What’s New on The Facebook Platform?

Iskandar NajmuddinNudge - nudgesocialmedia.com

Facebook Developer Garage Londonwww.facebookgarage.co.uk

August 25th, 2010

Places IRL O RLY? RLY

Check In with Facebook US-only for now Tag Friends New extended permissions:

– user_checkins, friend_checkins

No FQL table yet New privacy settings Check In Locations are FB Pages Check In via Yelp, Gowalla, and Foursquare

Canvas Authorisation

OAuth 2.0 for app callback URLsNew signed Request looks like:{

user_id: “....”,

oauth_token: “...”,

expires: “...”,

profile_id: “...”

}

No more fb_sig_friends, locale, API key or App ID supplied

Available as a migration option in Developer App UI

ImpactStore user data and subscribe to RT updates or face multiple-API-call-slownessSet unique callback URLs for each App

Canvas & Tabs: Roadmap

Canvas FBML to be deprecated: All new apps must be Iframe apps (end of the year)

Deprecation: App Tabs on User Profiles (next few months) Profile Boxes to be removed (this week) Some REST API methods (end of the year) Data Store API (end of the year)

Application Tab changes: Width finally shrinking to 520 pixels (this week) New Tabs will use Iframes, not FBML (end of the year)

Like Button Updates

Like with a Comment (Iframe only) – publishes to stream

Post to Likers of Graph Objects using Graph API:curl -F 'access_token=...' \

-F 'message=Hello Likers' \

-F 'id=http://www.myopengraphpage.com/page1.html' \

https://graph.facebook.com/feed

Track inbound traffic from Like button: New ref and source attributes

Misc

SDK Updates Facebook SDK for iOS (iPhone and iPad) updated with OAuth 2.0 and Graph API support Facebook C# SDK released with OAuth 2.0 and Graph API support Android SDK added Photo Upload support

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