Facebook opens up

by billso on Monday, 28 May 2007

Accord­ing to Wired, Face­book now allows third-party devel­op­ers to write small appli­ca­tions that users may embed in their pro­files. This is a nec­es­sary addi­tion to Facebook’s busi­ness model, espe­cially if the com­pany hopes to com­pete with other social net­work­ing sites.

Face­book does have a few rules. My favorite: audio and video play­ers can­not auto­mat­i­cally start a clip when a user pro­file loads. If there’s any­thing I hate about MySpace, it’s media play­ers that auto­mat­i­cally cue up a clip when a page loads. I find this a tremen­dous waste of net­work bandwidth.

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