Scientists are urging one another to get on Facebook to conduct research and communicate with the public about their work.
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Marketers make the most of Facebook when they remember it’s a two-way communication channel. Here are five ways to do engage fans in dialogues, culled from a white paper Buddy Media released on Saturday.
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Everyone loves a treat: Attach a rewards system that doles out points to users for referring friends to deals and Treatfeed may spell a potential win-win, for consumers and businesses alike.
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We’ve been hearing much chatter about Facebook’s commenting system amid the site’s continued improvements to both the plugin and native version of this popular feature. However, some have been critical, like  Jordan Kretchmer, founder and chief executive officer of Livefyre, Inc.,  which offers a third-party application that competes with Facebook’s commenting system, and sometimes complements it.
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If you’re like us, you’ve been getting this pesky message while browsing Facebook: “Switch to regular connection (http)? Sorry! We can’t display this content while you’re viewing Facebook over a secure connection (https). Would you like to temporarily switch to a regular connection (http) to use this app? You will have a secure connection upon your next login.”

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Yesterday afternoon Facebook sent out a reminder to developers to adjust their code as part of the shift to iFrames. Rather than using GET, developers must use POST.
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If you were using Google Adsense to generate revenue within your Facebook application, you no longer can according to the social network’s official policy. The new preferred advertiser list went into effect yesterday and Google isn’t on it.
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In what appears to be more of a technical modification then a structural change, Facebook has upgraded its requests API for developers building on the platform.
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While Facebook continues to expand its dominance in users, revenues, and valuations, Google is continuing to feel pressure from the social networking behemoth, and the latest drama to unfold centers around the ability of the search provider to advertise on Facebook’s pPlatform.
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Facebook is complementing its enhanced security for end users with a more secure platform for developers. The company unveiled the ability to assign different roles, or access levels, to people involved in creating an application.
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