Alerts that online accounts may have been accessed without authorization are common via email and also as warning popup right after you log on, but via Facebook notifications? That’s a new one.

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Ticker haters, rejoice: Facebook appears to be testing a new layout for its homepage, where notifications appear in a column running down the left-hand side. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo debuted an iPad app called IntoNow, which uses Facebook Connect to help create a social television-viewing experience.

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Facebook claims it has fixed a glitch that had unleashed email notifications for some users, sending them messages about up to 73 different types things they may have opted out of receiving.
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Want to read your friends’ status updates even when you can’t have the social network site open in your browser, like when you’re at the office? A new application called Facebook Desktop does exactly that.
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In what could be a huge win for application developers, Facebook has begun a short-term test to see how users react to notifications of application requests. It’s a small step that could have a huge impact on the platform.
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In the past, Facebook’s notifications have been a continuous stream of updates about who has commented on your posts, who has tagged you in an image, or one of many other notifications. This afternoon the company rolled out a change which consolidated many of the notifications. We haven’t seen all the changes yet, however multiple people have reached out in the past 15 minutes.
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Facebook’s decision to kill notifications has had lasting effects on developers, effectively killing most virality for the application Platform (although there are still plenty of applications growing through feed optimization). The other major change that developers have been preparing for is the shift of requests from the homepage to the inbox. Now Facebook has updated the Developer Roadmap, stating that the requests “will be transitioned to a new notification area”.
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Just over 24 hours after Facebook turned off application notifications, developers are reporting a dramatic decrease in traffic. Speaking to a number of developers, we’ve heard traffic has decreased in the range of 10 to 50 percent, depending on the application, most hovering between an 18 to 27 percent decrease. While our poll sample was small, Facebook developers are now entering the “post-notifications era”. So what does this mean?
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Monday is the day that application notifications will finally be removed from the Facebook platform. While some developers are on edge, as they are concerned about the negative impact that the loss of notifications will have, Facebook is providing developers with advice on how to adjust. The primary piece of advice is to use the homepage counters, dashboard news stories, and request access to users’ email addresses.
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