Rumors began surfacing in March that Facebook would add a Twitter staple, hashtags, and now developer Tom Waddington uncovered evidence that the social network is getting closer to incorporating the feature in the form of a mention of “hashtag” in the software-development kit for JavaScript.
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Facebook continued its efforts to boost the speed of its social plugins, with Software Engineer Stoyan Stefanov detailing in a post on his blog how he was able to double the speed of the social network’s recommendations plugin.
Cloud application platform Parse, which was acquired by Facebook in April, announced the launch of Parse Hosting Tuesday, joining its four existing offerings — Parse Data, Parse Social, Parse Push, and Cloud.
Facebook has been acquiring plenty of talent to help the company grow on mobile. Earlier this week, Facebook acquired the team behind Spaceport, and Thursday, the social network purchased Parse, a cloud application platform for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and OS X. This is an acquisition, not a talent hire, and financial terms were not disclosed.
Facebook’s mobile efforts got a push recently as the company acquired the team behind Spaceport, which creates the technology behind mobile games and applications, as well as JavaScript, HTML 5 and ActionScript. Spaceport will continue to run under co-founder Peter Relan, but the bulk of the team will join Facebook.
Developers like speed, and Facebook obliged by revamping its like box, saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the plugin is now two to four times faster after being rebuilt from the ground up.
Attention, Google Chrome users: There is no such thing as a “business” Flash player, and downloading any browser extensions billed as such will bring some serious malware with it.
Facebook Software Developer Pamela Vagata offered a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Facebook Messenger for Firefox’s Social API in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.
Do you want a want button on Facebook? Your desires may be met, as developer Tom Waddington discovered an XFBML tag for one within the Facebook JavaScript software development kit.
It even sounds pornographic: Self-inflicted JavaScript injection was the method used to trigger the explosion of not-safe-for-work posts on Facebook earlier this week.
