Facebook Future plans revealed

Kyle — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:45:33 +0000

Social Networking Giant Facebook gives more ways to developers to become more productive in the future. Features and functionality will be enriched in the future as stated in the facebook developer blog when they released their new roadmap for the coming days.

For new and experienced developers it’s a great chance for them to create new ideas based from the roadmap they released. Although it’s still far from implementation, I bet that newbies are getting interested in learning to make facebook applications and some facebook integration in their web projects. More and more websites are now getting connected to facebook and I believe that this trend will continue to rise.

Heres a detailed explanation of the new developer products and clear policies copied from facebook developer blog.

Open Graph API. Any page on the Web can have many of the features of a Facebook Page – users can become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.
Improved Application Insights Page and new Analytics API. We will provide improved tools with more robust data to better adjust and manage applications and Facebook Connect-enabled websites.
New Facebook Connect Libraries. Our libraries will be smaller, clearer, and faster.
New developer website, Platform Live Status, and public roadmap. Developers.facebook.com will include a central dashboard to view the health of various integration points, bugs and Platform uptime as well as detail about upcoming changes and improvements to Platform. You will also be able to subscribe to the Developer Blog and Status Feed via email.
New principles, simplified policies, Verification standards for all. We have streamlined our policies and principles and will be proactively applying them widely across Platform. In addition, we’re retiring the formerly optional Application Verification brand, submission process, fees and badge; the program’s higher standards will be required and applications will be subject to review at any time.

Google Social Search up and live today

Kyle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:18:34 +0000

The launch of Google Social Search today will power Google search results with social networking data from your profiles. This will result to increase in visibility with your contacts and connections since their status updates,blogs and anything related to their social life will be pulled out by Google. I’m really not excited with their service since I’m not that curious to the people around my social circle. I usually log to my social networking hubs and check them since it’s the place where I mostly hang out online with the exception of my blog. The good news about this one is that if you have a wide expansion of you social profiles then you’ll have a difficult time checking them.So basically Google search will simplify things a bit to get you out of the hassle in logging in with your social accounts. Here’s a video of Matt Cutts discussing how Google social search works and another video on a quick google social search demonstration.

What’s really cool about social search is that you’ll have more relevant search results if your friends are really active in their social networking activity. Just remember that you have to provide links in your google profile on which social networking will you want to be crawled. Google social search is not enabled by default they’ll be needing your participation on what social network they will be starting.

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Facebook Future plans revealed

Google Social Search up and live today