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Major Facebook Announcement Thursday: Facebook Platform
- ced 19y agoSounds like they are trying to reimplement the web.
- omouse 19y agoA poor implementation of the web. Doesn't sound like it'll be very friendly towards other websites :(
- far33d 19y agoThe web... except with very precise demographic information. Voluntarily submitted, no less.
- altay 19y agoYeah, exactly. It's remarkable to me that people haven't done cooler things with the Facebook API thus far. So much interesting data there... so much potential for quantitative social network analysis. This is where MySpace has failed -- they sacrificed data integrity for rapid growth. Facebook, on the other hand, was careful not to fall into this trap... connections on there still mean something. (They go so far as to discourage you from "friending" folks that you don't really know.) It's a smart move on the part of Facebook to leverage this advantage, by cultivating a developer community around their data.