Choosing the Right Ad Networks
Applications on Facebook Platform are businesses, and we want those businesses to succeed. That's why there area variety of ways to monetize your applications, including using third-party providers offering services to help you along the way. In an effort to keep you informed on the best ways to adhere to our policies and principles, while continuing to grow your business on Facebook Platform, we've created a list of monetization providers that are no longer permitted to operate on Facebook Platform or Facebook.com. These providers have violated

Join Us at Le Web!
The Facebook team will say bon jour to Paris at the annual technology conference, Le Web on December 9th and 10th, where we’ll discuss the latest in the real time Web. If you plan on attending, we hope you can join us for a discussion with Ethan Beard, Director of the Facebook Developer Network, who is delivering a keynote on Wednesday. We’re also co-hosting Facebook Developer Garage Paris – Le Web edition with Netvibes, which is open and free to all developers. Please see our Facebook event for more information. You can find the latest updates from conference

Update on Simpler Policies and Enhanced Enforcement
When we announced the Developer Roadmap, we also simplified our policies by replacing the Facebook Platform Guidelines with the new Developer Principles and Policies, and posted Examples and Explanations for guidance on putting policy into practice. Our goal is to make it easy to understand our policies, so you can invest your time developing great applications instead of puzzling over rules. We've all seen applications build long-term businesses by staying f

Facebook Platform News 11/17/09
We're releasing some updates to stream story formatting, FQL, and finding fans this week. These changes are going live with the weekly code push, which takes place Tuesday evening, Pacific Time. Switching from the video Attachment Type We're removing all reference to the video attachment type in stream stories. You should use the flash attachment type, since the flash type gives you more control over how your stories render. While we'll continue to publish stories that u

Evolving OAuth via the Open Web Foundation
Over the past few years, we've worked hard to open source large pieces of our infrastructure such as Thrift, Scribe, and Hive, as we continue to take steps to support the open community and build a scalable, secure, and sustainable identity platform. Along with the code itself, what makes it possible for you to freely use these technologies is a set of well known open source software licenses such as Apache, BSD, and GPL. When it comes to open standards, this same sort of legal structure does not yet exist. About a year ago, we supported the creation of the Ope