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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 12:53am

Published by Julie Zhuo

Tonight we launched a stats page for applications in our effort to give you guys more information about how your apps are doing. Currently, the page displays some basic information about the number of adds, removes, blocks, and total users, as well as a summary of sampled HTTP requests for your app.

You can check out the application stats by following the “More Stats” link underneath your application name on the right-hand column of this page.

We’ll continue to add relevant and interesting data to the page as we can. In the meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for improvement or other stats that you’d like to see, please let us know on the wiki.

Monday, September 24, 2007 at 12:01pm

Published by Ami Vora

Hey folks – we’re always working to make Facebook Platform better and more stable, and we’ve set up a public bug tracking system on our developers site at http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/. There you can submit any bugs you find in Facebook Platform and track the status of existing bugs. That way you can see what’s happening on our side and we can use a standardized system to track improvements to Facebook Platform. We’ll do our best to frequently update bug status, but we’ll also need your help to correctly bucket bugs, track down duplicates, and help us prioritize by using your voting points. We may also make changes to the bug tracking system itself as we learn more about how we can use it most effectively. So let us know what we can do better, and thanks for developing!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 1:18am

Published by Marcel Georgés Laverdet II

Today we are moving Facebook Javascript (FBJS) out of beta and into version 1.0.

FBJS was built to empower you with the scripting functionality that you need to make your Facebook Platform applications more rich and interactive, while protecting Facebook users' privacy at the same time.

If you are already used to Javascript, you will find that most of the syntax and functionality that you have come to know and love (or hate) is available in FBJS. Additionally, we've created hooks into our higher-level AJAX and dialog implementations which allow you to easily create dynamic experiences while maintaining the look and feel of Facebook.

We hope that FBJS enables you to build deeply integrated Facebook Platform applications in new and interesting ways.

Happy Hacking!

Learn more about FBJS >

Friday, September 7, 2007 at 9:20pm

Published by Ari Steinberg

As promised, we're going to start the process of deprecating the notifications.sendRequest API function. The first phase of this starts tonight, as we roll out the new <fb:request-form> FBML tag.

Moving forward, the plan is to remove the notifications.sendRequest API function once we're satisfied that the majority of desirable request/invitation use cases are covered by FBML tags and that developers have had enough time to migrate (we're shooting for around 2-3 weeks from now).

The goal of this new system is to provide a flexible, consistent interface through which users can send requests and invitations, while at the same time saving developers the trouble of tweaking out this UI so that you can focus instead on building cool applications. For more information about how the new system works, please check out the wiki. If you have any feedback about the new tags, please leave it on the wiki's discussion pages - we'll try to keep an eye on them.