As December and the full year come to an end, year-end wrap-up season arrives in full force. The Facebook Developer Blog posted its overview of changes to the social network in 2011.

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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 »

Facebook has started soliciting opinions from page administrators.

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Facebook has said that it wants to phase out places in favor of location tagging, and one great way to start is to eliminate duplicates. The social network started adding suggestions on possible duplicate pages, preceded by the question, “Did you mean?”

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The latest attempt at an app that alerts Facebook users when they have been unfriended is Out & In, from Italy’s Wasabit.

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The keyword used to be the exclusive province of Google, and one of the things that may ensure Google doesn’t become completely overshadowed by Facebook. But then Twitter’s trending topics began to eat into that monopoly.

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Some 350 million people access Facebook via mobile devices every month, and the social network is now giving app developers the tools to tap that exploding market with its launch of Facebook Platform for mobile.

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Facebook wants alternatives to like, but maybe the Open Graph needs adverbs in addition to verbs — in other words, ways to qualify the relationship between two objects.

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Facebook’s changes to the site in the countdown to the f8 conference includes one that isn’t ruffling any feathers yet: A new tab on pages lets people see how their friends interact with the page.

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Leading social enterprise provider Buddy Media added a new tool to its social marketing suite today: ConversionBuddy.

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