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What’s New on The Facebook Platform? Iskandar Najmuddin Nudge - nudgesocialmedia.com Facebook Developer Garage London www.facebookgarage.co.uk November 11 th , 2009
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Presentation for the Facebook Developer Garage 2009
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What’s New on The Facebook Platform?
Iskandar NajmuddinNudge - nudgesocialmedia.com
Facebook Developer Garage Londonwww.facebookgarage.co.uk
November 11th, 2009
At a Glance – The FB Platform Roadmap http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Developer_Roadmap
OUT
o Notificationso Profile Boxeso Verified Applicationso Feed Templateso The miscellaneous publish methods
IN
Application Bookmarks Application Dashboards Real Email Addresses Unified Inbox and Message
Composer Stream Publish and Stream
Attachments
To simplify communication for users and developers To improve app discovery and engagement To provide you with more comprehensive tools for building or
expanding your business with Facebook1
1. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=326
Why the Roadmap?
Roadmap Updates – Currently Live
Feeds: News vs. Live– News Feed is the Facebook Black Box of Interestingness– Live Feed is ALL content from a Facebook-selected set of 250 connections
Bookmark Button
Digg-style FB Connect Share widget (fb:share-button)– Share Analytics: clicks, likes, comments, etc– API call: links.getStats– FQL table: link_stat
Action links on Feed Stories – only one link used
November 2009 - Bookmarks
Application bookmark required to use Application Counters (coming December 2009)
FBML element: fb:bookmark JS API: showBookmarkDialog New FQL column on permissions table: bookmarked
November 2009 – Stream Updates
Stream publishing API reduced to:– stream.publish– Facebook.streamPublish– FB.Connect.streamPublishOther API calls will be unsupported after December 20, 2009
Platform Guidelines update:– Only show dialog on explicit user “Share” action
Display changes:– 90px images– Single action link, max 25 characters (already in effect)– No “formatting” characters– See More link
November 2009 – The Rest
Email - Apps can request access to primary email addresses
– Request user flow not yet published by Facebook– 30 days after launch, the notifications API will be removed
New Share dialog – unified message composer– Apps can populate the first recipient UID only
Canvas page chrome will change based on application
Invites – will appear in an Inbox section
December 2009 / Early 2010
Verified Applications program ends– All apps will be subject to the Verified App standards.– Existing Verified Apps will be refunded pro-rata.
Buh-bye, Profile Boxes!– And the Boxes tab. And Info sections.– Application tabs will be the only profile integration point
Application Tab width– Will change from 760px to ~520px– Final width not yet confirmed
Dashboards - Applications & Games Application Counters go live
Other Bits
Microsoft .NET Facebook API library – including Silverlight support
Facebook Platform Status– http://developers.facebook.com/live_status.php
ActionScript 3.0 Client Libraries updated– Support for fql.multiQuery, Comments, Inbox
Roadmap - Into 2010
Open Graph API – Allow any page on the Web to have Facebook Page features
Improved Application analytics, available via API
New FB Connect libraries
New FBJS
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