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Facebook Developer News March 16, 2010March 16

We're excited to announce a number of new features this week, including ways to retrieve friends, applications, and Pages a user has tagged in a post; to query the stream without the read_stream extended permission; and more.

Querying Tagged Items in Status Posts

Starting after the Wednesday, March 17th push, you can query the stream_tag FQL table to return associations between users or Facebook Pages and the items they tag in status posts. Every field in the table (actor_id, target_id, and post_id) is indexable, and each takes an array, so you can query the table in various ways to determine:

• All the friends, Pages, events, and other Facebook objects one or more users has tagged in posts.
• All the posts in which a user has tagged something.
• All the users who have tagged a given object in a post.

Querying the stream Table for Public Data

The stream FQL table now returns public data (viewable by everyone on Facebook) if you query it without any extended permissions. As before, if the user granted your application the read_stream extended permission, you can access additional data from the user's stream.

Enabling Users

f8 Registration: Now OpenMarch 11

We are opening registration today for f8, Facebook's conference where developers and entrepreneurs collaborate on the future of personalized and social technologies.

We hope you will join us on April 21st, 2010, at the Concourse at San Francisco Design Center for a day of learning about the latest Facebook technologies and connecting with other developers. To get your ticket for the event, please visit the f8 Facebook Page and click the "Register" tab.

Members of the Facebook team and the developer community will explore a variety of topics across these areas:

• New Tools: Everything you need to know about our new tools
• Techniques: Best practices for building fast, scalable, and engaging products
• Industry: Engineers, VCs, and entrepreneurs share strategies for growing a business and making technologies social
• Open Technologies: Facebook's open source projects

We expect f8 to sell out quickly, so register soon to guarantee your spot. Check back to the f8 Page regularly for the latest updates. Tickets are $325 now and

Connect with Us at SXSW InteractiveMarch 8

The Facebook team is heading to the SXSW Interactive Festival this week in Austin, Texas. Whether you'll be there in person, or can join us online, we hope that you'll be a part of the excitement too.

We'll be participating in panels and events to discuss the latest in building with Facebook with some of the best innovators and developers in the industry. If you won't be able to make it to Austin this year, you can watch our Facebook Developer Garage via live stream on Sunday, March 14, beginning at 2:00PM CST.

SXSW Panels and Events

Note: All times are Central Standard Time.

Friday, March 12th
Panel: Securing Web Behemoths - Web Applications That Are Large

• Facebook Speaker: Ryan McGeehan
• Time: 5:00 PM
• Location: Austin Convention Center, Ballroom A
• Overview: An industry panel of security engineering managers will discuss their approaches to securing giant websites, and share insights on the tools they use and how their efforts can be applied at other companies.

Saturday, March 13th
Talk: Designing the First Fifteen Minutes

Expanding the Preferred Developer Consultant ProgramMarch 8

We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations who are looking for the best resources to start building an application on Facebook.com, optimize a Facebook Connect integration, or build a Facebook Page. To help you accelerate your efforts, we introduced the Preferred Developer Consultant program in December to connect companies and brands to the resources they need to build with Facebook products and technologies.

We are excited to see the growing ecosystem of businesses that have been created around supporting innovation on Facebook, and today we're expanding this program to recommend 35 additional developers who can help you build world-class social experiences both on Facebook and around the Web. The program now has nearly 50 consultants in 15 countries. Over half of the new Preferred Developer Consultants have international operations and have already built campaigns, community portals, and other social applications in countries like Israel, Lithuania, and Czech Republic.

Continuing to Simplify Facebook: Removing Application NotificationsFebruary 26

When we launched Facebook Platform in 2007 there were just 40 million users on Facebook. Since then, in less than three years, more than 350 million users have joined Facebook, and more than one million developers like you have created more than 500,000 applications. With this additional scale came greater complexity. We announced last October a set of efforts to help make interactions with applications more streamlined, clear, and less spammy for users. We also launched our developer roadmap so that you would always have access to the latest information regarding upcoming changes.

We wanted to check in today to let you know how things are going, and what's to come.

Streamlining Communication Channels

As part of our efforts to improve the quality of your communications with users, we have launched features such as the Applications and Games dashboards, the ability to request user email addresses and an "Add Bookmark" button. Beginning next Monday, March 1, 2010, at 10AM Pacific time, Facebook will no longer deliver application notifications and will dis