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"If your Facebook application has vanished off the face of the earth (or at least from users' news feeds) since the redesign, the social network has just launched a new program to help you get your swagger back.  The Application Verification Program, announced earlier this year at the Facebook developer conference, is now live, allowing developers to submit their applications for review.\nApplications meeting Facebook\u2019s standards will be marked with a verification badge, and more importantly, \u201Cusers will see more information from verified applications as we increase their allocations for communication channels such as requests and notifications, and increase visibility of their stories in News Feed.\u201D  Those are of course the same viral channels that helped many applications grow rapidly when the platform first launched, but also caused users to feel the platform was spammy as opportunistic developers bombarded them with requests.  \nSo what does it take to get your application verified?  Facebook has published 10 \u201CGuiding Principles,\u201D with the central themes being that apps should be \u201CMeaningful,\u201D \u201CTrustworthy,\u201D and \u201CWell-Designed.\u201D  It also takes $375 \u2013 the application fee that Facebook is charging to developers seeking to get their apps verified.  Facebook will begin granting apps the benefits of Verified status early next year.\nEssentially, coupled with the current fbFund finalists, Facebook is resurrecting the platform, which has been largely hidden to passive users (folks who ignore the apps completely) since the social network rolled out its redesign.  It\u2019s all been very methodical \u2013 first, bury the applications under a special tab on user profiles, then, dole out funding to the best app developers, and finally, offer everyone else a way to get their apps back in the game.  Ultimately, it might get Facebook where they want to be \u2013 a platform offering several hundred high quality apps, as opposed to tens of thousands of useless ones."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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