Facebook announced last week its plans to open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing anyone to create extendable widgets for use on Facebook pages. These widgets could be for fun—such as ...

This week, a handful of academic researcher teams will gain access to a new tool from Facebook designed to aggregate near-universal real-time data on the world’s biggest social network. When it comes ...

Upcast Social is a London-based marketing firm specializing in managing Facebook campaigns. It was one of the early companies to be certified as a preferred marketing developer (PMD) for the Facebook ...

Probably about 5 months ago I had a conversation with someone at Facebook about licensing their API. The beauty of Facebook, as opposed to Myspace and other social networks is that the people on there ...

Facebook's application programming interface lets you create apps to maintain your business' group page without sitting down at a computer and logging into the social networking site. Using this API ...

Despite repeated concerns over Facebook's privacy policies, the social network is giving third-party app makers even more access to your private information, as a new API hands over your phone number ...

Following the updates to Instagram and Messenger that delivered cross-app communication and other features, Facebook today announced its Messenger API has also been updated to allow businesses to ...

Today, Facebook announced new API restrictions for apps. These changes are intended to continue helping developers create apps that the Facebook user base enjoys while also protecting the data and ...

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Facebook launched a new set of APIs on Monday that allow third-party software to interact with the Facebook activity stream. Developers can use these new APIs to build sophisticated Facebook client ...