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Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:33:07 +0000

[...] to be moving towards lately. You see they’re putting a huge focus on this after opening their Apps Directory this last week. More exposure == more money for both Facebook and those developing their apps. In [...]

By: peter corbett

peter corbett — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:40:50 +0000

Nick, full access to facebook applications by google and others would mean significant portions of our social graphs would be visible to the world.

Facebook is what it is because the graph is not public, only available to friends, facebook, app devs and othe marketing partners. If the graph gets to exposed ppl will dump facebook.

So…I guess my point is I believe in the balance there promoting with the move.

By: peter corbett

peter corbett — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:40:50 +0000

Nick, full access to facebook applications by google and others would mean significant portions of our social graphs would be visible to the world.

Facebook is what it is because the graph is not public, only available to friends, facebook, app devs and othe marketing partners. If the graph gets to exposed ppl will dump facebook.

So…I guess my point is I believe in the balance there promoting with the move.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:49:49 +0000

this is really huge if you have a non-facebook audience / promotion already.

it also makes it easier for people to write about apps and link to them on blogs.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:49:49 +0000

this is really huge if you have a non-facebook audience / promotion already.

it also makes it easier for people to write about apps and link to them on blogs.