The Facebook Journal

In a recent blog post Facebook encouraged users to be trustworthy and to create great user experiences.

The deadline for enforcement of the new Facebook Developer Principles and Policies has passed and now all the application developers that violate those rules will be punished. The actions taken against the apps will range from simple warnings, suspension of certain functionality to the outright disablement of the app according to the “severity” of the violation, the developer’s history of compliance and the impact of the violation on the users of the application.

These new changes to the Developer Principles and Policies will slow down the growth of new applications significantly. The auto pop-up permission requests, bookmark reminders will be considered as violations. The stream stories can no longer be used as methods for users to invite friends to the applications and soon Facebook will disable all the viral channels of communication (notifications, requests) and leave developers with only the dashboard counters and the Inbox.

Added to this, as outlined in the Facebook Developer Roadmap, Developers will be able to obtain the users’ primary email addresses and the formatting of the canvas will change to better outline the brand of the application. To me this looks like Facebook is slowly “pushing away” the applications from Facebook.com to better highlight that they are the creations of third party developers, not Facebook itself.

Facebook just banned several ad networks from their Platform. Nick Gianos, a member of the Facebook Platform team explained the move by saying that those providers violated Facebook Policies and Principles. According to Nick Gianos, applications that continue to use the services provided by the above mentioned providers will risk enforcement action.

Here is the complete list of banned ad networks:

Gambit
Social Hour
SocialReach
Tatto Media

Something tells me this list will continue to grow. Just yesterday Facebook announced that they will give time to all the developers to comply their applications with the Platform’s new Policies, but why aren’t they doing the same for ad networks?