At Facebook's f8 developer conference, the company announced some initiatives to improve the quality of applications on its site, but it may have disappointed developers by making no significant new additions to the platform.
Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Wednesday's event by acknowledging that Facebook has made mistakes in the year since it threw its site wide-open to third-party developers.
"We haven't done enough to reward the good applications or punish the applications that have just been abusive," he told a crowded hall of developers in San Francisco's South of Market district. "We're going to have to find a way to ensure the applications that provide the most long-term value are the ones that are succeeding."
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Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Wednesday's event by acknowledging that Facebook has made mistakes in the year since it threw its site wide-open to third-party developers.
"We haven't done enough to reward the good applications or punish the applications that have just been abusive," he told a crowded hall of developers in San Francisco's South of Market district. "We're going to have to find a way to ensure the applications that provide the most long-term value are the ones that are succeeding."
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148843/facebook_takes_steps_to_clean_house.html