A little over a year ago Facebook empowered web developers to create applications that could run on the Facebook platform. This simple decision has propelled Facebook to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Now, Facebook is expanding that vision and hopes to allow web developers to use their platform to develop applications that can be used throughout the Internet and almost anywhere else developers want to use them. If Facebook is successful in this strategy, I believe Facebook will create and own an essential piece of the next generation of the Internet. This could be one of the biggest announcements in the history of the Internet. For more information, see this article.
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Innovation, Internet Marketing, Online Communities, Open Source, Social Networking, e-Business
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