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Facebook doesn't have to join up. It'll take a half day's work to make a wrapper you can throw on your OpenSocial app to make it work in Facebook. If that. It'
by aston 19y ago
Facebook doesn't have to join up. It'll take a half day's work to make a wrapper you can throw on your OpenSocial app to make it work in Facebook. If that.
It's in Facebook's interest to keep people making apps that have some attachment to Facebook proper, though. If people aren't using FBML and FQL, there's no platform lockin. I assume Facebook's going to beef up their custom offerings so that people are at least forced to make a special version of their product just for Facebook.
- cstejerean 19y agoI'm not sure if that's good for Facebook. Sure. some developers out of trying to get the best market share might develop a version for Facebook and one for OpenSocial, but some might stick with just OpenSocial and Facebook will loose. The benefits of third party apps on Facebook does not come from locking in developers. It comes from bringing features to Facebook so that users don't have a reason to switch.