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Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers

David Cohen — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:55:12 +0000

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps.

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BandsInTown Plans To Connect More Fans To Concerts Through Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:27:51 +0000

BandsInTown, the top concert-discovery application on Facebook, plans to deepen integration within the social network. The app, which reaches more than 20 million unique Facebook users per month, wants to connect more fans through concerts they’re planning to see. BandsInTown CEO Julien Mitelberg spoke with AllFacebook about how the app will use open graph technology to make Facebook users more aware of events featuring their favorite artists.

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Speculation Emerges About News Feed Changes Facebook Will Announce Thursday

David Cohen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:55:33 +0000

What changes to its news feed will Facebook unveil at its press event Thursday at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.? According to a Facebook employee, a social advertising industry source, and developers who spoke with TechCrunch, the big announcement involves new ways for users to filter their news feeds.

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Facebook Director of Engineering Mike Vernal Talks All Things Open Graph

David Cohen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:12:42 +0000

Facebook Director of Engineering Mike Vernal, who oversees the social network’s open graph platform, spoke with Ryan Tate of Wired about his goals for open graph, mobile usage of Facebook, and its app center.

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Facebook Rolls Gifts Out To More Users, Announces New Partners At FAO Schwarz Event

David Cohen — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:36:44 +0000

Tis the season for giving, and Facebook is on board, announcing at its rescheduled event at iconic toy store FAO Schwarz in New York Thursday night that its Gifts feature is being rolled out to more users, and introducing several new retail partners.

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Facebook Limits Use Of 'Listen' To Approved Partners

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:48:21 +0000

What’s the difference between listening to music and playing it? Plenty if you’re creating an application on Facebook.

Developers of music apps have an easier time getting Facebook to approve “play” than “listen.”

The latter requires the consent of the copyright holders, while the former doesn’t.

A Facebook spokesperson said via email:

Developers can submit any type of action for their app but we have a separate process in place for “listen” actions where we need to check that the developer has appropriate relationships in place with rights owners. We are updating our developer tool to make the submission process clearer over the coming days. In the meantime, interested music developers can reach out to musicdevelopers@fb.com with questions.

But the creator of MusicsTalk.com, Colin Costello, thinks Facebook unfairly rejected his request to use the open graph action “listen” and shunted him toward a supposedly inferior verb, “play,” for his app.

He said in an email exchange:

This is a huge advantage to sites like Rdio and Spotify, not only did they get use of the open graph way before everyone else, Facebook is restricting others from competing with them by not allowing them to use the action verb “listen.”

Yesterday I was approved for the verb “play.” It works, but isn’t as good as the verb “listen.” I personally think Musicstalk integrates better with Facebook than sites like Spotify, as there is no need to download any software to listen to music.

I wonder how many (other) actions are being reserved for their partners. That answer doesn’t really make any sense. If it’s a rights issue then why are developers allowed to use “play” without them checking to see if the appropriate relationships are in place with the rights owners? You’d think if the developer didn’t have the correct rights in place, Facebook would reject their action whether it was “listen,” “play” or “whatever.”

Readers, do you have any insights into this based on your experiences with music applications on Facebook?

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Music To Facebookers’ Ears: 'Listen With' Button Debuts In Chat Sidebar

David Cohen — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:48:55 +0000

Facebook announced plans to crank up the music by allowing users to listen to songs their friends are listening to, saying that it began rolling out the Listen With button today and will complete the task over the next few weeks.

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Facebook Silences Official Music Player, Discography

David Cohen — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:08:29 +0000

Facebook’s music player and Discography apps, the last traces of the long-rumored but never-launched music dashboard, went silent as of yesterday.

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