Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its sites — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users’ permission. That’s a big change for the social-networking site, which has exercised tight control over the look and feel of its service and how developers can interact with it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078628311057281.htmlFacebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream
Seeing the explosion in growth of Twitter right now, it’s pretty clear that the hot trend on the web is to have a service which acts as a central hub for information, and allows third party sites and services to built on top of it. For most of its life, Facebook has been almost the exact opposite, insisting that developers work from within its walls to keep much of the data – and the users – there. Tomorrow, it looks like Facebook may be knocking down its dam to let its streams of data flow more freely.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/26/facebook-to-let-others-play-in-its-stream/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602363.html
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