Facebook

We wanted to take a moment and thank you for all of your great work and amazing applications that have helped make Facebook Platform the largest and fastest-growing social platform over the past year and a half. As we end 2008 there are over 660,000 of you worldwide building applications that give users more powerful ways to share and connect, and collectively your applications have reached nearly 140 million people.

Just recently, we've been excited to bring you Facebook Connect - allowing you to integrate the tools and features of Facebook Platform on your Websites, devices and desktop applications. In the next several months, we're looking forward to introducing additional improvements to help users more easily find your applications as well as launching the first sets of Verified Applications to users. If you haven't applied for verification yet, apply here:
http://developers.facebook.com/verification.php

Over the next year, we look forward to continued developments to improve Facebook Platform and help you reach and engage more users, and grow and sustain your business. We would love your feedback and input on what you think is most important - please take a few minutes and answer our survey here:

https://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1121648

From all of us at Facebook, we wish you and your families "Happy Holidays," and we look forward to making the web even more social with you in 2009!

Hey Developers!

Round 1 for the fbFund Developer Competition has begun! We are looking to fund talented developers and entrepreneurs with up to $250,000 non-recourse grants to build great applications on Facebook Platform.

For more information, please go to http://developers.facebook.com/fbFund.php

Join us for updates at the fbFund page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/fbFund/40962810690

Please also watch our fun video that kicks off the competition
http://www.vimeo.com/1450772

Submissions are due 8/29.

Hey Developers,

Just in case you hadn't yet heard ... f8 '08 will be taking place Wednesday, July 23rd at the Design Center at the San Francisco Concourse.

Space is limited so please sign-up ASAP as registration will close once we reach capacity. Register before Monday, July 7th, for the early-bird fee of $150; after July 7th the fee will be $250. A limited amount of student tickets are available for a $50 fee.

For more details including the session list: http://www.facebook.com/f8

To register for the event: http://www.facebook.com/developers/f8_register.php

If you are interested in exhibiting at this year's conference, please email f8exhibit@facebook.com for more information. Qualified press can request a pass at f8press@facebook.com. We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, The f8 '08 Team