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Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs

Posted by kdawson on from the importing-friends dept.

prostoalex writes "Business Week magazine is looking at social networking sites opening their APIs to third-party developers to enable social applications not supported by the network itself. Facebook is setting an example by releasing their API from beta into 1.0, and many others are expected to follow the suit. Quoting from the article: 'Since Facebook, a network of 17 million college students, started a pilot program last summer, third-party developers have created some 100 new applications. Now a Facebook user name and password can be used to log in to content-sharing and chat site Mosoto, and to automatically import Facebook friends into Mosoto's buddy list for chat. Facebook itself does not offer a chat function.'"

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  1. myspace has already done this by President_Camacho · · Score: 2, Funny

    Business Week magazine is looking at social networking sites opening their APIs to third-party developers to enable social applications not supported by the network itself.

    You mean Myspace doesn't have enough third-party "applications"?

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  2. Advaned Programming Interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    RE: Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs

    Great, now if I could just find a woman on one to open her API

    1. Re:Advaned Programming Interface by Misch · · Score: 5, Funny

      From thinkgeek:

      Please note: Adding love.h to your partner object requires a few additional objects be streamed in before some functions are made available:

      #include <love.h>

      Partner significantOther;
      Dinner dinner;
      Flowers flowers;

      significantOther << dinner << flowers;


      Otherwise the call to significantOther.putOut() will throw an UninitializedMember() exception.

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    2. Re:Advaned Programming Interface by Misch · · Score: 2, Funny

      >man woman
      No manual entry for woman

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    3. Re:Advaned Programming Interface by Anubis350 · · Score: 2, Funny

      $ whatis woman
      woman: nothing appropriate

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    4. Re:Advaned Programming Interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No manual entry for woman

      I enter them manually all the time. Bug marked WORKSFORME.

  3. Re:Great, when do we get a Slashdot API? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably the minute Slashdot becomes social. /ducks