Facebook apps

• Facebook last September announced a revamped profile layout, called the Timeline. The social network also debuted a handful of new social apps designed specifically for the robust user interface.
(Huffington Post)
• Major technology brands behind more than 30 of the top Apple iPhone applications, including Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, have received letters from U.S. lawmakers requesting information on how the apps collect consumer data.
(searchenginewatch.com)
• This post is part of our ReadWriteMobile channel, which is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. This channel is sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent.
(ReadWriteWeb)
• have been the fact that applications used by your Facebook friends can gain access to your data on Facebook, even if you do not use the apps yourself. Thats true, but its been true since at least 2007 and well-documented elsewhere on the site.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Facebook has confirmed with me that its new location APIs let any third-party app import and display the checkins as well as location-tagged posts published to Facebook by other apps.
(TechCrunch)
• BOULDER, CO — Facebooks adoption of Timeline for brand Pages shows that letting fans become a part of a brands story is far more valuable than just pushing a message.
(msnbc.com)
• Get ready for another wave of social location-based mobile apps.
(TechCrunch)
• The attacks manifest as suggestions to download Facebook apps. Those apps are, alas, not real. Instead they are malware and, in one case, a malware-laden Chrome extension hosted in Googles very own Chrome Web Store.
(The Register)
• Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Googles OpenSocial.
(CNET News)