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Scoble: my biggest link so far remains scobleizer, my app went from about 1000 to close to 4000, 1 day. thats installed users not just clicks.

cheers!

scraping facebook feeds: bernard is right! :) he would need to scrape the feed (off of the main news-feeds) the ones that facebook already provides are status updates and notifications. I think facebook might probably try to block something like this tough.

RBA: the fact that most facebook apps work "inside" facebook is a design or implementation choice, not a requirement of the platform. i.e. having the app display inside fb saves a lot of developer time (design/seesion tracking/fbml). I'm pretty sure however we will start seeing many external sites using the FB platform soon.

I'm still not getting why people insist that facebook, as a platform, is a "closed system", am I missing something???
A)anyone can develop apps on said system, no need for authorization
B)anyone can access information from their users and display it on an external site, of course not all-data is available, but that would make no sense because of the privacy issues

There are certain parts of FB that of course aren't open (like the user's profiles outside of FB)but that's FB the site, not FB the platform.

Jeremiah: I don't know how that wordpress app is implemented, but if it's just crawling the feed of your blog it can't really write anything on it or access any information that isn't already public. The developer could however "put up a goatze" on your profile box, but that's as far as it gets (I realize it would be pretty bad, but I guess you should only install apps if you trust the developer as on any system). As for SEO code, first I don't think google indexes or could index user's profiles and also FB caches anything that goes on the profile boxes so they wouldn't allow it).

peace,
mario romero

@smorty71: It's hard to think of such huge amounts of money, but yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say if you want to lend me the money I'll make an offer ;)

Josh got it exactly right

@Herb: That is an awesome idea! I'll look into it.

Please someone tell me how is FB comparable to Second Life?? SL IMHO is just video game (and one that gets boring fast), that aside I think that whole corporations inside the video game may have some value, why not use the same model on other online games? It would ROCK to play say the latest final fantasy online for free, brought to you by sponsors x,y,z (i.e. "just stop by their stand, they are giving away the x magic sword for free to each player") Now that would be cool, but I digress... Now on to FB plataform... what's so cool about this baby is that it gives developers ready-access to the connections already there between (30Million+? and growing users) A LOT of web-apps involve a social component in one way or another, 2 months ago if you wanted to build a social app of some sort you basically had to build a network yourself, which a)took A LOT of time if you wanted something good B)sucks to be a user and have 30x different networks with mostly the same friends.

About FB being for college kids, this is for you Chris, dude how can this be for any particular type of user?? I'm a college kid, so all right, most of my friends who are there are in college, well duhh, most of my friend in real life are in college. Scoble's friend list has clearly a very different demographic. The only way FB was only for college was if socializing ended after you graduate...

one last thing I don't see getting the deserved attention is how FB pltaform effects Vertical Social networks. In my opinion they will either integrate to FB Platform or dissapear. I think I remember reading a post by someone at Ilike when plataform was lanuched, the dude basically said he was unsure if FB platfrom should be their main focus or their ONLY FOCUS. Nice. http://appaholic.com/display/2413267546
that's almost 5 million Ilike app users and counting.. how mmany where there before FB platform?? not even funny

OMG Scoble man! thanks a million for this write-up, this is beyond cool.. Just wanted to let you know I'm getting together with a couple of friends and we will keep developing this thing trough, this is just the beginning :) btw your requested feature is coming soon.. as in tonight! :)

In case anyone is interested, http://appaholic.com/display/2354684299 this are our users stats courtesy of appaholic.com which is wicked cool site for tracking FB apps!

peace,
mario romero

The main thing to consider is that FB isn't a social network anymore (in the sense that MySpace or Bebo are) it has become a platform. Pure and Simple. Now that my sound like marketing hype if you haven't actually looked at the platform but I assure you, it's not. The effects that this will have on the whole web industry (not only FB apps) I think will be hugely important (allready are?).. take openID for example... what's the point anymore?? If you were planning to use openID on your site.. why not just integrate with FB login instead??? your users won't have to type their info for a gazillion time and you get all the viral sexyness of the Social Graph.. as someone said in the FB Developers newsgroup, now anytime someone thinks up of web idea that involves a social component, he'll have to consider if it wouldn't be better/easier/faster using the FB platform.

here is the link for the Google Reader app (thanks for diging it Scoble!)
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
also a lot of new features coming this weekend

btw, not affiliated with google at all.. or FB for that matter.

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thanks

great article, infinite sessions, and when and how to use them is another mystery to me.

I think the legal difference lies in the fact that mp3.com would let you access your entire library online, nutsie I think is just making a personalized radio station based on your itunes library...

> agree.
>when will they start launching apps that actually do interact with one’s social graph?


working on it