My Info: Highlighting Our User’s Facebook Pages I’m very interested in our user’s sharing with us some of the creative custom page tabs they’ve made with the My Info family of custom page tab apps on Facebook. Here’s one fine example. Be sure to share with us what you’ve done with your pages! Sweet Chalet I wanted to highlight the Facebook Page… Read More
My Info: Added About and Specials Tabs We’ve had a lot of requests to allow for more than two (2) custom tabs per Facebook page and so we’ve rolled out two (2) more! In addition to Custom Tab and Welcome Tab, we’ve added an About tab and a Specials tab. If you don’t like the names of these tabs you can always… Read More
Our Facebook Apps Now Support SSL Secure Browsing Facebook has been pushing users to switch to secure browsing (via SSL) and we have updated all of our Facebook applications to support it. This means a seamless browsing experience between our apps and the rest of Facebook.… Read More
My Info: New Custom Tab Names Coming Soon If you have been checking out the My Info app page on Facebook, you’ve probably noticed that I have been hinting that new custom tab names are coming soon. I have done most of the work on this already and am starting to want a few heavy users to try them out and provide feedback… Read More
My Info: Preview New 520px Profile Tab Layout In order to help you prepare for Facebook’s new narrower custom profile tabs starting August 23rd, 2010, I have updated My Info to now let you preview custom tabs in either the new narrow 520px layout or the old wider 760px format. This should help you get your custom tab set up nicely for the… Read More
Facebook Roadmap: Removing All Profile Boxes in Early January Back in October, Facebook published a “roadmap” of changes that would be taking place then through the beginning of 2010. We have posted articles on this here, but wanted to dig deeper into an area that is going to have a significant impact on users and developers and a huge impact on our My Info… Read More
My Info: How to Show off your Facebook Page on your Personal Profile Facebook recently rolled out a wizard for creating a profile badge to show off your Facebook page(s). Its an image-based badge that doesn’t require javascript or iframes, so it works just fine in Facebook Profile boxes…… Read More
My Info: New Feature! Add Custom Fields to Your Facebook Info Section We’re now beta testing a new feature to let you place custom images, links, and text directly onto the Facebook Info Section on your profile. This lets you add just about anything you want under the standard Facebook personal information on your profile. The screenshot above is an example of what I’ve added to my… Read More
My Info: Enhancement: Better Profile Box Preview We’ve updated My Info to provide you with a much better preview feature. You can now select whether you want to preview your profile box in Narrow or Wide format. This will let you see more accurately how your profile box will look when its on the wall/narrow or wide side of the boxes tab.… Read More
My Info: New Feature: Link to Edit Page Some users have found it difficult to add My Info to their business page because Facebook doesn’t let us automate adding a box to a page’s profile like it does for your personal profile. To make things a little easier, we’ve now added instructions at the top of the main My Info page whenever you… Read More