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We've all been there—spending hours in front of the TV, getting lost clicking through hundreds of channels, just to realize that you haven't really watched anything at all. The best way to stay out of the TV weeds is to get recommendations from your friends, who can help answer the age-old question, "What's on tonight?"

Today, we're announcing a partnership with Clicker, an Internet television guide, to help you instantly discover new shows based on what you and your friends have liked on Facebook and other websites. Now you can spend less... time channel surfing and more time socializing—no remotes, listings or passwords required.

Few things are better than connecting with friends and family, especially when you're far apart. Skype provides a great way to communicate with people no matter where they are. And starting today, it's also making it easier for you to connect with your Facebook friends.

When you install the new Skype version 5.0 for Windows and sign in with Facebook, you can easily call or SMS your friends. You also can check out your News Feed, update your status, and like and comment on posts directly within Skype.

UPDATE on Tuesday, May 24: Bing has rolled out their social search features more broadly. Now more people can see what their friends have liked when searching on Bing.com. Learn more about the new features here and go to bing.com to check it out for yourself.

Search is about finding information to help you make decisions. Every day, most of us make decisions with input from people we trust. I ask people I work with where to find the best coffee in town; I ask my parents whether I should buy a house; I talk to my friends about the best fall... television shows.

The biggest problem in social networking is helping you easily interact with your friends and share information in lots of different contexts.

For example, you might want to share photos from a family vacation with just your family, send a video from a party to just the people who were there, invite coworkers to an office event, play a game with a few friends, or use a running website with your friends who like jogging.

While it's rare we read together, reading can be social. People share articles on Facebook, form book clubs, get book recommendations from friends, and debate and discuss news stories. Now Scribd, a social reading and publishing site, is making it easier to find great reads through the help of your friends.  

Starting today, when you visit Scribd while logged into Facebook, you will see personalized reading recommendations based on what your friends are sharing and on your Facebook likes and interests. And when you find something that you... enjoy, with a simple click of the Like button, you can quickly and easily share it with your friends. Through instant personalization, Scribd will use the public information you share with your friends on Facebook to personalize your reading experience. You can learn more about the instant personalization program here.

Last month, we announced a number of changes to make privacy simpler and to give you more control over the information you share with other people. Today, we're taking the next step by providing more transparency and control over the information you share with third-party applications and websites with a new, simpler application authorization process.

The majority of people on Facebook actively interact with applications and Facebook-integrated websites every month. In order for these applications and websites to provide social and customized... experiences, they need to know a little bit about you. We understand, however, that it's important that you also have control over what you're sharing. With this new authorization process, when you log into an application with your Facebook account, the application will only be able to access the public parts of your profile by default. To access the private sections of your profile, the application has to explicitly ask for your permission.

For example, JibJab is an interactive greeting card website that needs access to my photos and my friends' birthdays and photos so I can create personalized greeting cards. Based on the new model, JibJab must specifically ask for that information.

We recently launched simplified privacy settings in response to feedback that certain Facebook settings had become too complicated. We hope that most of you have had a chance to check them out and find the ones that are right for you as you share and connect with your friends and people around you.

As we rolled out the new settings, we asked you to share feedback about them and ask questions about how privacy works on Facebook. Many of you did, and we wanted to share the answers to some of your most common questions.

We're also continuing our "...Learn More" video series that offers tutorials on Facebook privacy settings. Today, we've launched the third video. Watch it to learn more about the controls for applications and websites:

We've had an amazing response to our announcements from last week as more and more people engage with social and personalized experiences on other websites and services. We've also heard many questions and wanted to answer the most common ones here to explain in more detail how a new set of tools—called social plugins—work.

Using social plugins, websites everywhere can give you more ways to experience the web with your friends—from letting you form connections on these sites with your favorite movies or restaurants to showing you the most... popular content based on what is being shared among your friends. Rather than seeing popular stories, products or reviews from people you don't know, you'll now see content that matters to you the most—from your friends—prominently displayed.

These new plugins, introduced on more than 75 sites and services last week, offer you the same control over what you can see and what you can share as you already have on Facebook. Our highest priority is to keep and build the trust of the more than 400 million people who use our service every month. To do so, we've developed powerful tools to give people control over what information they want to share, when they want to share it and with whom.

For more information on some of the websites currently using social plugins, visit the Facebook Platform showcase. Answers to more questions are also available in our site tour and Help Center.

What are social plugins?

Social plugins are simple tools that can be "dropped" into any website to provide people with personalized and social experiences. As we announced previously, you will start noticing these new tools on other websites in a few different formats:

• "Like" or "Recommend" buttons: Click to publicly share and connect with content you find interesting.



• Activity Feed: What your friends are liking, commenting on or sharing on a site.



• Recommendations: Most liked content among your friends on a site.

How do the plugins work?

While these buttons and boxes appear on other websites, the content populating them comes directly from Facebook. The plugins were designed so that the website you are visiting receives none of this information. These plugins should be seen as an extension of Facebook.

You only see a personalized experience with your friends if you are logged into your Facebook account. If you are not already logged in, you will be prompted to log in to Facebook before you can use a plugin on another site.

At a technical level, social plugins work when external websites put an iframe from Facebook.com on their site—as if they were agreeing to give Facebook some real estate on their website. If you are logged into Facebook, the Facebook iframe can recognize you and show personalized content within the plugin as if the visitor were on Facebook.com directly. Even though the iframe is not on Facebook, it is designed with all the privacy protections as if it were.

What information about me does Facebook share with the websites hosting social plugins?

None of your information—your name or profile information, what you like, who your friends are, what they have liked, what they recommend—is shared with the sites you visit with a plugin. Because they have given Facebook this "real estate" on their sites, they do not receive or interact with the information that is contained or transmitted there. Similarly, no personal information about your actions is provided to advertisers on Facebook.com or on the other site.

How do I recognize a Facebook social plugin on another site?

You'll recognize them by the branding in the footer that resembles similar features on Facebook—the "f" icon is next to the phrase, "Facebook social plugin." The phrase is a hyperlink to a landing page describing the product.

What am I sharing when I click a Like or Recommend button on external websites?

The Like and Recommend buttons on other sites work in a similar way to the "Share" buttons from Facebook and other services that you've likely seen on the web for years. These buttons enable you to publicly express your interest in some piece of content with a simple action, similar to how you might rate a restaurant or movie on a site today. Nothing happens unless you choose to click the buttons, and you must be logged into Facebook before you can use them.

When you click "Like" or "Recommend," the button turns darker to indicate that you like or recommend something and are making a public connection to it. Back on Facebook, a story will post to your profile and may appear in your friends' News Feeds in the same way as if you had liked something on Facebook. You can click "Like" again if you wish to remove the like.

Your likes and recommendations also may appear to your friends on the website where you clicked the button and elsewhere through other Facebook social plugins appearing on websites—such as Activity Feed or Recommendations. Some sites may also give you the option to add a comment when you like or recommend something.

In some cases, when you create a connection to a real-world entity, such as a book, movie or athlete, your likes and recommendations become a part of your profile in the same way as the connections you make with Pages on Facebook. They will appear in your "Likes and Interests" section of your profile, and you may receive updates from that connection in News Feed.

For more examples of how the Like buttons and other social plugins work on different sites, read our previous blog post.

Will people beyond my friends see what I like or recommend?

Yes, you should consider the likes and recommendations you choose to make to be public information, much like when you comment or write a review on any website today or connect with a public Facebook Page. Based on feedback we've received, though, we are updating the social plugins we announced last week—Like, Activity Feed and Recommendations—to only display your friends' names and profile pictures and to show the likes and recommendations from people who aren't your friends in an aggregated format ("10 people like this").

When a like makes a connection in your profile, you can control who can see that in your Facebook profile by editing your "Friends, Tags and Connections" settings on your Privacy Settings page. Remember that even if you limit the visibility of a connection, it remains as public information and may appear in other places on Facebook.com or be accessed by applications and websites.

Depending on the connection you made, you can remove a connection completely either by going to the "Info" tab of your profile and editing your "Likes and Interests," or by returning to the web page where you liked something and unliking it.

Why do some of the things I like from other websites appear in my "Likes and Interests" section of my profile, while others don't?

Social plugins are a common set of tools from Facebook to bring social and personalized experiences to other websites you visit. However, each website may choose to implement them in different ways.

In some cases, your likes and recommendations become a part of your profile in the "Info" tab in the same way as the connections you make with Pages on Facebook. This occurs when you like or recommend a real-world entity, such as a book, movie or athlete, where it makes more sense to form a lasting relationship.

Why do I see some of my friends' names and thumbnails of their profile pictures on other sites?

Social plugins personalize your experience on others sites based on your Facebook friends. When one of your friends has chosen to like or recommend something on a site and you are logged into Facebook, you may see that fact appear along with a small thumbnail of your friend's profile picture.



This is personalized just for you. Every Facebook user who comes to a site will have a different, personalized experience based on who they are friends with on Facebook. This is similar to how your home page on Facebook.com works, where you see a News Feed unique to your network of friends.

Are there any new privacy controls for social plugins?

These new features follow the same privacy settings as those we already had in place on Facebook. For example, you can control how information is shared on Facebook.com on your Privacy Settings page under "Posts by Me," and you can change which connections are visible on your profile under "Things I Like." For both, you can set controls to "Everyone," "Friends and Networks," "Friends of Friends," "Only Friends," or "Customize" to use Friend Lists or to include or exclude specific people.

Remember that, even if you change your settings for what is shared or shown on Facebook, likes and recommendations made on other sites become publicly available information, similar to a public comment on a website. Only click the Like or Recommend buttons if you want to share your likes and recommendations publicly.

How is this different from the "Log in with Facebook" or "Connect" features I see across the Web?

If you want to interact more deeply with a website, on some sites you'll see ways to login or sign in to that site using your Facebook information. This capability has been available since July 2008 and was previously called Facebook Connect. It provides you with ways to share your information with other websites and find your friends. In these cases, you are establishing a relationship directly with these websites and sharing your information with them after you choose to sign in; this includes your data from social plugins.

Why does a blue bar appear on some sites telling me it's being personalized by Facebook?

Separate from our social plugins, we have established a small pilot program with an exclusive set of partners—Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora and Yelp—to offer personalized experiences as soon as you visit those services. These partners have been given access to public information on Facebook—such as names, friend lists and interests and likes—to personalize your experience when you're logged into Facebook and visit their sites.

When you first visit any of these three partner sites while logged into Facebook, you'll see a blue bar appear at the top of the site letting you know that your experience is being personalized. You can learn more about it, remove the personalized experience or click "x" to remove the bar. If you don't want your experience personalized on this limited number of sites, you can opt out by going to "Application and Websites" on your Privacy Settings page and editing the "Instant Personalization" setting.



These partners were carefully chosen, reviewed and are contractually required to respect people's privacy preferences. Additionally, they are required to provide an easy and prominent method for opting out directly from their website and to delete data if people choose to opt out.

We hope you'll give these new social and personalized experiences a try to see what's possible when you're friends are with you on the web.


Austin, a Facebook product manager, is helping you bring your friends with you around the web.

Facebook has always focused on building ways for people to connect with each other and share information with their friends. We think this is important because people are shaping how information moves through their connections. People are increasingly discovering information not just through links to web pages but also from the people and things they care about.

This flow of social information has profound benefits—from driving better decisions to keeping in touch more easily—and we're really proud that Facebook is part of the shift toward more... social and personalized experiences everywhere online.

Three years ago at our first f8 conference for developers, I introduced the concept of the social graph, which is the idea that if you mapped out all the connections between people and the things they care about, it would form a graph that connects everyone together. Facebook has focused mostly on mapping out the part of the graph around people and their relationships.

At the same time, other sites and services have been mapping out other parts of the graph so you can get relevant information about different types of things. For example, Yelp maps out the best local businesses and Pandora maps out which songs are related to each other.

All of these connections are important parts of the social graph, but until now it hasn't been possible to easily share the connections you make on sites like Yelp or Pandora with your friends on Facebook. And you haven't been able to bring your friends from Facebook to share experiences on these sites or personalize them to you.

Today at our third f8, we are making it so all websites can work together to build a more comprehensive map of connections and create better, more social experiences for everyone. We have redesigned Facebook Platform to offer a simple set of tools that sites around the web can use to personalize experiences and build out the graph of connections people are making.



This next version of Facebook Platform puts people at the center of the web. It lets you shape your experiences online and make them more social. For example, if you like a band on Pandora, that information can become part of the graph so that later if you visit a concert site, the site can tell you when the band you like is coming to your area. The power of the open graph is that it helps to create a smarter, personalized web that gets better with every action taken.

We think that the future of the web will be filled with personalized experiences. We've worked with three pre-selected partners—Microsoft Docs, Yelp and Pandora—to give you a glimpse of this future, which you can access without having to login again or click to connect. For example, now if you're logged into Facebook and go to Pandora for the first time, it can immediately start playing songs from bands you've liked across the web. And as you're playing music, it can show you friends who also like the same songs as you, and then you can click to see other music they like.

We look forward to a future where all experiences are this easy and personalized, and we're happy today to take the next important step to get there.

Every month more than 70 percent of you interact with applications on Facebook, and we want to ensure that you have the best possible experience with them. We recently added a number of features to make it easier for you to use applications, such as the Applications and Games dashboards which are linked to on the home page, and the ability to share your email address with applications.

All of these updates are aimed at giving you more control over how applications can communicate with you. That is why beginning today, you will begin seeing... updates from applications in the latest channels we've added, instead of through notifications.

Staying connected to applications on Facebook is important to many of you, so we wanted to share the best ways you can continue to get updates from applications:

• Check the Applications and Games dashboards for the latest news: The dashboards help you manage your application activity and discover new applications that your friends are using.


• Bookmark applications: The applications you've bookmarked can alert you via counters on the home page when there is a new action for you to take.


• Grant applications permission to email you: You can share you email address with applications to receive updates, such as newsletters, in your email inbox.


• Become a fan of application Facebook Pages: Once you're a fan of an application, you can hear directly from it through stories it posts to your News Feed, and Updates sent to your Facebook Inbox.

Example of a News Feed story from the Diner Dash Page.

We will continue working to enhance your experience with applications and provide a streamlined environment for you to connect with your friends. Please keep letting us know how we're doing.


Austin, a Facebook product manager, just clicked a counter that reminded him to take his turn in his Scrabble game.

Facebook is designed to give you control over the information you share, and today we're making available some of our most recent privacy controls to applications on Facebook and websites and services using Facebook Connect.

Last December, we launched a control that many of you had requested for some time—the ability to customize privacy for each piece of content you share on Facebook.com through the Publisher, including status updates, links, photos and videos. Today, we are responding to your continued feedback by extending that same level of... control to content shared through applications.

There are now granular privacy options that enable you to personalize the audience for each piece of content you share through applications. Simply select the group of people you want to share with from the drop-down menu near the lock icon on the Publisher on your home page or profile, or the prompts that appear when you share from applications or Facebook Connect websites.

For example, maybe you don't want all of your friends to see the humorous greeting card you just posted from an application. Now you can set that post to be viewable only by certain friends.


Alternatively, there are some posts you may want to share with the broadest audience possible, such as information on an important organization you're supporting in the Causes application.


These new controls give you the power to determine who sees the content you post to Facebook through any third-party application, whether it is on Facebook.com, your desktop, mobile phone, or from a Facebook Connect website or service. Seesmic, a desktop application from which you can view and update your News Feed, will soon offer extended privacy options so you can specify audiences for each update you make from the application, such as uploaded photos and status updates.

Applications on Facebook.com and external websites and services using Facebook Connect implementations have always respected your privacy based on what you've set in the "Posts by Me" setting on your Privacy Settings page. This setting will continue to be your default setting for all posts, and you can change it at any time.

You may also start to see additional prompts in applications asking if you'd like to set privacy for certain pieces of content that differ from your default setting. Whether you choose to keep your default setting on everything you share or change the audience for different pieces of content, the choice is yours.

We look forward to continuing to provide tools that give you more control over your information. Please keep your comments and suggestions coming.


Ray, an engineer on the Facebook Platform team, is sharing a Someecard that is not safe for mom.

Starting today, you'll have a new way to stay connected to your favorite applications on Facebook.

As we work to make the site as simple and efficient as possible, we're giving you the opportunity to receive updates from applications in your email inbox, such as your MSN, Yahoo! or Gmail accounts, similar to how you may receive email notifications from Facebook when you're tagged in a photo or receive a message. Note that you will have to explicitly grant developers the right to email you; they will never receive your email address without your... expressed consent.

You can now use the rules and routing mechanisms of your email inbox to control how you communicate with applications. This email option is one of a number of upcoming changes we announced in October to give you a faster and more connected experience when interacting with external applications on Facebook. You will soon start to see dialog boxes on application pages from external developers asking you if you would like to receive communication about their applications through your primary email address.



Just like you can receive newsletters from your favorite websites, granting developers permission to email you means you can receive more detailed and interesting information from them, including notifications of actions within their applications, receipts for purchases you make or newsletters like the one below.




At any time, if you decide that you no longer want to receive emails, you can unsubscribe by clicking the "unsubscribe" links in the emails (they'll most likely be located at the bottom). When you unsubscribe from communication with an application, that application's developer will no longer be permitted to contact you. If an application is not complying with your request to unsubscribe, you should report it to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for violating CAN-SPAM here.

Some applications may require an email address in order to use their service, in the same way that websites might when you sign up for them. In all cases, you will have the option to click the "change" link in the dialog box and share an anonymous version of your email address, called a proxied email address. You can always choose to stop using an application or use a different application instead if you don't want to receive emails from a particular application.

This new communication channel gives you more control over how you communicate with applications on Facebook Platform, and you can turn the channel on and off as you choose. Additionally, developers will be held to the highest Facebook and federal guidelines to help prevent spam, misleading information and malicious intent. We encourage you to use caution when communicating with these applications in the same way you do with sites across the Web. If you feel that an application is violating the guidelines in place, you can report the application to Facebook by clicking "Report Application" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Report" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.

Email from applications is one of many updates we'll be rolling out over the coming months. In addition to email, you will soon start to see new places to receive notifications from applications. For example, there will be a new feature called "Counters" that will appear next to bookmarked applications on your home page, as well new Applications and Games Dashboards where you'll also be able to get application updates. As we open a new means of communication with applications through these new channels, you will soon no longer receive updates from applications in the notifications channel on Facebook.

For the latest on these changes, become a fan of the Facebook Page.


Arun, an engineer on the Facebook Platform team, likes straightforward communication.

Here at Facebook we can't build all the features for the site that you want to use to connect with your friends. That's why in 2007, we opened up a platform for people outside of Facebook to create experiences directly on the site for you to interact with.

Since that time we have seen over 350,000 applications built on Facebook Platform, in areas ranging from sports and games to family and education. These applications were built to accompany our core Facebook applications like photos, events and groups. Our goal is to offer you a smooth... experience regardless of what applications you're interacting with on the site, which is why in the next couple of months we're going to roll out some improvements to Facebook Platform.

Here's what the changes will mean for you:

Easier Access to Applications
Soon, the applications menu will move from its current location on the bottom left-hand side of any page on Facebook to the navigation menu on the left-hand side of your home page. This way, you always can rely on seeing applications in the same place and easily interact with your favorites, in addition to discovering new ones. You'll have the option to bookmark applications on the home page so that your favorite applications are only a few clicks away. You'll also be able to see instant alerts from applications that you've bookmarked.

We will be introducing a new Games Dashboard and an Application Dashboard that can be accessed from the home page and will serve as destinations for you and your friends' application activity. These will make it easy to view the latest applications you've interacted with, as well as discover new applications based on what your friends are using. You can also receive updates directly from applications here. For instance, if you're playing a game of Scrabble with your mother, you can visit the Games Dashboard to find short messages about when it's your turn to play, as well as interesting activity from games your friends are playing.

Direct Contact with Applications
With these upcoming changes, you'll have the option to share your email address with any application you use. If you choose to do so, you may be emailed notifications directly from any application. This new choice will give you the ability to control which of your applications can contact you and enable you to leverage the tools of your email inbox, such as folders and routing rules, to manage these communications. Finally, if you no longer want to hear from an application, you'll be able to simply unsubscribe from their mailing list.

The email practices we're developing will be similar to signing up for or creating accounts on other web services, which is essentially what applications on Facebook are. When you do so, those services can email you directly to confirm a purchase, or provide newsletters or updates for which you signed up. Soon, you'll have a comparable experience with applications on Facebook. Keep in mind that applications will never be given your email address unless you explicitly grant them permission, and like other websites you can always choose to unsubscribe if the service is no longer of value.

A Better Facebook Experience with Less Spam
Allowing you to control which applications send you email notifications is just one step we are taking to reduce spam and ensure you don't receive unwanted notifications, requests or invitations through Facebook. We have heard from many of you that you want greater control over how and when you see stories in News Feed about applications. Our upcoming changes aim to improve that experience, by enabling you to only see application requests and invitations if your friends have explicitly chosen to send them to you rather than have the application take that action on your behalf.



If you are interested in staying updated on these upcoming improvements, become a fan of the Facebook Page. We'll be rolling these changes out over the couple of months.


Austin, a product manager, loves that playing games on Facebook is part of his job.

When I found out this past spring that I'd be a product marketing intern at Facebook for the summer, I was eager to start working on cool projects at one of the most exciting companies in Silicon Valley. I never imagined that in my first week I'd have the opportunity to have an even broader impact by being asked to work with dozens of technology start-ups through the fbFund REV program.

REV is an incubator program for 24 companies building new applications for you on the Facebook Platform, ranging from an application devoted to helping people ...run errands more efficiently to one that is devoted to finding work for people in third-world countries.

Over the past couple of months, I've worked with the companies as they experiment and iterate on the development of new applications and build their businesses— all from one of Facebook's former offices in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. Most importantly, the environment spurs learning and innovation.

For instance, one of the companies in the program, GeckoGo, is building an application that helps people plan their upcoming travel. While designing the application, GeckoGo's founders realized they needed to make it more engaging and turned to other entrepreneurs and advisers in the REV program for advice on how to simplify the design of their product and better solicit feedback from users. After a series of changes, people began spending significantly more time with their application. Another company, Frintro, is trying to find new ways to connect your single friends with one another by asking its users to make introductions from their different friend groups.

Together, we have a small community that provides powerful advice and learnings around product development and marketing, not to mention the daily struggles of starting a company.Along with meetings among the entrepreneurs and developers , the program also has experts from all over Silicon Valley visit REV to share their perspectives on building a company — on everything from funding the business and building user-friendly features to giving a good presentation. Many of the topics I'm studying as a business school student at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, like how to run an operationally lean company and how to market your company's products, were brought to life through the REV program.

I'm constantly surprised by all that I learn from the REV developers and can't wait for you to try all of the applications. For more information about the products that the teams are developing, check out the fbFund REV website and Facebook Page.


Shaykat, an intern for the fbFund REV program, doesn't want the summer to end.

With the more than 52,000 applications available on Facebook Platform, there are countless new ways to connect and share with friends and family. You can play social games, recruit people to causes and discover music and movie recommendations--to name only a few.

Sometimes, all that choice can be a little overwhelming. So today, we've launched a new Application Directory to help you discover the best and most reliable social applications. The directory includes applications for Facebook.com, as well as a growing number of Facebook Connect... enabled websites, mobile devices and desktop applications. You can access it from the "Browse More Applications" link on the Application menu in the bottom left-hand corner of your browser. Check out these and other tips in this video.



One of the new sections in the directory is "Applications You May Like," which includes the most popular apps on the site, ones your friends have used recently or those that are being suggested based on your current favorites. In some instances, you'll also see green check marks displayed alongside some of the listed applications. These signal that these applications are verified, having passed through a detailed review by Facebook.



When an application completes the verification process, they commit to extra steps for providing a trustworthy experience that meets your expectations.

You'll also find an area for applications "Featured by Facebook." This will include some Verified Applications that we periodically select, because they offer a unique way to interact or share with your friends. For instance, check out currently featured application, kaChing, which lets you and your friends create stock portfolios and compete to see who can outperform the market. Also take a look at CitizenSports and find out which sports teams are your friends' favorites.



Below the listing of "Applications You May Like," you'll now find a stream of your friends' most recent activity with applications. This lets you learn new things about your friends -- from the interests you share and the jobs openings they are promoting to their recent high scores in Tetris and the summer concert they're planning to attend.



You can receive updates directly from the applications you love by becoming a fan of their application profile. Once you're connected, these applications can communicate new features and share updates in your News Feed, so you can be the first to review a new movie or learn about new features being introduced.

Be sure to visit the new Application Directory to find your next favorite application.


Sandra, a program manager for App Verification, is waiting to play her turn in Lexulous..

We've launched the beta version of the Facebook Development Platform, a new set of services enabling developers to create outside applications that work with Facebook. This first edition will bring Facebook friend relationships, photos, events, and profile information to web and desktop applications. We think this is a great opportunity for users and developers to engage with Facebook in new and exciting ways.