Whoa! STOP THE PRESSES! Facebook opens up!
Baruch Hashem to Mark Zuckerberg. God Bless Facebook.
Facebook is now offering open APIs for people, friends, hptos and events! Can life get any better than that! Think of all the coolio things that can get done now! Legally - without any mishigas.
A full 6-12 months ahead of schedule Facebook has - in a single blow - broken open this whole game. Now the race begins to build out services and applications (even content) around these APIs.
Anyone wish to guess on how long it’ll take MySpace and Bebo to respond?
Now I hate to say I told you so - but…..
……. I TOLD YOU SO!
PeopleAggregator is gonna be all over thgis like bees to honey. Thanks Mark.
I tried to register - but it didn’t work.
Can’t wait to get started!
This all just ‘makes sense’.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
[…] One-upping the much-buzzed about “MySpace ecosystem,” college-based social network Facebook has opened up its API to outside developers. (Thanks Marc!) A discussion board was buzzing with ideas for Facebook widgets and mashups, including address book and music service integration, chatrooms, and textbook sales. The only live application so far is a social money-tracking service called FaceBank, which is similar to BillMonk. (You may not be able to access all this if you are not registered with Facebook…I had to authenticate more than once.) […]
August 15th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Facebook Developers Launches: Facebook Opening Up?
Facebook just launched Facebook Developers, a service that opens up its APIs to the outside world. This is great news, and will no doubt lead to hundreds of Facebook mashups and widgets. You can can create applications based around profiles, photo…
August 15th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
[…] Marc Canter: “Facebook is now offering open APIs.” […]
August 15th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
BTW, how can I try out the Facebook APIs?
I thought you had to be a student to use it?
August 15th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
You can register as a corporation employee, too… but that only works for real corporations, not ones you made up.
August 15th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Yeah, it looks like you need to have a Facebook login to get a developer key.
Aha, excellent, my university is in the system, and I still have an e-mail address there. Perhaps I can get in…
August 15th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
The word is “whoa.” Just sayin’.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
use your alumni.brown.edu email address to sign up. that’s how i got an account.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Facebook evolves social networking
Facebook is really starting to leverage the fact that they nailed the college market and are now showing some innovation and flexibility in the way they operate. According to Pete Cashmore on Mashable, JP Morgan Chase has just announced a partnership …
August 16th, 2006 at 1:25 am
[…] Marc Canter is virtually climbing up the walls over at Marc’s Voice: Facebook is now offering open APIs for people, friends, hptos and events! Can life get any better than that! Think of all teh cooliop things that can get done now! Legally - without any mishigas. […]
August 16th, 2006 at 2:03 am
[…] Heh, I love how Marc Canter get’s so excited “I told you so” he says. It appears that they’ve also launched a new product called Facebank, which adds in currency to this model –there could be money to be made here. This will create some unique business models. […]
August 16th, 2006 at 2:43 am
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August 16th, 2006 at 3:24 am
[…] Now that one of the major social networking systems is opening up, let’s answer some of the nay sayers who have been asking me (for years) “why should we open up?” […]
August 16th, 2006 at 5:52 am
[…] Cantner on FaceBook APIs. […]
August 16th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
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August 17th, 2006 at 4:46 am
Facebook is Now Open
To developers, that is. Marc’s Voice reports that the second most closed (after a small world) of all SNS’s now has a full API open to developers. There are, in typical Facebook style, plenty of requirements for anyone developing on
August 21st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
[…] Marty Wells of Tangler (and a Citizen Agency client) has some great thoughts on Facebook’s usurping of MySpace’s opportunity to set the standard API of the social web. Basically, that Facebook came out with their API first means that they dictate the standard calls and features that everyone else will now have to offer parity with. […]
October 27th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Money often unmakes the men who make it. Simon.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:27 am
[…] Mensen zullen in toenemende mate deel gaan uitmaken van meerdere online netwerken die vaak gekoppeld zullen zijn aan andere zaken. De voetbalclub, school, werk, hobby, etc. Anders gezegd, er zal niet 1 netwerk zijn dat in alles gaat voorzien. Nu kun je op Facebook en Hyves natuurlijk een apart netwerk of een aparte Hyve opstarten voor je voetbalclub, school, werk en hobby, maar waarschijnlijker is het dat de verschillende netwerken onderwater gekoppeld zullen zijn zodat het erg makkelijk is om lid te worden van meerdere netwerken zonder dat je overal nieuwe profielen, gebruikersnamen, wachtwoorden en vriendenlijsten moet aanmaken. Niet een one-size-fits-all dus, maar een visie die veel meer in lijn ligt met wat Marc Canter beoogd te bereiken met z’n PeopleAggregator. De grote social networks als MySpace en Hyves zullen niet verdwijnen (waar Metrick in bovenstaande quote bang voor is), maar krijgen daarin vanwege hun schaal een meer faciliterende rol omdat het de eerste netwerken zijn waar mensen lid van werden. En als ze die rol niet op zich (willen) nemen dan wacht ze een toekomst vergelijkbaar aan die van AOL toen ze zich krampachtig vasthielden aan hun ‘walled-garden’ aanpak in een ander tijdperk. Facebook heeft al een behoorlijke stap in de goede richting gezet, Yahoo! ook, en ook bijvoorbeeld het werk rondom OpenID is in dat kader interessant. De consequentie is echter wel dat veel van de advertentiewaarde zal verschuiven naar de meer niche georienteerde social networks. En daarmee is een waardering van $15 miljard voor MySpace wat mij betreft onzin. Er zal geen winner-takes-all situatie ontstaan en daar is zo’n waardering wel op gebaseerd. […]
December 18th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Hello world