Fresh on the heels of rolling out the public beta for itsnewly designed homepage and user profiles, Facebook has issued a new set of policies for application developers, many of which are related specifically to the site changes.

The changes are clearly aimed at further reducing spam and unwanted application invites and notifications, Facebook is also making clear that the new profile features are not fresh real estate for developers to place ads. According to theFacebook Developer Blog,“advertising cannot appear on the newly launched features that deeply integrate into profiles (tabs, Publisher, and application info sections). Developers can continue to run advertising on canvas pages and monetize their applications in other ways.”

Facebook sounds like it isn't messing around with enforcing the new rules either. They are giving developers until August 11th to comply with the guidelines, at which point enforcement will begin, which we assume means the suspension of applications that don't meet Facebook's standards at that point.

The updated guidelines are available on thePlatform Policy wiki.

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