1. WHAT’S NEW ON THE FACEBOOK
PLATFORM, FEBRUARY 2012
Iskandar Najmuddin
16th February 2012
Facebook Developer Garage London
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3. Improved Auth Dialog
Will be turned on for ALL apps on March 1st (previously Feb. 15th)
A) The Default Dialog
• New Headline & Description
• Default privacy option
• Timeline info area
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4. Improved Auth Dialog
B) The Extended Permissions Dialog
• A Second, Separate Dialog
• Granular Permissions
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5. Offline Access Deprecation
Before:
Ask for the offline_access extended permission and
• make API calls using the access_token for ages
Now:
• Extend a valid access_token for 60 days
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID
&client_secret=APP_SECRET&grant_type=fb_exchange_token&
fb_exchange_token=EXISTING_ACCESS_TOKEN
Notes
• Opt-in App Migration available now
• Migration applied to all apps on May 1st
• You can’t automatically re-extend tokens
• An auth code is required for server-side extension
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6. Create FB Questions via Graph API
You can post on behalf of:
A User
• Needs publish_stream permission and a User access_token
A Page
• Needs manage_pages permission and a Page access_token
curl -F 'access_token=PAGE_TOKEN’
-F 'question=What is your favorite color?'
-F ‘allow_new_options=true’
-F ‘options=[‚Blue‛,‛Red‛,‛Green‛,‛Walrus‛]
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/questions
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7. Read Subscribers & Subscriptions
Get Users that have subscribed to an Object:
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/subscribers?access_token=...
Get Objects a User has Subscribed to:
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/subscribedto?access_token=...
Related Permissions:
• user_subscriptions
• friends_subscriptions
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8. Post to Past in Timeline
Just set start_time for posts in the past 
POST /me/fdgl_demo:chow_down_on?pizza_slice=http://fdgl-
demo.com/objects/mushroom-pizza-slice&start_time=1999-12-31T23:59:59+0000
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9. Other Updates
Pay Dialog
• New action parameter
• Buy $1, get $4 free!
Ads API
Use Action Specs to create Featured Stories
• Supports Open Graph activity
• More flexible than query templates
• Action Specs also used for Ad Targeting
Page Insights: Lots removed on Feb. 15th
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/
Test Users
Can now manually set password – crucial for mobile testing
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• i.najmuddin@syncapse.com
• twitter.com/iskandar
• +44(0)207.096.0146
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