Facebook to help some programmers, punish others

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer, Technology / Internet

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, gestures while delivering the keynote address during the annual Facebook f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Facebook announced that 24 Web sites and applications have joined its efforts to make the Web more open and connected through Facebook Connect. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

(AP) -- Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.

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