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Facebook Developer Garage with Girls in TechAugust 31

41598_126223657424534_3568_n.jpgTo celebrate women in technology and provide education and community around building social experiences across the web, we’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Girls in Tech for our first joint 24-hour Facebook Developer Garage and Hackathon in Palo Alto. We hope developers in the Bay Area on September 11-12 will join us.

Here are the details:
What: Facebook Developer Garage - Girls in Tech
When: Saturday, September 11th - Sunday September, 12th
Time: 24 hours, Noon – Noon
Synopsis: Learn about the Graph API and how to create great social experiences from Facebook team members and tech luminaries. Attendees will then build their own social integration during a 24-hour Hackathon.

Facebook speakers:

  • Mike Schroepfer (VP of Engineering)
  • Sandra Liu Huang (Platform Product Marketing Manager)
  • Julie Tung (Platform Engineer)

Panelists, moderated by Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg and streamed on Facebook Live:

  • Jocelyn Goldfein (Dir. Engineering, Facebook)
  • Catherine Herdlick (Game Producer, Electronic Arts)
  • Sandy Jen (Founder, Meebo




Social From the Ground UpAugust 26

At Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a unique perspective can accomplish. We’ve already seen how a group of startups who built social interactions into the core of their product experience have completely changed how people play games online, and we think what has happened in the games market is just the beginning.

As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with developers, we’re partnering with Y Combinator -- an early stage venture firm -- to help encourage and support startups who want to build their business around a social experience. Y Combinator has already invested in companies at the forefront of new social experiences such as Scribd, Justin.tv and Divvyshot, a photo company we recently acquired.

We’ll provide product, technical and design resources to support new Y Combinator companies interested in working with us to build deeply social products, whether a website or an application on Facebook.com. These companies will have priority access to our technologies and programs such as Facebook Credits, Instant Personalization and upcoming beta features. Y Combinator will be publishing a “Request for Startup” focused on social startups and is now looking for interested entrepreneurs for their winter 2011 funding cycle.

In the near future, we think it will be hard to imagine a web exper

Facebook Platform Roadmap UpdateAugust 19

We announced a number of new products and updates to Facebook Platform at f8 in April, including the Graph API, social plugins, and support for OAuth 2.0. Over the next few months we will be making upgrades and removing infrequently used parts of Platform to support these new technologies at every level of the stack, while trying to minimize the amount of changes required for existing applications. To keep you posted on the latest efforts to simplify Platform, we've updated our developer roadmap and will continue to communicate upcoming changes through it.

Unifying Platform Tools for Applications and Websites

We have a vision for Facebook Platform that is powerful, standards-based, and easy to use across Facebook.com, the Web, and mobile devices. As part of this, we are unifying the Platform technologies used to build on Facebook.com — OAuth 2.0, the Graph API, and the JavaScript SDK — with the technologies used to integrate Facebook into external websites.

First, we are upgrading the authentication mechanism we use for all callback URLs to be based on OAuth 2.0. You can read more about the

Going Places with FacebookAugust 18

Today we released Places, a new way for people on Facebook to share where they are, see where their friends have checked in, and discover interesting places nearby. As part of the rollout, we're making Places available to developers via the Graph API, so you can integrate location features into your own mobile applications, websites, and applications on Facebook.

Once you are granted user permission, you can access a user and their friends' check ins on their behalf. More information on the Graph API can be found here.

Through the Graph API, developers can surface this data in their applications to create a variety of social experiences, such as:

  • A travel application that gives people the ability to see which of their friends have already been to the place they are visiting
  • A conference application that makes it easy for attendees to find colleagues and connect with them
  • An event application that enables attendees to see where their friends are at a concert

In the coming months, we will offer additional location features through the Graph API and the Open Graph protocol, including the ability to check in with Facebook through your application and discover places nearby. We're working with an initia

Extending the Developer Garage Program with IntelAugust 16

We're excited to announce that Intel is continuing its sponsorship of the Facebook Developer Garage Program. Last year, Intel sponsored 25 Developer Garages. Intel's developer program supports talented developers and is committed to fostering developer communities. Together, we will provide developers worldwide with some of the best resources for the next 30 Facebook Developer Garages.

Since Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Developer Garages have been grassroots efforts that bring local communities together to collaborate and hack with the latest Facebook social technologies. We've supported over 150 events in over 50 countries, reaching over 30,000 developers live and thousands more via live streams.

As part of our commitment to the Facebook Developer Garage Program, we're also announcing two additional new resources: