May was a busy month for Facebook and our Android developer community. We had a great time meeting many of you at AnDevCon Boston and at our Kickoff Party at Google I/O.

This month, we're out and about again at developer conferences around the world. Meet us at:

• Mobile DevCon: LATAM: Buenos Aires, June 3-4; Santiago, June 6-7. Mobile DevCon: LATAM is a community-run series of conferences in Argentina and Chile covering the latest in mobile and social app development. Developer advocates Luz Caballero and Prashant Sridharan will cover the latest Facebook mobile SDKs, and will host office hours for developers using Facebook to come and work through code-level issues in their apps.

• Le Web: London, June 5-6. Le Web is a European conference about innovation and entrepreneurship on the web. Join Julien Codorniou, our Head of European Platform Partnerships, for a panel discussion called "Ruling the App Store" to learn how to drive installation, engagement and monetization of mobile apps.

• Selenium Conference: Boston, June 10-12. The Selenium Conference brings together developers in the Selenium community to discuss the future of testing. Facebook engineer Damien Sereni will be speaking about how we use Selenium for automated testing in our twice-daily release process. His talk will focus on how we encouraged engineers to write good tests, how we keep the test quality high and how we use the tests during the release. He’ll also share some of the new tools we’re building for mobile testing.

• Parse Drinkup at WWDC: San Francisco, June 12. Join the Parse team for a lively event at the W San Francisco Hotel, featuring talks from some of our favorite partners and friends, an open bar, snacks, video games, music, and a few surprises. We're excited to chat with you about what you're building, and if you really love what we are working on, come talk to our talent team.

We're looking forward to meeting some of you this June. You can learn where we'll be in future months by checking out our calendar on Lanyrd.

People love sharing news articles with their friends. According a recent SimpleReach study, 23% of external traffic to news publishers comes from social networks. Facebook is the top source of social referrals:

Facebook's role in distributing news content is growing. According to a Pew Research study, Facebook traffic to major news websites more than doubled from 2011 to 2012. We've seen this growth continue, with our data showing overall external referrals up more than 50% in 2013.

We regularly work with news publishers to help them enable people to explicitly choose the news-related content that they share with friends. Below, we've highlighted three steps that news publishers can take to drive social referrals while giving their readers control over sharing on Facebook.

Add Like and Share to your website and app

The Like Button and Share Dialog are simple to integrate into your website yet extremely powerful. The Like button allows readers to show interest in articles with one click, while the Share Dialog lets them add their own commentary before posting articles to Facebook.

By adding both Like and Share to their website, Slate.com doubled its Facebook referral traffic between the second quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013

According to Pew Research, 47% of mobile users get news through social networks on a regular basis. To take advantage of this trend, we’ve introduced a new Share Dialog for iOS apps. Our redesigned dialog lets readers share links without requiring Facebook Login. The dialog will also be available for Android soon.

Our new iOS Share Dialog is easy to integrate, doesn't require Login, and lets people tag friends for additional distribution and context

Publish compelling stories for sharing on Facebook

According to SimpleReach, 67% of social referrals came from just 1% of articles. We’ve found that stories with attention catching headlines, large images, and detailed descriptions perform exceptionally well on Facebook.

Testing multiple headlines for each article helped Upworthy.com grow to 10 million unique visitors in one year

Grow an engaged, loyal following using your Facebook Page

Pages are a great way for news publishers to share stories and create an ongoing dialog with readers. Provide unique, visual content in your Page posts and seek feedback using comments. Use Page Insights to learn what content your audience cares about the most and iterate.

Metro.co.uk posts links with teaser content on their Page to entice readers to click through to the website

Learn more about growing Facebook traffic

To help news publishers understand how to get the most value from Facebook, we recently launched a new Facebook media portal with links to best practices guides and case studies. Please check these resources out below. We’ll continue to work with publishers on new ways to facilitate news discovery for the more than 1.1 billion people who use Facebook.

• Facebook portal for news publishers
• Best practice guides for journalists and Facebook pages
• Documentation on the Like Button, Share Dialog, and iOS Share Dialog
• Case studies for Slate, Upworthy, and Metro

In April and May we hosted over 1000 iOS, Android and Mobile Web developers in New York, London and Seoul for Mobile DevCon 2013.

Over the last year, we've been hard at work improving our Platform for mobile developers. Now, more than 81% of top 100 grossing iOS apps and 70% of top 100 grossing Android apps integrate with Facebook.

At Mobile DevCon we announced further improvements:

• The Object API and Object Browser which enable mobile developers to use Open Graph without the need for a web server
• An refreshed Login Dialog which is 20% faster, converts 5% better and looks great on tablets
• A new Native Share Dialog which lets users share rich Open Graph stories from your app without having to Login with Facebook.
• An updated Facebook SDK for iOS 3.5.1 which support these new features

We also announced the Facebook Technology Partners program, open-sourced our iOS and Android build tools: Buck and xctool, and released new targeting options for Mobile App Install Ads.

Video and slides online now

For those who couldn't attend, we recorded many of the talks, and have posted the slides from every session online for you to download. To view the videos and download all the slides, visit the event pages for New York, London or Seoul. These videos - and more - are also available on the Facebook Developers YouTube Channel.

Here's a summary of a few of the sessions:

Thank you from the Facebook Developers team

We really enjoyed connecting with the developer community at the three Mobile DevCon events. We heard some great feedback about our products which are helping shape the future of our roadmap. We look forward to meeting you at one of our future developer events.

Since last Wednesday's update, we showcased an improved share dialog on iOS that offers a lightweight and consistent way to enable sharing from your apps.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between 05/15/2013-05/22/2013:

Bugs activity

• 238 bugs were created
• 52 bugs were assigned
• 211 bugs were resolved
• 24 bugs were fixed
• 187 bug were were duplicate, invalid, or by design

Bugs fixed

• iOS SDK Framework bundle doesn't include SDK version information
• daed links
• Dead Link on the documentation page.
• More info needed
• should the NEXT_URL be redirect_uri
• Link to unexisting method
• Malformed Link
• CPA ad with link_click in action_spec Not Working
• Encoding error
• Messed up documentation with unnecessary html entity encoding
• CPA Offer Claim Ad Error on Creation
• User hometown and current location not returning latitude and longitude
• Deleting Requests link doesn't exist / point to anything
• Inconsistency in date representations events without a time
• Previously approved open graph actions do not appear, aggregations view gives Internal Server 500 Error
• Misspelled Categories in the left hand Nav bar
• page unreachable error on comments widget
• Is this or is this not deprecated?
• Reference to Aggregations may need to be updated
• Like button on website not showing correct count after migration
• Count of like button not equal to total_count in FQL
• New FB permission pages doesn't work with Symbian browser
• An internal error occurred while linting the URL
• Chrome on iPad: lFB login leaves you on a blank tab

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 312 questions asked
• 52 questions with a score of 1 or greater
• 11 answered, 21% answered rate
• 28 replied, 54% reply rate