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Re: We’re covering Facebook Platform…

Facebook Remix — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:28:11 -0000

Saw this funny remix video about this facebook announcement. These guys are sooo young, but kudos to them.

http://my.break.com/media/v...

Re: We’re covering Facebook Platform…

Karel Baloun — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:28:20 -0000

(my post was cut by a "less than" charcter")

It’s clear we’d prefer to do commerce with people we know, and this is a natural evolution of the internet - in less than 10 years I predict most web activity will be social. It's just more natural. Ebay is market capitalized at $44B, half off of its 2005 high, so is this commercial foray works out, FB will be easily over $5B.

Formalizing the position of businesses using the Platform (previously call Facebook API) will encourage designers to invest the development time. For example, I'll implement it on PTrades.com my niche commodities trader social web application - so that for my on-Facebook members, their executed trades will appear in their mutual news feeds.

Re: We’re covering Facebook Platform…

BetterLabs — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:13:08 -0000

I am really really surprised why everyone thinks this is new. Salesforce.com did the exact same thing several years back, and it should not have taken any large social network to have epiphany to think of this. The on-demand platform model worked very well for Salesforce.com, but I am not sure the same applies to consumer social networks. Its tough to think that we will do "all" our social interactions in one network. If this is just a way for them to boost their traffic... sure, it definitely will do that I am sure. Essentially, the app developers who build for facebook will market facebook further as well.

I am not sure this is SO market changing and SO big. And Salesforce.com did the same long back. Ofcourse, I am also not sure if I am right :-)

Re: We’re covering Facebook Platform…

Karel Baloun — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:40:28 -0000

FB's ambition has been to be the "social operating system" of the internet. Ebay was an original platform for business, and FB ads the social dimension, and has already passed ebay's pageviews. I pointed to this ambition from the start of the company in "Inside Facebook" at http://www.FBbook.com. A key link on FB's marketplace shows the listings of your Friends. It's clear we'd prefer to do commerce with people we know, and this is a natural evolution of the internet - in