Incremental steps towards openness
Now I hate to say I old yah so, but Facebook’s recent release of feeds to show what your friends status is and what your friends have recently posted - is another giant step down the incremental path towards full openness.
This proves that Facebook are NOT the bad guys, but the good guys.
So what else needs to happen for Facebook to completely open up?
Let’s see:
- access via APIs of the News Feed - the full complete News feed as it’s displayed on your page
- full export of your profile data, soical capital (friends, groups) and content
- ability to write INTO your account, not just export from your account
- full support for OpenID - both eh single signpon aspects of OpenID, as well as the new attribute exchange
So congrats ot everyone at Facebook - KEEP GOING!
And see yah at our DataSharingSummit - Sept 7-8
August 15th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
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August 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am
An external API to *set* your status would be good too.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
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