Facebook launches Facebook Platform - now it's the exact opposite of MySpace
Facebook launches the Facebook Platform - an open API that is designed to “sort out” MySpace.
Third-party applications using the new API have announced developments from companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Slide, RockYou, Box.net, Red Bull, Washington Post, Project Agape, Prosper, Snapvine, iLike, PicksPal, Digg, Plum and others - A total of 70 companies developing applications are currently represented.
Facebook gives unprecedented access to developers. The Facebook Platform allows, for example, third-party programmers to update Facebook Photos, the most used photo application on the web. Then users will be able to voluntarily remove the standard Facebook Photos and install the version created by a third-party developer.
Applications can display their own ads. Advertisements can be displayed where there is no Microsoft advertisement currently displayed.
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On Facebook there will be special areas for applications where users can add and view third-party applications. But there is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it will be recorded in his profile news stream. By clicking on this item, you will add this application to yourself.
Users will also be able to add these applications to their site.
As a result, we have two things in which both parties are interested. First, developers get access to 20 million Facebook users, and, second, Facebook will become a rich third-party applications platform.
Facebook's strategy is the exact opposite of MySpace. While MySpace strongly opposes third-party widgets, and alternatively either disconnects or acquires them, Facebook, on the contrary, opens up the main functions for all third-party developers.
Third-party applications using the new API have announced developments from companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Slide, RockYou, Box.net, Red Bull, Washington Post, Project Agape, Prosper, Snapvine, iLike, PicksPal, Digg, Plum and others - A total of 70 companies developing applications are currently represented.
Facebook gives unprecedented access to developers. The Facebook Platform allows, for example, third-party programmers to update Facebook Photos, the most used photo application on the web. Then users will be able to voluntarily remove the standard Facebook Photos and install the version created by a third-party developer.
Applications can display their own ads. Advertisements can be displayed where there is no Microsoft advertisement currently displayed.
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On Facebook there will be special areas for applications where users can add and view third-party applications. But there is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it will be recorded in his profile news stream. By clicking on this item, you will add this application to yourself.
Users will also be able to add these applications to their site.
As a result, we have two things in which both parties are interested. First, developers get access to 20 million Facebook users, and, second, Facebook will become a rich third-party applications platform.
Facebook's strategy is the exact opposite of MySpace. While MySpace strongly opposes third-party widgets, and alternatively either disconnects or acquires them, Facebook, on the contrary, opens up the main functions for all third-party developers.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/9038/
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