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We wrapped up 2009 with a multitude of developer events worldwide. The Facebook team started the month in Paris, France, at the Le Web conference focused on the real-time Web. Ethan Beard, the Director of the Facebook Developer Network, gave a keynote on “Connecting in the Social Web" and anno...

We close the year with important updates to the new JavaScript SDK, stream publishing policies, and stream API methods; a quartet of new FQL tables; and the new dashboard API, among other highlights. New FeaturesWe've released four new FQL tables: family, developer, video, video_tag.We also relea...

As we look toward a new year, we’d like to look back at some examples of startups and established companies, including those from Facebook's own fbFund program, that built their businesses on Facebook Platform and with Facebook Connect, and made significant strides in funding, acquisitions, and ...

We've shipped a prototype implementation of the emerging OAuth WRAP specification on FriendFeed. If you're a developer working with RESTful APIs, you'll want to check this out!OAuth is a technology that can be thought of as a user's "valet key" for the Web. Just as you... don't share your Facebook ...

We're excited to release the first update to our open source Facebook Connect JavaScript SDK, currently in alpha. The SDK has two key pieces of new functionality: basic support for XFBML and an advanced data layer for optimizing FQL queries.We launched the SDK last month, and in that short amount...

As we pass the December 16th and 20th deadlines for enforcement of our new Developer Principles and Policies, we wanted to talk more about Facebook Platform's principles, including the role they play in enforcement, the creation of policies, and how you should use Platform. The Developer Principl...

We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations who are looking for the best resources to start building an application on Facebook.com, optimize a Facebook Connect integration or build a Facebook Page. To help you accelerate your efforts, we are introducing the Preferred De...

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Check out how Facebook Connect is making everyday activities more social by adding friends.

With this week's code push we've released the Dashboard API and the family FQL table, updated some API calls so they work without session keys, and soon will start returning English-only strings for three fields in the user FQL table.Breaking Change for non-English Applications Querying user FQL ...