Facebook's database of you, your friends, and the entire world is going grow as a result, as will the degree of intelligence built into the social network. And yes, so will Facebook's monetization options.
Facebook has launched a new set of actions to help app developers and Facebook members post about things they are doing, such as reading books, watching a movie, or biking.
Facebook is eliminating the awkward construction of some of your news feed stories with this feature, a developer-cum-grammarian's dream.
Around the world, the biggest apps -- and the ones that make the most money -- are turning to Facebook for users and features.
Because nothing says "We care" like an email that says "Hey bud, this upcoming change is gonna break your app."
Facebook has just announced its new Shared Activity plug-in, a tool that lets you manage who sees what you're doing on Facebook-connected apps.
Facebook and fitness. Who knew these two seemingly disparate pursuits would blend so magically together? But fitness apps (and social competition in fitness activities) have seen huge growth since app developers got access to Facebook Open Graph.
Facebook announced today it's giving developers a new toy: the capability to tag a user's Facebook friends in an off-Facebook app.
Facebook did a fair amount of internal testing before it unleashed Timeline on the world, and its engineers also tested out how apps would be able to access and publish to Timeline.
But instead of dogfooding Open Graph features with …
Facebook-linked actions for “wanting” or “faving” or “nomming” various items from around the web and the real world have been around for a while, but Facebook is now testing an official, homebrewed Want button for products, as well.
The news …
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What were you doing at 9:30 a.m. Eastern? You certainly weren’t ringing the NASDAQ’s opening bell as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing. But what Zuck did simultaneously is perhaps even cooler.
To celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime, historic moment, Zuckerberg posted …
Following in the steps of its “actions,” Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new Timeline tool for third-party applications called action links. These customizable links will appear below an app’s post on your timeline or news feed alongside the links for …
Fresh after receiving a vote of confidence from Silicon Valley venture firms and rocketing to fame through Facebook, social video application Viddy is getting the red-carpet treatment from Hollywood.
Singers Shakira and Jay-Z and actor Will Smith join other high-profile …
Hang on to your seats, kids. An application for shooting and sharing pretty little videos is rocketing through Facebook and picking up new users at whirlwind speed.
Social video app Viddy added 300,000 new users yesterday, bringing its total to …
Less than two weeks after a relaunch featuring deeper ties to Facebook, music video service Vevo is seeing a record number of video views per person and is now netting 3.5 billion total views a month.
Vevo, the independent music …
Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again. The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation.
Digg’s pageviews jumped 35 percent in January, and the struggling company saw …
If Facebook files its paperwork for an initial public offering this week, as many expect it to do, we’ll be on the road to one of the biggest tech IPOs in recent history.
The offering will probably raise $10 billion …
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It’s the worst-kept secret on the Internet: Facebook Actions, a new way of interacting with apps, content, and brands, are coming to the social network.
At a private event in San Francisco Wednesday night, the social network announced a slew …
Facebook’s ambitious plan to weave various actions we take across the web into the social network via “frictionless” sharing is finally ready to be deployed, VentureBeat has learned.
The remaining pieces of Facebook’s new Open Graph are in the final …
Zipcar launched a Facebook application today, for the company’s “tech-savvy” customers.
“We know that our members are tech-savvy and actively engaged in social media, so providing members with the ability to reserve a Zipcar directly through Facebook is a natural …
