Facebook Getting Closer to Sharing More Concrete Details Around App Verification Program
It’s been 5 months to the day since Facebook formally launched its application verification program, intended to increase user trust in applications and reward verified developers with increased visibility within the Facebook Platform.
While Facebook hasn’t made public statements about when the initial verified applications will be announced, several developers have been receiving emails from Facebook in recent days letting them know that more concrete information is coming soon.
As developer David Stillwell posted in the Developers Forum, Facebook said to him in an email late last week:
We want to thank you for your patience as we get closer to launching The Verification Program. Regarding timeline, we expect to announce the first set of verified applications within the next couple of weeks. This announcement will be coupled with the benefits, which include badging and special highlighting in the Application Directory, and bucket boosts for requests and notification allocations.
We apologize for the delay. We will be back in touch with more details before we launch the program.
The Facebook Platform Team also responded earlier in the thread to developers complaining that the Verification program has taken too long to roll out:
We apologize for the delays, but we are working to really make this a release that Verification members and Platform users will appreciate and find useful. We appreciate your concerns and questions, and hopefully once everything is launched, you’ll feel it’s been worth it. Platform went through some changes through the course of getting this program out, so a lot of questions arose that weren’t easy to answer and that we’ve wanted to take the time to get right.
Though Facebook has not given exact specifics on benefits verified applications will receive, Facebook Platform Program Manager Sandra Liu Huang said when the program launched that the benefits would include higher viral channel allocation limits for notifications, requests, and emails (though Huang says “the application reputation system is still in effect”) and a “seal of approval” indicating that the application is verified.
We’ll let you know when Facebook makes any official announcements.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:52 am
They should add a Facebook Connect verified/validation program, let alone an Facebook Public Profile ‘verified’/'confidence validation’ program!
what also be good is if Facebook separated the facebook connect ‘apps’/ services from the throw onto the editapps.php page in a way similar to MySpaceID settings (which by opinion has a better settings layout structure – at least you can find and ‘unlink’ easy) even if they decide to use anchors to ‘sort out’ the current editapps.php.
reqs.php and editapps.php both should really have some work done to improve loading or ease of use.
reqs.php = profilereqs.php, appreqs.php
editapps = (all the current ways of filtering as well as by verification method and sort by ‘Facebook Connect Services’
verification for public profiles with all the spammers and fakes on there really (bad public profile tactics: abuser example: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Potato-Smiley-faces/60431779482?ref=nf – referal links and spam users via status updates on top of the profile administrator is certainly not trustworthy sort.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:17 am
With the above 2 verification/ validation ideas i not suggesting Facebook charge like they do for the process like they do for applications but for Facebook it be a nice earner of Facebook funding, it however likely be hated by those with honest intentions but not everyone do have those intentions when usually it minority takes trust away for the majority law binding folk.
Verification of Public Profiles should extend to harsher punishment with offences whichstatus updates maybe shouldn’t be available to ever user on default. Also the use of email validation to stop free web services like Hotmail, AOL, Gmail and Yahoo free email domains should be restricted when creating a page in a way similar to how they validated student validity but restrict common free service domains)
With Facebook Connect Applications, they should at a minimum distinguish visually what is a developer app and what is a Facebook Connect one.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:00 am
awesome stuff.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:30 am
awesome stuff.