 Facebook Integration

• Bringing Real-time Updates to the App Dashboard

• A new way for people to manage app activity

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HACK the Social Web Winners

• Facebook @ GDC Europe: Developer Day Recap

• Developer Spotlight: Cooliris

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Since we launched Open Graph nearly a year ago, actions that express affinity have become one of the most popular custom action types. Millions of people "favorite", "heart" and "love" experience...

  Associating Custom Actions with Like

• Old Insights Dashboard We have completed migrating all data available in the old version of Insights to the new Insights dashboard. With this and other recent improvements, you can now view and ex...

  Platform Updates: Insights, Migrations and More

• On the last day of 2010, we only have a few updates to share. We are looking forward to an exciting 2011, with more great products, better reliability and improved documentation for developers. T...

  Platform Updates: Beta Tier and Developer Love

• Throughout this year, we have worked closely with media organizations to make their content even more social by empowering readers to experience media through their friends and easily discover and ...

  Making News and Entertainment More Social in 2011

• Extending the Third-Party Identifier Deadline In November, we outlined our technical solution to address the use of UIDs on Facebook Platform. Since that time, we have worked closely with the deve...

  Platform Updates: Extending the Third-Party ID Deadline, Insights and More

• Platform Change Log We generally announce notable changes on the Developer Blog and minor changes in these Friday blog posts. We’re now also providing a change log for developers to identify chang...

  Platform Updates: Change Log, Third Party IDs and More

• Making registration simple and social in just a few steps

• Testing App Requests in Notifications Games and applications are core to many people’s experience on Facebook, which is why we’re constantly working to improve how people discover, engage and inter...

  Platform Updates: Requests Testing, Migrations and More

• A long-standing but often forgotten tip for building on Platform is to test your app against our beta tier (http://www.beta.facebook.com), which we push to every Sunday night. This gives you around...

  Testing Using The Beta Tier

• Platform Dialogs, Reloaded

• This week we’re excited to join European entrepreneurs, industry influencers, and business leaders at the Le Web conference in Paris to discuss Platforms and their importance to businesses, develop...

  Join us at Le Web

• User Address and Mobile Phone Number We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object. Because this is sensitive information, we have created ...

  Platform Updates: New User Object fields, Edge.remove Event and More

• Old Insights Dashboard We have completed migrating all data available in the old version of Insights to the new Insights dashboard. With this and other recent improvements, you can now view and ex...

  Platform Updates: Insights, Migrations and More

• On the last day of 2010, we only have a few updates to share. We are looking forward to an exciting 2011, with more great products, better reliability and improved documentation for developers. T...

  Platform Updates: Beta Tier and Developer Love

• Throughout this year, we have worked closely with media organizations to make their content even more social by empowering readers to experience media through their friends and easily discover and ...

  Making News and Entertainment More Social in 2011

• Extending the Third-Party Identifier Deadline In November, we outlined our technical solution to address the use of UIDs on Facebook Platform. Since that time, we have worked closely with the deve...

  Platform Updates: Extending the Third-Party ID Deadline, Insights and More

• Platform Change Log We generally announce notable changes on the Developer Blog and minor changes in these Friday blog posts. We’re now also providing a change log for developers to identify chang...

  Platform Updates: Change Log, Third Party IDs and More

• Making registration simple and social in just a few steps

• Testing App Requests in Notifications Games and applications are core to many people’s experience on Facebook, which is why we’re constantly working to improve how people discover, engage and inter...

  Platform Updates: Requests Testing, Migrations and More

• A long-standing but often forgotten tip for building on Platform is to test your app against our beta tier (http://www.beta.facebook.com), which we push to every Sunday night. This gives you around...

  Testing Using The Beta Tier

• Platform Dialogs, Reloaded

• Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and sp...

  The Next Step for Facebook Credits

• Developer Love Bugzilla activity for the past 7 days: 97 new bugs were reported 10 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed) 3 bugs were fixed (2 previously reported bugs and 1...

  Platform Updates: Developer Love

• Building with HTML5 Tech Talk

• On Friday, we expanded the information you are able to share with external websites and applications to include your address and mobile number. With this change, you could, for example, easily sha...

  Improvements to Permissions for Address and Mobile Number

• Platform Updates: New User Object fields, Edge.remove Event and More

• Old Insights Dashboard We have completed migrating all data available in the old version of Insights to the new Insights dashboard. With this and other recent improvements, you can now view and ex...

  Platform Updates: Insights, Migrations and More

• On the last day of 2010, we only have a few updates to share. We are looking forward to an exciting 2011, with more great products, better reliability and improved documentation for developers. T...

  Platform Updates: Beta Tier and Developer Love

• Throughout this year, we have worked closely with media organizations to make their content even more social by empowering readers to experience media through their friends and easily discover and ...

  Making News and Entertainment More Social in 2011

• Extending the Third-Party Identifier Deadline In November, we outlined our technical solution to address the use of UIDs on Facebook Platform. Since that time, we have worked closely with the deve...

  Platform Updates: Extending the Third-Party ID Deadline, Insights and More

• Platform Change Log We generally announce notable changes on the Developer Blog and minor changes in these Friday blog posts. We’re now also providing a change log for developers to identify chang...

  Platform Updates: Change Log, Third Party IDs and More

• Operation Developer Love We’re continuing to gather and address the feedback you’ve provided about your experiences building on Facebook Platform. Thank you for your help filing bugs, your partici...

  Platform Updates: Improved Dev Site, Documentation, and More

• Application Roles and Security Features

• This morning, the White House introduced the Startup America Partnership to bring people across public and private industries together to foster entrepreneurship. As a company with strong entrepre...

  Calling All Entrepreneurs - Come Hack with Us!

• This evening we hosted a standing room only HTML5 Tech Talk with Charles Jolley (SproutCore) and Laurent Desegur (Zynga) that was joined by over 900 people on the livestream. Before the event, Cor...

  HTML5 Games 0.1

• Faster, Simpler Requests

• At Facebook, we devote significant resources to improving the security of people’s accounts. We have a variety of internal systems that detect and block suspicious behavior, and today we announced...

  Building More Secure Applications for Users

• We launched the Registration plugin in mid-December to help streamline the way users can sign up for accounts on your site, and connect those accounts with Facebook. We've received great feedback ...

  New updates and best practices for implementing Registration

• Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and sp...

  The Next Step for Facebook Credits

• Developer Love Bugzilla activity for the past 7 days: 97 new bugs were reported 10 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed) 3 bugs were fixed (2 previously reported bugs and 1...

  Platform Updates: Developer Love

• Building with HTML5 Tech Talk

• HTML5 Games 0.2: Integers are Your Friends

• For the past year, we’ve required ad providers operating on Apps on Facebook.com (i.e., Canvas apps) to sign terms with us. These terms ensure that these ad providers are committed to conforming ...

  Update to Platform Developer Policies

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Application Roles and Security Features

• Today, we’re introducing two features for developers that use Facebook Credits as the primary virtual currency within their games: buy with friends and frictionless payments. These features enhanc...

  Two New Features for Facebook Credits

• This morning, the White House introduced the Startup America Partnership to bring people across public and private industries together to foster entrepreneurship. As a company with strong entrepre...

  Calling All Entrepreneurs - Come Hack with Us!

• Operation Developer Love We’re continuing to gather and address the feedback you’ve provided about your experiences building on Facebook Platform. Thank you for your help filing bugs, your partici...

  Platform Updates: Improved Dev Site, Documentation, and More

• This evening we hosted a standing room only HTML5 Tech Talk with Charles Jolley (SproutCore) and Laurent Desegur (Zynga) that was joined by over 900 people on the livestream. Before the event, Cor...

  HTML5 Games 0.1

• Faster, Simpler Requests

• At Facebook, we devote significant resources to improving the security of people’s accounts. We have a variety of internal systems that detect and block suspicious behavior, and today we announced...

  Building More Secure Applications for Users

• Upgrade to Requests 2.0

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing iframe Tabs for Pages

• HTML5 Games 0.2: Integers are Your Friends

• For the past year, we’ve required ad providers operating on Apps on Facebook.com (i.e., Canvas apps) to sign terms with us. These terms ensure that these ad providers are committed to conforming ...

  Update to Platform Developer Policies

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Today, we’re introducing two features for developers that use Facebook Credits as the primary virtual currency within their games: buy with friends and frictionless payments. These features enhanc...

  Two New Features for Facebook Credits

• This morning, the White House introduced the Startup America Partnership to bring people across public and private industries together to foster entrepreneurship. As a company with strong entrepre...

  Calling All Entrepreneurs - Come Hack with Us!

• Operation Developer Love We’re continuing to gather and address the feedback you’ve provided about your experiences building on Facebook Platform. Thank you for your help filing bugs, your partici...

  Platform Updates: Improved Dev Site, Documentation, and More

• Application Roles and Security Features

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.3: Seeing the Future

• Surfacing Developer Requests

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How to publish updates to people who like your Open Graph Page

• Upgrade to Requests 2.0

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing iframe Tabs for Pages

• HTML5 Games 0.2: Integers are Your Friends

• For the past year, we’ve required ad providers operating on Apps on Facebook.com (i.e., Canvas apps) to sign terms with us. These terms ensure that these ad providers are committed to conforming ...

  Update to Platform Developer Policies

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Improving Comments Across The Web

• As announced in January, we will require social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process all payments through Facebook Credits starting July 1. While we are requiring social gam...

  An Update on Facebook Credits and In-Game Offers

• Today we’re announcing three updates to the payments and reporting features of Facebook Credits to better serve our developers: Faster payment schedules. Starting this month, Facebook will issue p...

  Payments and Reporting Updates for Facebook Credits

• We often hear from companies looking for guidance on maximizing their Facebook presence. To better meet each entity’s needs, we introduced the Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program in Decem...

  New Preferred Developers and Open Application Round

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.3: Seeing the Future

• Surfacing Developer Requests

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How to publish updates to people who like your Open Graph Page

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Whenever we anticipate an intentional breaking change, we update the Platform Roadmap and provide a migration to give developers the ability to upgrade and test their apps. Last week, we posted a ...

  Reminder: POST for Canvas migration

• How-To: Paging with the Graph API and FQL

• Real-Time Analytics For Social Plugins

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Improving Comments Across The Web

• As announced in January, we will require social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process all payments through Facebook Credits starting July 1. While we are requiring social gam...

  An Update on Facebook Credits and In-Game Offers

• Today we’re announcing three updates to the payments and reporting features of Facebook Credits to better serve our developers: Faster payment schedules. Starting this month, Facebook will issue p...

  Payments and Reporting Updates for Facebook Credits

• We often hear from companies looking for guidance on maximizing their Facebook presence. To better meet each entity’s needs, we introduced the Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program in Decem...

  New Preferred Developers and Open Application Round

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How-To: Use the Graph API to pull the movies friends like

• The Graph API is designed to make it easy to get data for an individual object and to browse connections between objects. If your app needs the ability to access significant amounts of data or mak...

  Batch requests in Graph API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Whenever we anticipate an intentional breaking change, we update the Platform Roadmap and provide a migration to give developers the ability to upgrade and test their apps. Last week, we posted a ...

  Reminder: POST for Canvas migration

• How-To: Paging with the Graph API and FQL

• Real-Time Analytics For Social Plugins

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Improving Comments Across The Web

• As announced in January, we will require social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process all payments through Facebook Credits starting July 1. While we are requiring social gam...

  An Update on Facebook Credits and In-Game Offers

• Operation Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are also livestreaming the video. Agenda: Welcome...

  Build. Social. Web.

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with developers locally, we are partnering with Seedcamp, an early stage micro seed investment and mentoring program, to help encourage and support startup...

  Helping build the next generation of social apps in Europe

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How-To: Use the Graph API to pull the movies friends like

• The Graph API is designed to make it easy to get data for an individual object and to browse connections between objects. If your app needs the ability to access significant amounts of data or mak...

  Batch requests in Graph API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Whenever we anticipate an intentional breaking change, we update the Platform Roadmap and provide a migration to give developers the ability to upgrade and test their apps. Last week, we posted a ...

  Reminder: POST for Canvas migration

• How-To: Paging with the Graph API and FQL

• Real-Time Analytics For Social Plugins

• Operation Developer Love: Europe Recap

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Operation Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are also livestreaming the video. Agenda: Welcome...

  Build. Social. Web.

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with developers locally, we are partnering with Seedcamp, an early stage micro seed investment and mentoring program, to help encourage and support startup...

  Helping build the next generation of social apps in Europe

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How-To: Use the Graph API to pull the movies friends like

• The Graph API is designed to make it easy to get data for an individual object and to browse connections between objects. If your app needs the ability to access significant amounts of data or mak...

  Batch requests in Graph API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Whenever we anticipate an intentional breaking change, we update the Platform Roadmap and provide a migration to give developers the ability to upgrade and test their apps. Last week, we posted a ...

  Reminder: POST for Canvas migration

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Adding new features to Comments Box

• How-To: Implement Facebook Credits

• Operation Developer Love: Europe Recap

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Operation Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are also livestreaming the video. Agenda: Welcome...

  Build. Social. Web.

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with developers locally, we are partnering with Seedcamp, an early stage micro seed investment and mentoring program, to help encourage and support startup...

  Helping build the next generation of social apps in Europe

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How-To: Use the Graph API to pull the movies friends like

• This week, we released JS Gamebench 0.4, a more streamlined version that is easier to run. We hope you will find it helpful as you continue your development of HTML5 apps. Using the Graph API t...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.4: Memory

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Adding new features to Comments Box

• How-To: Implement Facebook Credits

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Operation Developer Love: Europe Recap

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Operation Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are also livestreaming the video. Agenda: Welcome...

  Build. Social. Web.

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

• This week, we released JS Gamebench 0.4, a more streamlined version that is easier to run. We hope you will find it helpful as you continue your development of HTML5 apps. Using the Graph API t...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.4: Memory

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Adding new features to Comments Box

• How-To: Implement Facebook Credits

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Operation Developer Love: Europe Recap

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We continue to make Platform more secure for users. Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for users to browse Facebook over HTTPS. As a result, we provided “Secure Canvas URL” and “Secure T...

  Developer Roadmap Update: Moving to OAuth 2.0 + HTTPS

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

• This week, we released JS Gamebench 0.4, a more streamlined version that is easier to run. We hope you will find it helpful as you continue your development of HTML5 apps. Using the Graph API t...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.4: Memory

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Adding new features to Comments Box

• How-To: Implement Facebook Credits

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• One of the most frequently asked for “How-To” requests from developers is how to handle invalid access tokens. Access tokens for users can become invalid due to various reasons. In most cases, th...

  How-To: Handle expired access tokens

• Earlier this week, we updated our Developer Roadmap to require the use of OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS. These updates are part of a continual process to make our Platform more secure for developers and use...

  Keeping Users Safe

• How-To: Use the Graph API to Upload Photos to a user’s profile

• We continue to make Platform more secure for users. Earlier this year, we introduced the ability for users to browse Facebook over HTTPS . As a result, we provided “Secure Canvas URL” and “Secure T...

  Developer Roadmap Update: Moving to OAuth 2.0 + HTTPS

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

• This week, we released JS Gamebench 0.4, a more streamlined version that is easier to run. We hope you will find it helpful as you continue your development of HTML5 apps. Using the Graph API t...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• HTML5 Games 0.4: Memory

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Announcing f8 2011

• Supporting Developers on Stack Overflow

• Today we announced several improvements that make it easier for users to understand who can see photos, tags, posts, and other content across Facebook. As part of this, we have made a few minor...

  Updates to photo and video permissions

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Simplifying the Developer App

• Social design is quickly becoming the norm for any successful app. However, we haven’t yet emphasized why understanding social design is important and how to implement social design in your apps...

  Social Design Guidelines to help you build great social experiences

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• How-To: Publish scores and achievements for a user

• Making Apps on Facebook more engaging and social

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published the winners of the Mobile Hack Roadshow and published a Developer Spotlight on iHeardRadio. IPv6 Access With the World IPv6 Launch coming on June 6th...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• More f8 Tickets Available Tomorrow

• A Stable Platform

• How-To: Build an app on Facebook with Fluid Canvas

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Announcing f8 2011

• Supporting Developers on Stack Overflow

• Today we announced several improvements that make it easier for users to understand who can see photos, tags, posts, and other content across Facebook. As part of this, we have made a few minor...

  Updates to photo and video permissions

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Simplifying the Developer App

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• App Insights Now Available in Dev App

• Platform Updates: Labor Day Edition

• More f8 Tickets Available Tomorrow

• A Stable Platform

• How-To: Build an app on Facebook with Fluid Canvas

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Announcing f8 2011

• Supporting Developers on Stack Overflow

• This week we announced the following: A faster, more efficient way to report bugs with a new bug tool. Dev App integration with Heroku: developers can directly start building an app in your ch...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Graph API already supported creating and deleting events. Now, you can also manage invite lists and check RSVP status for events using the Graph API. All of these new features work from the /EV...

  How-To: Use the Graph API to Manage Events

• Today we are launching a new bug tool to replace Bugzilla which will help us get even faster and more efficient at fixing bugs. It is integrated into the Dev Site and uses your Facebook login so yo...

  A New Way to Report Bugs

• Facebook and Heroku: an even easier way to get started

• Tracking Platform Status

• Countdown to f8

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• App Insights Now Available in Dev App

• Platform Updates: Labor Day Edition

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• This week we hosted f8 and announced several new, exciting features for Facebook Platform. You can catch up by watching the recorded videos from the f8 live stream, reading our post explaining the ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At Facebook's core is the social graph; people and the connections they have to everything they care about. Historically, Facebook has managed this graph and has expanded it over time as we launch...

  How To: Get Started with the Open Graph

• f8: A New Class of Apps

• f8 is almost here!

• This week we announced the following: A faster, more efficient way to report bugs with a new bug tool. Dev App integration with Heroku: developers can directly start building an app in your ch...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Graph API already supported creating and deleting events. Now, you can also manage invite lists and check RSVP status for events using the Graph API. All of these new features work from the /EV...

  How-To: Use the Graph API to Manage Events

• Today we are launching a new bug tool to replace Bugzilla which will help us get even faster and more efficient at fixing bugs. It is integrated into the Dev Site and uses your Facebook login so yo...

  A New Way to Report Bugs

• Facebook and Heroku: an even easier way to get started

• Tracking Platform Status

• Countdown to f8

• Next steps towards a modern Platform: OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Improvements to Requests 2.0

• When Platform launched in 2007, FBML was a key component for developers building on Facebook, with millions of apps successfully built using this technology. Over time, as Platform matured and embr...

  Moving to a Modern Platform

• Many of you have received an email reminder to support OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS by October 1st. To help Canvas and Page Tab App developers more easily update their Secure URLs, we have pushed changes t...

  Meeting the Oct. 1 HTTPS Deadline: Updating Secure URLs via API

• This week we hosted f8 and announced several new, exciting features for Facebook Platform. You can catch up by watching the recorded videos from the f8 live stream, reading our post explaining the ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At Facebook's core is the social graph; people and the connections they have to everything they care about. Historically, Facebook has managed this graph and has expanded it over time as we launch...

  How To: Get Started with the Open Graph

• f8: A New Class of Apps

• f8 is almost here!

• This week we announced the following: A faster, more efficient way to report bugs with a new bug tool. Dev App integration with Heroku: developers can directly start building an app in your ch...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Open Graph Roadshow

• A common question that developers ask is how to handle users that revoke optional permissions. Users are able to revoke permissions through their app settings on Facebook, and as a developer, it ...

  How-To: Handle Revoked Auth Permissions

• Bringing Social App Discovery to Mobile

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing new Page Insights

• Next steps towards a modern Platform: OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Improvements to Requests 2.0

• When Platform launched in 2007, FBML was a key component for developers building on Facebook, with millions of apps successfully built using this technology. Over time, as Platform matured and embr...

  Moving to a Modern Platform

• Many of you have received an email reminder to support OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS by October 1st. To help Canvas and Page Tab App developers more easily update their Secure URLs, we have pushed changes t...

  Meeting the Oct. 1 HTTPS Deadline: Updating Secure URLs via API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Open Graph, currently in beta, lets developers integrate the social activities happening in their apps with Facebook. At f8, we introduced new features like the Activity Log and the improved Au...

  Building Private Mode and Other Sharing Controls into Your App

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At f8, we announced a redesigned Auth Dialog and a new authentication flow to give developers more control over people’s first experience with their apps. Today, we’re making these new tools availa...

  New Tools to Optimize App Authentication

• Open Graph Roadshow

• A common question that developers ask is how to handle users that revoke optional permissions. Users are able to revoke permissions through their app settings on Facebook, and as a developer, it ...

  How-To: Handle Revoked Auth Permissions

• Bringing Social App Discovery to Mobile

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing new Page Insights

• Next steps towards a modern Platform: OAuth 2.0 and HTTPS

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• A few weeks ago we announced the Open Graph Roadshow in various cities in the US. We had a great event in Chicago and are just now wrapping up our New York event. More and more developers have exp...

  Open Graph Roadshow: More tickets available

• Last week we announced Mobile Hack on Friday the 28th. Already, hundreds of developers have signed up to attend. We are now releasing additional tickets for this event held at Facebook. At this...

  Additional tickets now available for Mobile Hack

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Open Graph, currently in beta, lets developers integrate the social activities happening in their apps with Facebook. At f8, we introduced new features like the Activity Log and the improved Au...

  Building Private Mode and Other Sharing Controls into Your App

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At f8, we announced a redesigned Auth Dialog and a new authentication flow to give developers more control over people’s first experience with their apps. Today, we’re making these new tools availa...

  New Tools to Optimize App Authentication

• Open Graph Roadshow

• A common question that developers ask is how to handle users that revoke optional permissions. Users are able to revoke permissions through their app settings on Facebook, and as a developer, it ...

  How-To: Handle Revoked Auth Permissions

• Bringing Social App Discovery to Mobile

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In November 2010 Facebook introduced a new messaging product which unified conversations sent via chat, e-mail and regular Facebook messages. Today we are beginning the transition of our old mailb...

  Steps Toward the New Messaging System

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• A few weeks ago we announced the Open Graph Roadshow in various cities in the US. We had a great event in Chicago and are just now wrapping up our New York event. More and more developers have exp...

  Open Graph Roadshow: More tickets available

• Last week we announced Mobile Hack on Friday the 28th. Already, hundreds of developers have signed up to attend. We are now releasing additional tickets for this event held at Facebook. At this...

  Additional tickets now available for Mobile Hack

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Open Graph, currently in beta, lets developers integrate the social activities happening in their apps with Facebook. At f8, we introduced new features like the Activity Log and the improved Au...

  Building Private Mode and Other Sharing Controls into Your App

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At f8, we announced a redesigned Auth Dialog and a new authentication flow to give developers more control over people’s first experience with their apps. Today, we’re making these new tools availa...

  New Tools to Optimize App Authentication

• Open Graph Roadshow

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook’s Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program is a worldwide program, with about 90 members around the globe. These companies focus on integrating with Facebook Pages, Open Graph, Insight...

  Announcing the Fall Submission Round for the PDC Program

• Over the past few years, developers have started to demonstrate that when music is discovered through friends, people listen to more music and a wider variety of artists. At f8, we introduced an ev...

  Early Results: The Open Graph and Music

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In November 2010 Facebook introduced a new messaging product which unified conversations sent via chat, e-mail and regular Facebook messages. Today we are beginning the transition of our old mailb...

  Steps Toward the New Messaging System

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• A few weeks ago we announced the Open Graph Roadshow in various cities in the US. We had a great event in Chicago and are just now wrapping up our New York event. More and more developers have exp...

  Open Graph Roadshow: More tickets available

• Last week we announced Mobile Hack on Friday the 28th. Already, hundreds of developers have signed up to attend. We are now releasing additional tickets for this event held at Facebook. At this...

  Additional tickets now available for Mobile Hack

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The Open Graph, currently in beta, lets developers integrate the social activities happening in their apps with Facebook. At f8, we introduced new features like the Activity Log and the improved Au...

  Building Private Mode and Other Sharing Controls into Your App

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Register now for our Social Games Hack on December 8th at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA. At this all-day event you will both learn about and get hands-on experience building social games on Faceboo...

  Announcing Games Hack on December 8

• This week, we made the following updates: Added a summary field to the Graph API for notifications (requires manage_notifications permission). In the summary, the unseen_count can be used to pop...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Marcos Lara is the CTO and founder of AudioVroom. In this guest article he explains how AudioVroom utilizes Responsive Design. Over the years, my work flow has shifted as browsers and design tren...

  Responsive Design Essentials: Look Great on any Device

• Facebook Credits Updates

• We recommend that all developers building on Platform test their app against our beta tier. We update this tier daily with the latest changes, before they go into production. For example, next we...

  Testing against Beta Tier

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook’s Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program is a worldwide program, with about 90 members around the globe. These companies focus on integrating with Facebook Pages, Open Graph, Insight...

  Announcing the Fall Submission Round for the PDC Program

• Over the past few years, developers have started to demonstrate that when music is discovered through friends, people listen to more music and a wider variety of artists. At f8, we introduced an ev...

  Early Results: The Open Graph and Music

• In November 2010 Facebook introduced a new messaging product which unified conversations sent via chat, e-mail and regular Facebook messages. Today we are beginning the transition of our old mailb...

  Steps Toward the New Messaging System

• iOS and Android: Single Sign-On Best Practices

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Results: Social News and the Open Graph

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Register now for our Social Games Hack on December 8th at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA. At this all-day event you will both learn about and get hands-on experience building social games on Faceboo...

  Announcing Games Hack on December 8

• This week, we made the following updates: Added a summary field to the Graph API for notifications (requires manage_notifications permission). In the summary, the unseen_count can be used to pop...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Marcos Lara is the CTO and founder of AudioVroom. In this guest article he explains how AudioVroom utilizes Responsive Design. Over the years, my work flow has shifted as browsers and design tren...

  Responsive Design Essentials: Look Great on any Device

• Facebook Credits Updates

• We recommend that all developers building on Platform test their app against our beta tier. We update this tier daily with the latest changes, before they go into production. For example, next we...

  Testing against Beta Tier

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook’s Preferred Developer Consultant (PDC) program is a worldwide program, with about 90 members around the globe. These companies focus on integrating with Facebook Pages, Open Graph, Insight...

  Announcing the Fall Submission Round for the PDC Program

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In September we introduced Subscribe to make it easier for people who want to share their public updates with more than just friends to build an audience of subscribers. Today we’re launching the ...

  Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Bringing Facebook Platform to Android Devices

• Last week we announced that we'll be hosting a Games Hack for developers on Thursday, December 8 at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto. Already, registrations are filling up. Register now to reserve your s...

  Games Hack Tickets Available, but Going Fast

• Open Graph objects and actions introduce new capabilities that allow users to be much more deeply engaged with your app. One message we heard very clearly when we took f8 on the road to Asia and Eu...

  Internationalizing Open Graph Apps

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Results: Social News and the Open Graph

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Register now for our Social Games Hack on December 8th at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA. At this all-day event you will both learn about and get hands-on experience building social games on Faceboo...

  Announcing Games Hack on December 8

• This week, we made the following updates: Added a summary field to the Graph API for notifications (requires manage_notifications permission). In the summary, the unseen_count can be used to pop...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our continued efforts to migrate all apps to OAuth 2.0, we are opting in all apps using the new JavaScript SDK to OAuth 2.0 tomorrow at 11am Pacific Time. The deadline to support OAuth 2...

  Breaking Change: JavaScript SDK to oauth:true on December 13th

• Facebook Social Games Hack Recap

• Debugging in the Open Graph

• Removing App Profile Pages

• In September we introduced Subscribe to make it easier for people who want to share their public updates with more than just friends to build an audience of subscribers. Today we’re launching the ...

  Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Bringing Facebook Platform to Android Devices

• Last week we announced that we'll be hosting a Games Hack for developers on Thursday, December 8 at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto. Already, registrations are filling up. Register now to reserve your s...

  Games Hack Tickets Available, but Going Fast

• Open Graph objects and actions introduce new capabilities that allow users to be much more deeply engaged with your app. One message we heard very clearly when we took f8 on the road to Asia and Eu...

  Internationalizing Open Graph Apps

• In October, we announced the extension of Platform to Mobile, bringing social channels to mobile apps. The same month we invited mobile developers to join us for a Mobile Hack in Palo Alto. Some 3...

  Mobile Hack Coming To Boston and New York

• Platform Updates for Games Developers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We announced the Graph API at f8 2010. Since that event, we have been working hard to ensure that the most important functionality that developers were using with the REST API is available via the...

  Deprecating the REST API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our continued efforts to migrate all apps to OAuth 2.0, we are opting in all apps using the new JavaScript SDK to OAuth 2.0 tomorrow at 11am Pacific Time. The deadline to support OAuth 2...

  Breaking Change: JavaScript SDK to oauth:true on December 13th

• Facebook Social Games Hack Recap

• Debugging in the Open Graph

• Removing App Profile Pages

• In September we introduced Subscribe to make it easier for people who want to share their public updates with more than just friends to build an audience of subscribers. Today we’re launching the ...

  Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites

• Facebook gives users the ability to earn virtual currency by completing advertiser offers. For app developers, these offers can be a valuable additional source of revenue by helping them monetize ...

  Announcing In-App Currency Offers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Over the last few weeks, we have had several questions from developers as to which SDKs we support. We wanted to clarify that we provide support for the following: JavaScript SDK: source & do...

  Facebook Platform SDK Support

• As we near the end of 2011, we wanted to take a moment to recap the highlights from this year. Before doing so, we want to thank you for creating social apps that have delighted millions of users....

  2011 In Review

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In October, we announced the extension of Platform to Mobile, bringing social channels to mobile apps. The same month we invited mobile developers to join us for a Mobile Hack in Palo Alto. Some 3...

  Mobile Hack Coming To Boston and New York

• Platform Updates for Games Developers

• Over the last few weeks, we have had several questions from developers as to which SDKs we support. We wanted to clarify that we provide support for the following: JavaScript SDK: source & do...

  Facebook Platform SDK Support

• As we near the end of 2011, we wanted to take a moment to recap the highlights from this year. Before doing so, we want to thank you for creating social apps that have delighted millions of users....

  2011 In Review

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In October, we announced the extension of Platform to Mobile, bringing social channels to mobile apps. The same month we invited mobile developers to join us for a Mobile Hack in Palo Alto. Some 3...

  Mobile Hack Coming To Boston and New York

• Platform Updates for Games Developers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We announced the Graph API at f8 2010. Since that event, we have been working hard to ensure that the most important functionality that developers were using with the REST API is available via the...

  Deprecating the REST API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As part of our continued efforts to migrate all apps to OAuth 2.0, we are opting in all apps using the new JavaScript SDK to OAuth 2.0 tomorrow at 11am Pacific Time. The deadline to support OAuth 2...

  Breaking Change: JavaScript SDK to oauth:true on December 13th

• Facebook Social Games Hack Recap

• How-To: Optimize the Graph API data fetch using ETags

• Facebook gives users the ability to earn virtual currency by completing advertiser offers. For app developers, these offers can be a valuable additional source of revenue by helping them monetize ...

  Announcing In-App Currency Offers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Over the last few weeks, we have had several questions from developers as to which SDKs we support. We wanted to clarify that we provide support for the following: JavaScript SDK: source & do...

  Facebook Platform SDK Support

• As we near the end of 2011, we wanted to take a moment to recap the highlights from this year. Before doing so, we want to thank you for creating social apps that have delighted millions of users....

  2011 In Review

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In October, we announced the extension of Platform to Mobile, bringing social channels to mobile apps. The same month we invited mobile developers to join us for a Mobile Hack in Palo Alto. Some 3...

  Mobile Hack Coming To Boston and New York

• Platform Updates for Games Developers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We announced the Graph API at f8 2010. Since that event, we have been working hard to ensure that the most important functionality that developers were using with the REST API is available via the...

  Deprecating the REST API

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• A few weeks ago we announced Mobile Hacks coming to New York and Boston. Already, many East Coast developers have signed up to attend. We are now releasing additional tickets for these events:...

  Additional tickets now available for Mobile Hack in New York and Boston

• How-To: Optimize the Graph API data fetch using ETags

• How-To: Implementing hideFlashCallback to support "wmode=window"

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At f8, we announced Timeline and the Open Graph - the next generation of the platform which enables people to tell their stories through the apps they use. The Open Graph has already had a signifi...

  Open Graph now available

• Launching the Improved Auth Dialog

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• A few weeks ago we announced Mobile Hacks coming to New York and Boston. Already, many East Coast developers have signed up to attend. We are now releasing additional tickets for these events:...

  Additional tickets now available for Mobile Hack in New York and Boston

• How-To: Optimize the Graph API data fetch using ETags

• Facebook gives users the ability to earn virtual currency by completing advertiser offers. For app developers, these offers can be a valuable additional source of revenue by helping them monetize ...

  Announcing In-App Currency Offers

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Over the last few weeks, we have had several questions from developers as to which SDKs we support. We wanted to clarify that we provide support for the following: JavaScript SDK: source & do...

  Facebook Platform SDK Support

• In December, we announced that we will be deprecating App Profile Pages on Feburary 1st. Many developers have asked for some tips on how to smoothly migrate their page. Below are some common issues...

  How-To: Migrate your App Profile Page

• A common question we get from developers is how to keep information of Users or Pages using their apps up to date. We wanted to share some of the best practices that can improve the reliability and...

  How-To: Subscribing to data changes using the Real-time Updates API

• Games Update : Driving more discovery for games

• How-To: Implementing hideFlashCallback to support "wmode=window"

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• At f8, we announced Timeline and the Open Graph - the next generation of the platform which enables people to tell their stories through the apps they use. The Open Graph has already had a signifi...

  Open Graph now available

• Launching the Improved Auth Dialog

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We have a few updates for developers using Payments on Facebook Platform, including updates to the Pay Dialog, payout reports as well as new payer promotions. New Payer Promotions Facebook has be...

  Payments update

• Developer Blog Subscriptions

• We're excited to announce Facebook Developer Day at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, March 5th. Conference attendees are invited to join the Facebook Platform team for interac...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March

• Recently we announced a new way of creating Featured Stories (previously "Sponsored Stories") on the Ads API by using action specs. These changes make the Ads API more flexible and will make it eas...

  Creating Featured Stories with Action Specs

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In December, we announced that we will be deprecating App Profile Pages on Feburary 1st. Many developers have asked for some tips on how to smoothly migrate their page. Below are some common issues...

  How-To: Migrate your App Profile Page

• A common question we get from developers is how to keep information of Users or Pages using their apps up to date. We wanted to share some of the best practices that can improve the reliability and...

  How-To: Subscribing to data changes using the Real-time Updates API

• Games Update : Driving more discovery for games

• iOS and Android: Single Sign-On Best Practices

• We are beginning to highlight timeline apps that have great user experiences and to give you an idea of what is possible with the Platform. Today's developer spotlight is on Pinterest. Overview ...

  Developer Spotlight: Pinterest

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• There should be an app for everyone on Facebook, and people are quickly starting to use the apps you build to experience all of the things they love – shopping, reading books, eating and travelin...

  Early Success Stories: Timeline Apps and Open Graph

• In October, we announced the Facebook Mobile Platform, bringing social channels and distribution to mobile apps. Since then, momentum has been building, and today, more than 60 million visitors int...

  Announcing The Facebook Mobile Platform Global Hacks Roadshow- Europe

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We have a few updates for developers using Payments on Facebook Platform, including updates to the Pay Dialog, payout reports as well as new payer promotions. New Payer Promotions Facebook has be...

  Payments update

• Developer Blog Subscriptions

• We're excited to announce Facebook Developer Day at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, March 5th. Conference attendees are invited to join the Facebook Platform team for interac...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March

• Recently we announced a new way of creating Sponsored Stories on the Ads API by using action specs. These changes make the Ads API more flexible and will make it easier for developers to adapt to n...

  Creating Sponsored Stories with Action Specs

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• To help developers reach more people, we're committed to providing distribution across all platforms. The Open Graph, combined with News Feed and Timeline, helps people discover new apps through fr...

  Helping Improve the Mobile Web

• Growing Mobile Apps and Games with Facebook Platform

• Developer Spotlight: Goodreads

• As of today, over 90% of the thousands of Open Graph submissions we have received since f8 have been fully reviewed and responded to. The remainder is on track to be completed within the next few w...

  Open Graph Submissions Update

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Last week, we announced the European Mobile Hack Roadshow, bringing our popular mobile hack events to developers in the UK, Sweden and Israel. Today, we are also excited to announce the second par...

  The Facebook Mobile Hack Roadshow - coming to Asia

• Improving App Distribution on iOS

• Developer Spotlight: Pinterest

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• There should be an app for everyone on Facebook, and people are quickly starting to use the apps you build to experience all of the things they love – shopping, reading books, eating and travelin...

  Early Success Stories: Timeline Apps and Open Graph

• Building Better Stories with Location and Friends

• Updated Open Graph Submissions Flow

• Category Spotlight: Arcade game best practices

• Games Update: Expanding distribution for Scores and Achievements

• Enhanced Auth Dialog and Updates to Permissions

• Developer Spotlight: The Guardian

• As you may know, we've been bringing Facebook Hacks to cities around the world this year: in the US, Europe, and Asia so far. This spring, we're back in Palo Alto, California, and are very proud t...

  Announcing the AT&T & Facebook Mobile App Hackathon in Palo Alto

• The Facebook Developer Day is less than a week away on Monday, March 5th at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Don't forget to register for an "All-Access" or "Summit &a...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC this Monday

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• To help developers reach more people, we're committed to providing distribution across all platforms. The Open Graph, combined with News Feed and Timeline, helps people discover new apps through fr...

  Helping Improve the Mobile Web

• Developer Spotlight: Pose

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Building Better Stories with Location and Friends

• Updated Open Graph Submissions Flow

• Category Spotlight: Arcade game best practices

• Games Update: Expanding distribution for Scores and Achievements

• Enhanced Auth Dialog and Updates to Permissions

• Developer Spotlight: The Guardian

• As you may know, we've been bringing Facebook Hacks to cities around the world this year: in the US, Europe, and Asia so far. This spring, we're back in Palo Alto, California, and are very proud t...

  Announcing the AT&T & Facebook Mobile App Hackathon in Palo Alto

• The Facebook Developer Day is less than a week away on Monday, March 5th at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Don't forget to register for an "All-Access" or "Summit &a...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC this Monday

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We're constantly looking for new ways to help developers monetize more effectively on Facebook. One of the more recent steps we've taken is to launch New Payer Promotions to help developers convert...

  Facebook-Sponsored New Payer Promotions

• Developer Spotlight: Foodspotting

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook @ GDC: Developer Day Recap

• Mobile referrals now available on App Insights

• Developer Spotlight: Izlesene

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Recently, we announced the launch of the new Pages at fMC, and today we want you to know about new APIs for Pages. These APIs allow you to do the following operations: Manage a Page's milestones ...

  New Page APIs

• Developer Spotlight: Pose

• Developer Spotlight: Cities I've Visited

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We're constantly looking for new ways to help developers monetize more effectively on Facebook. One of the more recent steps we've taken is to launch New Payer Promotions to help developers convert...

  Facebook-Sponsored New Payer Promotions

• Developer Spotlight: Foodspotting

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook @ GDC: Developer Day Recap

• Mobile referrals now available on App Insights

• Developer Spotlight: Izlesene

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Recently, we announced the launch of the new Pages at fMC, and today we want you to know about new APIs for Pages. These APIs allow you to do the following operations: Manage a Page's milestones ...

  New Page APIs

• Developer Spotlight: Fab.com

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published an Open Graph spotlight on Cities I've Visited, and Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph. New App Insights We added more granular app insights...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph

• Developer Spotlight: Cities I've Visited

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We're constantly looking for new ways to help developers monetize more effectively on Facebook. One of the more recent steps we've taken is to launch New Payer Promotions to help developers convert...

  Facebook-Sponsored New Payer Promotions

• Developer Spotlight: Foodspotting

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook @ GDC: Developer Day Recap

• Mobile referrals now available on App Insights

• In the past two months we've visited some of the world's most exciting mobile development hubs, including New York, Boston, London, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo. Over...

  Mobile Hacks Roadshow: And the Winners Are...

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published a Developer Spotlight on Fab.com, and then made the below changes: New photo_src FQL Table We launched the photo_src FQL table which returns all the ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Fab.com

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published an Open Graph spotlight on Cities I've Visited, and Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph. New App Insights We added more granular app insights...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph

• Developer Spotlight: Cities I've Visited

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We're constantly looking for new ways to help developers monetize more effectively on Facebook. One of the more recent steps we've taken is to launch New Payer Promotions to help developers convert...

  Facebook-Sponsored New Payer Promotions

• Developer Spotlight: Foodspotting

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Fab.com

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published an Open Graph spotlight on Cities I've Visited, and Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph. New App Insights We added more granular app insights...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Diamond Dash is a 60-second gem rush game developed by German developer wooga, where players can match colorful gems, unleash magic diamonds and compete with friends. Wooga extended its popular Fa...

  Developer Spotlight: Diamond Dash Mobile

• The New Preferred Marketing Developer Program

• Developer Spotlight: iHeartRadio

• In the past two months we've visited some of the world's most exciting mobile development hubs, including New York, Boston, London, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo. Over...

  Mobile Hacks Roadshow: And the Winners Are...

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published a Developer Spotlight on Fab.com, and then made the below changes: New photo_src FQL Table We launched the photo_src FQL table which returns all the ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Early Success Stories: Video and Open Graph

• Developer Spotlight: Cities I've Visited

• Growth and Mobile Apps

• Developer Spotlight: Deezer

• This is a continuation of our series on the best practices documentation for Android and iOS Facebook integration. Implementing discovery for your app via requests is a powerful way to increase soc...

  Android and iOS: Discovery via Requests Best Practices

• Build Locally, Grow Globally

• Since last Wednesday's update, we shared a Developer Spotlight on Diamond Dash Mobile, explained how users can now discover native Android apps through Facebook, and streamlined getting the publi...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Streamlining publish_stream and publish_actions permissions

• Discover native Android apps through Facebook

• Diamond Dash is a 60-second gem rush game developed by German developer wooga, where players can match colorful gems, unleash magic diamonds and compete with friends. Wooga extended its popular Fa...

  Developer Spotlight: Diamond Dash Mobile

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published the winners of the Mobile Hack Roadshow and published a Developer Spotlight on iHeardRadio. IPv6 Access With the World IPv6 Launch coming on June 6th...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• The New Preferred Marketing Developer Program

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing the App Center

• When you visit many popular websites, they’ll check to see if you’re still signed from a previous session. If you are, they’ll skip the sign-in page and let you immediately see personalized conten...

  How-to: Improve the Experience for Returning Users

• Developer Spotlight: Kobo

• Action Links: A New Way to Interact with Apps

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published a Developer Spotlight on Deezer, and best practices documentation for Android and iOS Facebook integration. Best Practices: Creating Timeline Aggregat...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• In February, we announced early data points about the traffic that Facebook was delivering to mobile apps and games. Over the past two month, the traffic we drive to mobile apps continues to rapidl...

  Growth and Mobile Apps

• Developer Spotlight: Deezer

• This is a continuation of our series on the best practices documentation for Android and iOS Facebook integration. Implementing discovery for your app via requests is a powerful way to increase soc...

  Android and iOS: Discovery via Requests Best Practices

• Build Locally, Grow Globally

• App Center Best Practices

• We’re introducing two new features in Insights: App Ratings and Negative Feedback. They both help you monitor positive and negative user signals. As announced last week, inclusion and success in...

  Monitoring App Quality with Insights

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Developer Spotlight: Tumblr

• Preview sponsored stories with the Action Spec Preview Tool

• Developer Spotlight: Endomondo

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Introducing the App Center

• When you visit many popular websites, they’ll check to see if you’re still signed from a previous session. If you are, they’ll skip the sign-in page and let you immediately see personalized conten...

  How-to: Improve the Experience for Returning Users

• Developer Spotlight: Kobo

• We’re introducing two new features in Insights: App Ratings and Negative Feedback. They both help you monitor positive and negative user signals. As announced last week, inclusion and success in...

  Monitoring App Quality with Insights

• We’re launching the ability for people to try games directly in news feed. Feed gaming enables developers to share a playable version of their game within news feed and timeline stories, reaching ...

  Play Games Directly in News Feed

• Game Spotlight: Bingo Bash

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Get to Know Your Unique Users

• On Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd June 2012, 600 mobile developers and designers will converge on Bletchley Park - home of the British wartime efforts to break the Enigma and Lorenz codes - for Ov...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at Over The Air

• Driving mobile app installs with the App Center

• Developer Spotlight: Tumblr

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• App Center Best Practices

• Developer Spotlight: NBC's The Voice

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We’re launching the ability for people to try games directly in news feed. Feed gaming enables developers to share a playable version of their game within news feed and timeline stories, reaching ...

  Play Games Directly in News Feed

• Game Spotlight: Bingo Bash

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Get to Know Your Unique Users

• On Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd June 2012, 600 mobile developers and designers will converge on Bletchley Park - home of the British wartime efforts to break the Enigma and Lorenz codes - for Ov...

  Join the Facebook Platform team at Over The Air

• Driving mobile app installs with the App Center

• Developer Spotlight: Tumblr

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• As a Facebook game developer, here's what you should know about the new features and documentation we released this past month: New features Feed gaming. Now you can share a playable version of ...

  Games Round-Up

• Over the past few months, shopping and fashion has become one of the faster-growing categories of timeline apps. Companies in this space are attracting a new type of user – shopaholics and fashioni...

  Early Success Stories: Shopping, Fashion and Open Graph

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. The plugin was built by Facebook ...

  Facebook Integration for WordPress

• Come code with us at our HACK in Toronto on Saturday, June 16th at 99 Sudbury. Developers in Toronto and North by Northeast conference attendees are encouraged to attend. The HACK is a day-long co...

  Join the Facebook Team at Our Toronto HACK

• Today we’re launching the App Center, the place for people to find great social apps on the web and mobile. Driving installs on the web and mobile The App Center helps high-quality apps grow by pr...

  Growing quality apps with the App Center

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Game developers building on the mobile web have been able to use Facebook Payments to monetize their apps for some time. A full list of supported countries can be found here. However, this flow fo...

  Helping Monetize The Mobile Web

• Developer Spotlight: NBC's The Voice

• Since last Wednesday's update, we spotlighted Bingo Bash and launched the ability for people to play games in News Feed. Testing FQL in the Graph API Explorer Today we added an "FQL Query" tab ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Bringing Like to Mobile

• Introducing subscriptions and local currency pricing

• Over 120 developers joined us last Saturday for our first HACK in Toronto. We presented information on our developer tools and APIs. Attendees shared ideas and brainstormed before splitting into te...

  Toronto HACK Winners

• We're very excited about the Facebook integration in iOS 6 that Apple announced last week at WWDC 2012. We're working on a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that will launch in the coming we...

  iOS and Facebook

• King.com's Candy Crush Saga is a puzzle game where players swap candies to clear the game board and advance to the next level and beat friends' scores. Candy Crush Saga Results Candy Crush Saga ...

  Game Spotlight: Candy Crush Saga

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Facebook Integration for WordPress

• Come code with us at our HACK in Toronto on Saturday, June 16th at 99 Sudbury. Developers in Toronto and North by Northeast conference attendees are encouraged to attend. The HACK is a day-long co...

  Join the Facebook Team at Our Toronto HACK

• Today we’re launching the App Center, the place for people to find great social apps on the web and mobile. Driving installs on the web and mobile The App Center helps high-quality apps grow by pr...

  Growing quality apps with the App Center

• To help you improve monetization in your game, we are launching an API that gives you access to the user's preferred currency and the conversion rate to Credits. This lets you show prices in the us...

  Pricing in a User’s Preferred Currency

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Today we are launching the Open Graph built-in follow action. The follow action makes it easier for people to keep tabs on the stories people tell from within your app in their News Feed, Timeline ...

  Enable Followers in Your App

• Many times I get asked by developers, "should I build for Facebook or mobile?", and the answer is, both. It's not a question of one or the other. Mobile apps, just like apps on Facebook.com, can be...

  Growing Mobile Games and Apps with Facebook

• Many of you have expressed interest in starting meetup groups and other events in your local area to stay in better touch with fellow Facebook developers. For example, we have seen several meetups ...

  Stay Connected with Facebook Developer Meetups

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Bringing Like to Mobile

• Introducing subscriptions and local currency pricing

• Over 120 developers joined us last Saturday for our first HACK in Toronto. We presented information on our developer tools and APIs. Attendees shared ideas and brainstormed before splitting into te...

  Toronto HACK Winners

• We're very excited about the Facebook integration in iOS 6 that Apple announced last week at WWDC 2012. We're working on a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that will launch in the coming we...

  iOS and Facebook

• We’re happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We’ve also introduced a new iOS Dev Center so you can q...

  Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS

• Developers in the Bay Area should come check out Photo Hack Day on July 14-15 at Dropbox HQ in San Francisco. This event is the third in a series of hackathons focused on creating high-quality pho...

  Join Facebook at Photo Hack Day in San Francisco

• App Center Global Rollout

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• To help you improve monetization in your game, we are launching an API that gives you access to the user's preferred currency and the conversion rate to Credits. This lets you show prices in the us...

  Pricing in a User’s Preferred Currency

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Today we are launching the Open Graph built-in follow action. The follow action makes it easier for people to keep tabs on the stories people tell from within your app in their News Feed, Timeline ...

  Enable Followers in Your App

• Growing Mobile Games and Apps with Facebook

• Many of you have expressed interest in starting meetup groups and other events in your local area to stay in better touch with fellow Facebook developers. For example, we have seen several meetups ...

  Stay Connected with Facebook Developer Meetups

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Capturing Growth: Photo Apps and Open Graph

• Game Spotlight: SongPop

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We’re happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We’ve also introduced a new iOS Dev Center so you can q...

  Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS

• Developers in the Bay Area should come check out Photo Hack Day on July 14-15 at Dropbox HQ in San Francisco. This event is the third in a series of hackathons focused on creating high-quality pho...

  Join Facebook at Photo Hack Day in San Francisco

• App Center Global Rollout

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• To help you improve monetization in your game, we are launching an API that gives you access to the user's preferred currency and the conversion rate to Credits. This lets you show prices in the us...

  Pricing in a User’s Preferred Currency

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Today we're launching the Recommendations Bar, a new social plug-in that helps people find articles based on what their friends like and share from your site. As a person reads an article, a small...

  Introducing the Recommendations Bar

• Since last Wednesday's update, we published a game spotlight on War Commander and shared New Marketing Tools for Pages. Presenting Like Buttons and Stories to the Right Audience We're updating ...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Photo Hack Day Winner

• KIXEYE's War Commander is a massively multi-player strategy game on Facebook.com where players battle each other to expand their empires. War Commander's active player community and fun game mecha...

  Game Spotlight: War Commander

• Pages are valuable tools for marketing your app or your brand. Recently, we added several powerful features that simplify managing and sponsoring Page posts. All below features are available in bot...

  New Marketing Tools for Pages

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Capturing Growth: Photo Apps and Open Graph

• Game Spotlight: SongPop

• Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• We’re happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We’ve also introduced a new iOS Dev Center so you can q...

  Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS

• Since last Wednesday's update, we upgraded the payments reporting system to a new payment reporting API and launched subscriptions for apps. World HACK 2012 was announced with 12 cities on the to...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

• Stitcher is a mobile app that enables people to discover the podcasts their friends are listening to and share their favorite selections. People can also receive recommendations for new radio sh...

  Developer Spotlight: Stitcher

• Today we're making subscriptions available to all developers with apps on Facebook.com as a new way for you to grow your business with Facebook. Announced in June, subscriptions helps you establis...

  Subscriptions now available

• Today we're announcing the Facebook Developer World HACK 2012, a series of events we're hosting around the world throughout August and September. Build an amazing Facebook app at the HACK and you c...

  Facebook Developer World HACK 2012

• Today we're announcing a new way for mobile app developers to grow their business with an ad unit that helps them reach and reengage their users. We're beginning to test the ad unit with a limit...

  Introducing New Mobile Ads for Apps

• The Facebook SDK for iOS is coming out of beta today and is ready for use in your iOS apps. This release enables several new features: ready-to-use native UI controls, better session management,...

  Facebook SDK 3.0 for iOS

• The Facebook team will be at GDC Europe in Cologne on Tuesday, August 14th to host a Developer Day. In this full-day session, Facebook engineers will deep dive into the fundamentals of building su...

  Facebook team at GDC Europe

• We’re launching a payments reporting API that allows you to download daily reports of transaction data, instead of receiving that information via email. This new reporting system is more reliable,...

  New payments reporting API

• We recently added support for timezones as well as date-only events (those with a date but no time yet defined) for events on Facebook to make it easier for friends to share events make plans toget...

  Platform Migration: Events Timezone Support

• Since last Wednesday's update, we launched the Recommendations Bar social plugin and announced this Friday's Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp. App Center Now Available Worldwide We’ve been gradually...

  Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

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