Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @09:44AM 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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The CIA would like to take a moment and say... by unsigned+integer · 2007-02-13 13:21 · Score: 0, Troll

Thanks. I mean seriously. I'm sure that they have tons of facial recognition programs / data collection scripts just WAITING to poll the stuff you people are throwing out into the public domain and link it to your name, address, age, anything else that they can slurp up automatically!

I hope no one on myspace and their ilk have political aspirations .... ever. You'll find your "blog" turned right back in your face when you're running for an important office.