Last week, there was a little stir in the blogosphere when some users and developers discovered that Facebook’s Beacon service (designed to easily share information about your off-Facebook activity with friends inside Facebook) still exists.
In response to questions, Facebook said: “Since late 2007, Beacon has been available on dozens of participating sites after we made [...]
From the developer’s blog: “I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily [...]
Recently, top Chinese social network Xiaonei (which looks a lot like Facebook and doesn’t try to hide it) launched its Open Platform for developers. With the launch, Xiaonei also announced a $50,000 application competition for developers who create the most successful apps on the Xiaonei Platform.
So how are developers responding? By copying top Facebook app [...]
Users will be able to start exploring Facebook in the new layout starting the week of July 14. Unlike the developer sandbox, which has been restricted to only allow access to the new profile page, starting next week all pages will be available to users in the new layout, including the home page, News Feed, [...]
Today, Hasbro and EA announced that the Facebook app EA has been working on for more than six months will be launched later this month, although a version on Pogo (EA’s online casual gaming site) is available today.
There is a Facebook Scrabble app in private beta, but the company is still testing it. It is [...]
It looks like green lights all the way for the launch of the iPhone App Store this week. Most developers have been told they must submit their applications by 12 PM PDT today (Monday) to be considered for inclusion in the launch:
Slide’s Top Friends, suspended from the Platform for a total of 7 days, was restored over the weekend. As of today, Top Friends is back to about 1.1 million daily active users,