Facebook De-friends Its App Verification Program

From PC World: Facebook has abruptly decided to pull the plug on its Application Verification program, which let external developers pay to have their applications certified as exceeding certain requirements.

The company made the announcement on Wednesday evening, as it unveiled a roadmap of upcoming changes to its application development platform.

"We're retiring the formerly optional Application Verification brand, submission process, fees and badge; the program's higher standards will be required and applications will be subject to review at any time," wrote Facebook official Ethan Beard in a blog post.

Announced in November of last year, the program drew boos early on from critics who felt it would unfairly benefit developers able to afford the review fee, while affecting programmers without deep pockets.

Critics also said that the program put the financial burden on developers for a review process that Facebook should be doing as a matter of course for all external applications on its site.

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