Online social network site Facebook has opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites, with rival site Bebo the first major rival to implement the platform. The move comes in response to criticism that developers wouldn't create applications for Facebook because the website is too "closed" to be an effective market, and sets up a potential clash between Facebook's now open platform and OpenSocial, the open development platform initiative Google Inc. launched in November. Facebook senior platform manager Ami Vora first posted the news in a blog entry on Wednesday.
"(We) want to share the benefits of our work by enabling other social sites to use our platform architecture as a model," he wrote. "In fact, we'll even license the Facebook platform methods and tags to other platforms." Facebook has been steadily growing in popularity since the site became available to all users in 2006, and now ranks as one of the most popular sites on the web. The site claims it has more than 58 million active members, more than seven million of them in Canada. Part of what has spurred the growth was the site's decision earlier to open its platform to developers so they could create unique programs for the site, programs that allow users to share messages, quizzes, photos, or other media.
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I would have to agree. I just started using facebook a few weeks ago and so far I'm not impressed. Those 3rd party applications make the site look ridiculously childish and amateurish. The invites get annoying as well. No, I do not want to be a vampire...thank you.
+1. I hate them. 95% of them are just plain stoopid.
I started using it just before the applications came out, and I was gone for a few weeks, came home, and found these nice little "applications" plaguing the site. I hate searching through people's 20+ applications to find their wall, lol.
http://facebook.com/privacy.php?view=platform&tab=all <- click
I HATE those invites. I get them all the time. I use a total of 2 applications (and they're not those stupid useless ones).
So easy to add/share/tag photos etc, see others status', shared events/calendar service, add new people (you meet as you just need their name), messaging service is really good too....
I find the applications are great. The whole righthand side of my welcome page is full of invites I don't want, it doesn't bother me as I don't look at it, I have email alerts for anything interesting eg new friends, info or event.
I find the applications are great. The whole righthand side of my welcome page is full of invites I don't want, it doesn't bother me as I don't look at it, I have email alerts for anything interesting eg new friends, info or event.
You do know you can get rid of the invites on the right-side page by clicking on one, then clicking on Ignore on all of them?
Does this mean anything for non-developers?
Other media = stupid useless applications that nag you and send you invites all the time, so that the receiver is constantly annoyed upon login and must therefore cancel them all.
/end rant
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