Recap of Facebook’s Gaming Announcement
Earlier this week, Facebook held a special event focused on updates being made to games / apps within Facebook. At the event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a pretty impressive statistic: more than 200 million people play games on Facebook each month. However, those users that don’t play games on Facebook tend to have a negative reaction to the notifications that show up in their news feeds. Facebook has recognized this and they want to have as few people as possible have a negative experience while using the social network. The biggest change is that Facebook is altering how the news...
Read MoreFacebook Page Changes: Removing Boxes & Adjusting Tab Width
Beginning on August 23rd, Facebook will be removing application boxes and reducing the width of application tabs. These changes were announced back in October of last year, and after months of delays, it looks like Facebook is ready to roll out these new changes. According to Facebook’s Developer Blog, below are the details of the changes: Boxes. We will notify users via messaging in profile boxes and in the Help Center that the “Boxes” tab, boxes on profiles and Pages, and application info sections will be going away. Application Tabs. Next week, we will give Page admins...
Read MoreFacebook tabs about to get smaller for pages
If you’re developing custom tabs for Facebook Pages, you’ll want to be sure to design them at a width of 520 pixels, as the change from 760 pixels to 520 pixels is about to go into effect. According to Inside Facebook, the change is expected to happen during the second week in August, or so. Back in October, Facebook made the announcement on their Platform Roadmap that the dimensions of custom tabs would be changing from 760 to 520 in early 2010. However, that date has been pushed back several times, probably due to the fact that Facebook is still trying to get the word out about...
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