What’s New on The Facebook Platform?

Iskandar NajmuddinNudge - nudgesocialmedia.com

Facebook Developer Garage Londonwww.facebookgarage.co.uk

September 24th, 2009

Notifications and Inbox API

Can retrieve currently-available notification data– No historical data

API Methods: – Notifications.getList– Notifications.markRead

FQL table: notification

Read from a user’s Inbox read_mailbox permission required

– Available to developers or for white-listed apps only API Method: Message.getThreadsInFolder FQL tables: mailbox_folder , thread, and message

Facebook Lite

Bare-bones Facebook - “Faster, simpler” Available in English http://lite.facebook.com/

Lite as a Platform?– No 3rd-party apps… yet.– A handful of Facebook’s own apps (Photos,

Videos, Events)

API Changes

stream.publish now works for posting on the Wall of a Public Profiles– Use Facebook.showPermissionDialog to get Page permission– Post as a Fan or as a Page admin

Edit Event name via events.edit Get photo width & height from photo FQL table Can use Publisher ‘attachment’ content format Facebook Connect for Mobile Web

– client library updates

Other Bits

@ - Tag Friends and Pages in stream posts– But no API access yet

Tornado released as Open Source – a scalable, non-blocking web server in Python

Native Page => Twitter integration “Prototype” Apps in Application Directory

– Facebook-owned apps, that is User milestone: 300M reached.

New “Sampling” Home Page Engagement Ad

New Photo and Page Badge Widgetshttp://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/

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