Facebook Feels the Pinch and Decides to Make More Money — Two bits of interesting news on the Facebook front this evening. Nick O’Neill at All Facebook noticed that the social network has created additional ad inventory for sale on their sidebar, and we received details on the Application Verification Program that was announced earlier this week.  Both signal a move by Facebook to get serious about utilizing as much of their highly used social network to bring the company closer to profitability. Platform Reloaded: What Does That Mean? Facebook gave us some information on what they meant when they issued their statement of guiding principles for developers to get their... [Tags: application platform, apps, central themes, developers, facebook]