http://www.facebookmirror.com Facebook blog covering all aspects of facebook including applications, advertising, future development, news and more! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:27:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I agree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterday’s Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was in the end a snoozer, but not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg failed on stage. First of all, saying the event itself was sleep-inducing is just factually incorrect. Before and ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/24/facebook-takes-the-fast-lane-to-boring/ In speaking with Peter Corbett with iStrategyLabs the other day over dinner, we realized that there was one missing opportunity on Facebook which could be used to help brands and their pages get promoted more effectively. If users could tag brand instances the same way that you can currently ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/24/facebook%e2%80%99s-missed-brand-opportunity/ Yesterday, the Telegraph reported about a woman who had her identity stolen on Facebook. The strategy is simply: create another profile of a person but have inaccurate data about them in their profile. When people search for the user they end up finding a false version of their ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/08/facebook-prostitutes-the-new-facebook-scam/ Facebook has posted updated details. on what panels will take place at their F8 event in San Francisco Later this month. Aside from a keynote by Mark Zuckerberg which will announced all of the new features on the platform, there will be three tracks that developers can take. ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/08/updated-details-on-f8-event/ Five days ago, the Facebook Platform policy team made waves throughout the developer community by suspending Slide’s Top Friends application, the third largest application by daily active users, for a privacy violation of the Developer Terms of Service. Tonight, it appears that another Top 25 Facebook app has disappeared from the ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/07/another-big-app-disappears-this-time-it%e2%80%99s-social-me-2/ It’s now been 5 days since Slide’s Top Friends application disappeared from the Facebook Platform as a result of an apparent Developer Terms of Service violation. This suspension is the most severe punitive action imposed by the Facebook Platform team that the development community has seen yet, and is at ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/07/facebook%e2%80%99s-evolving-approach-to-platform-governance-2/ Five days ago, the Facebook Platform policy team made waves throughout the developer community by suspending Slide’s Top Friends application, the third largest application by daily active users, for a privacy violation of the Developer Terms of Service. Tonight, it appears that another Top 25 Facebook app has disappeared from the ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/07/another-big-app-disappears-this-time-it%e2%80%99s-social-me/ It’s now been 5 days since Slide’s Top Friends application disappeared from the Facebook Platform as a result of an apparent Developer Terms of Service violation. This suspension is the most severe punitive action imposed by the Facebook Platform team that the development community has seen yet, and is at ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/07/07/facebook%e2%80%99s-evolving-approach-to-platform-governance/ This month, we're rolling out Inbox search, a tool which allows you to search through all of your messages either by name of the person who sent it, or by a keyword that shows up in the text. Ever had a friend send you a Facebook message suggesting a good ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/06/22/inbox-search/ Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing all methods of verification, especially for high ... http://www.facebookmirror.com/2008/06/22/welcome-to-facebook-homeschoolers/