Chicago-based Annmarie Swatos is suing a former employer who she had an affair. The reason? Defamation. According to Swatos, Richard Gloor spread rumors about her being “post-partum and delusional” as well as “crazy”. Due to the rumors, numerous Facebook friends unfriended her and as a result of losing those friends Swatos believes she should be awarded $50,000 on the count of “tortuous interference with business relations”.
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At the Facebook Developer Garage last week, Facebook announced that they would be shutting down the Verified Apps program, instead holding all developers to the same standards. It’s a renewed focus on ensuring that Facebook Platform applications provide a positive user experience. This morning Facebook reached out to those developers that had been part of the program with the following email:
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While Facebook’s revenue is reportedly going to surpass $500 million this year, it’s still a fraction of the revenue from large, publicly traded tech giants. For example Google generated over $21.7 billion last year, a large portion of which came from their self-serve advertising platform. Facebook has a long way to go before they hit $21.7 billion but if a new report published by eMarketer is correct, Facebook should have a good shot at getting there.
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Facebook is no stranger to phishing scams and today another one is making its way around Facebook. The scam gets users to fill in their email address and password and then posts 25 wall messages on the walls of the user’s friends. What makes this version of the scam unique is that if the user deletes the wall posts, this system is apparently smart enough to post additional wall posts.
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While there was most definitely an initial hit to applications that thrived from the open Facebook feed, it appears that developers are already adapting and many have avoided a dramatic drop in traffic. It’s not surprising as last week I wrote that there would be blood but that developers would overcome the changes. It appears that many of those developers are already coping with the first in a series of changes.
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Last night Facebook announced that a new version of Adobe’s ActionScript library for the Facebook Platform was released. For those developers building robust flash applications, this new library will most definitely be a welcomed upgrade. According to Justin Bishop, the new library provides “support for translations and the latest Facebook Platform APIs, like fql.multiQuery, the Comments API, and Inbox API.”
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Last week we wrote that Johns Hopkins would welcome the crew of “The Social Network” this week as they’d be filming in front of some of the dorms. Today photos of the shooting are rolling in from Twitpic including shots of Eamon Brooks and Jesse Eisenberg, two of the film’s main characters. While we try to avoid being a gossip rag over here at AllFacebook, we couldn’t resist posting some of the photos. You can view them below!
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Want to find out which of your friends are busy wasting their day away on Facebook? Unfortunately you’ll have to hold off on that as Facebook chat currently says that it’s “down for maintenance”. The issues, which began appearing earlier in the day, appeared to be related to the service becoming unreliable. Users would visit a page only to notice that the chat service was no longer functioning properly.
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There’s a running “joke” among industry insiders about one of the ad network companies, who’s founders need bodyguards. The reason is that they’ve received death threats and are harassed as a result of the deceptive ads being run on their network. It’s not really that funny though because it’s true. It’s the part of the seedy side of the social platform business and while not all developers are deciding to participate, it’s big money which brings in over $1 million a day for some of the ad networks.
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The past week was a big one for Facebook developers who learned about the upcoming platform changes over the next few months. Facebook users also started getting used to the new homepage design which launched a little over a week ago. For this week, the primary stories were all related to new product announcements from Facebook.
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