At the end of 2009, Facebook announced its most recent statistics revealing that sharing on the site increased 500% in just six months, with the average user sharing 12 pieces of content each week.
With 400 million users - 50% of which log in the network website every day – increasingly using the site as a tool [...]

The Facebook Developer Garage will start 2010 bringing the Future to agencies, developers and social media types attending its first event of the year! The gathering will happen on February 24th and promises a close look at the year ahead and possible developments in areas such as brands, monetization, mobile, game developers, etc.
A few weeks [...]

After Facebook updated their competition and promotion guidelines towards the end of last year, there was a lot of confusion surrounding the ability to require users to be fans of a fan page before they could enter a competition. The guidelines weren’t clear, and seemed to suggest that you could restrict users from entering the [...]

Facebook has now allowed advertisers to target ads to the friends of their connections. Up until now, they could only target their own connections, which means exclusively the actual fans of their Pages, users of their Applications, members of their Groups and attendees of their Events.

With the new targeting, friends of these connections  who see the ads [...]

Facebook has announced new guidelines to “govern the publicizing or administering of any sweepstakes, contest, competition or other similar offerings” on the social networking website.
With the new rules, it is now not acceptable to use the Facebook features to directly engage in such promotions, and instead they must use a third party application to run [...]

Yesterday, and in the “spirit of being as open and transparent as possible”, Facebook announced several changes to its platform. Amongst them, developer access to user email addresses, a focus on communication through the stream and inbox, a simplified navigation, more prominent new dashboards and newo Open Graph and Analytics APIs.
A few things to watch [...]

We get questions about Facebook search all the time, so let us share a Frequently Asked Questions on this topic sent to us by Facebook.

In a new post by Brian Solis, he collates some interesting stats about Facebook. These include:

Every month, more than 70% of users engage with applications developed for the Facebook platform
There are more than 350,000 active applications currently available on the Facebook Platform
Over 200 applications maintain an active monthly user base of more than one million
15,000, [...]

Facebook have released a new feature in their advertising platform allowing you to targets users connected to your fan pages, applications, groups or events. This potentially could be powerful as a way of promoting new content to users, maintaining interest, and cross selling. Although we always recommend seeding content, applications and features directly to your [...]

Facebook have just a released the ‘Fan Box’, a simple to integrate (just a few lines of javascript) connection between your own domain and your Facebook fan page. With the box, visitors to your website will be able to easily see the wall posts and updates made from your fan page, and will be able [...]