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Facebook Opens Pages to Outside Developers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rolling-your-own dept.

prostoalex writes "Facebook is now allowing third-party developers to create pages within the site. Developers can use a combination of the Facebook API and a subset of HTML to create interactive pages accessible from within Facebook. Users retain complete control over which applications they want to have installed, and which applications they want to see on other people's profile. Developers can build on top of Facebook's social grid, and in case of a popular application gain distribution through Facebook newsfeed."

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  1. Facebook : MySpace :: Microsoft : Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you don't know what Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 are for, GTFO.
    If you think Firefox is a decent Mac application, GTFO.
    If you're still looking for the "maximize" button, GTFO.
    If the name "Clarus" means nothing to you, GTFO.

    Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real Mac users. Keep your filthy, beige PC fingers to yourself.

  2. Re:Facebook != Myspace by Tickletaint · · Score: -1, Troll

    Christ. Seeing the enumeration of those rules does nothing but reinforce my distaste for Facebook. Are they trying to stifle creativity? Is it their intent to appeal only to the blandest, most literal-minded meatheads? At least MySpace gives you room to breathe.

    Go ahead then, mod me down for espousing an alternative perspective.

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