Facebook has been fighting spam on all fronts. Whether it’s hackers and spammers trying to find loopholes in the site’s security, phish user data, or use other malicious techniques, or developers trying to cheat the platform, spam is a big problem. Just last week I posted about the Snowball Wars application which has since been banned. Today I stumbled across an application invite which asked me to install an application. The only problem was that thee of the links say ignore and one says confirm.
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Active Facebook developers are aware of the relatively long application settings page for new and existing applications. According to Brent Goldman, that page will soon be history. Goldman writes that Facebook has “redesigned the application settings editor to help you create and configure your applications much more easily. We’re launching it soon, and you’ll be able to switch back and forth between the old and new editors for a period of time, much like how users could switch between the old and new profiles earlier this year.”
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One of the biggest problems with Facebook’s platform for developers is the limits placed on them. Whether it’s a limit on the number of invites they can send, a limit on the types of emails they can send users, there are many restrictions. Today one of those restrictions have been loosened and developers can “now incorporate a number of HTML tags so” they can format messages as they wish.
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