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Facebook: A dream come true for developers?
The latest hot player in IT, Facebook, made headlines (BBC, 29/10) once again as a group devoted to the fake US presidency candidacy of comedian Stephen Colbert has reached 1 million users in 8 days.
While it can be argued that this is a sign of our times, as our life becomes more digitalized every day, one can only agree that the potential as well as the lessons learned from them 50 million users site are significant.
The potential remains to be seen, as Facebook now needs to turn those millions of users into money, but the lessons are here. Facebook is an excellent case study in information presentation and customization, providing an excellent interface over the web, allowing access to developers while safeguarding users' privacy and more.
So join the Facebook craze and get some ideas for your applications!
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Google responds to Facebook!
Google's OpenSocial: What it means by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. (see Techmeme). Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn, hi5, XING, Friendster, Plaxo and [...]
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