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June 16, 2007
Facebook platform
Facebook platform: Arresting quote in CNET yesterday: "Dave Morin, Facebook's director of platform, told the Developer Meetup audience via videoconference that more than 40,000 developers have requested to be part of the project, around 1,500 applications have been produced so far, and some of the most popular went from zero to 850,000 users in three days. 'This is unprecedented in the history of the Internet,' Morin said to the developers." Lots of people are using Flash and Ajax to expose different parts of the Facebook database. (I'm using "platform" in the sense of "database platform", where you can do something with a set of services, not in the sense of the "technology platform" that Adobe specializes in, where you can do things without being locked into a specific data service.) I think Facebook is in a very interesting position -- where Google innovated ten years ago in finding the relationships between webpages and other artifacts, Facebook is innovating in finding the relationships between people themselves, which feels like a more vital and dynamic area. (I use Twitter mainly to aggregate the status reports of people I work with at Adobe; on Facebook my friends list is more open, with the main criteria being whether I can clearly remember physically meeting someone.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at June 16, 2007 09:32 AM
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John,
This is indeed big news. The amount of applications that are being developed for the facebook platform is amazing.
More and more useful applications will emerge and the ecosystem of facebook allows those applications to grow an audience.
We are publishing a ratings and review blog with videos that looks closely atthese applications at http://www.facereviews.com
Rodney Rumford
Posted by: Rodney Rumford at June 16, 2007 05:55 PM