At the F8 conference in April, Facebook announced the launch of the “Like” button; a widget that enables users to make connections to pages of a website and share content with their friends. The widget allows users to Like specific content such as news stories, articles and photos; and with a bit more work, the [...]

Facebook has more than 3 million active pages, with 1.5 million maintained by local businesses. In total, these pages have more than 5.3 billion fans. These are impressive numbers, and show the extent to which Facebook has become a new major communications channel between brands and customers. However, despite the general view of fan behaviour [...]

A few weeks ago the Facebook Developer Garage organised a charity hackathon for Comic Relief. You can see more information at www.comicrelief-hackathon.com. It was kindly sponsored by Everycity, Microsoft and Adknowledge.
iPlatform teamed up with Wakari and Mo.Jo to produce the ‘Funny for Money’ application, which ended up winning the judges vote. The app has a [...]

Today we’re sending a virtual gift to everyone in the Facebook team. Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg started the social networking phenomenon in a Harvard dorm. Now, thousands of companies and individuals around the world are building exciting new businesses that use Facebook and other social networks to connect users and brands on a level [...]