One of the lacking features of the Facebook platform is the inability to modify groups and events from within applications. Eventually I also think it would be useful to add application support to actual event and group pages but for now developers have been granted the ability to create, modify and delete Facebook events via the API. In a blog post last night, Nathaniel Tucker wrote:

With an active session and the appropriate extended permissions, your application can manage your users’ schedules for any events created through your application. These events appear on their profiles alongside all their other events, so they can easily keep track of what’s coming up as well as invite more friends. Applications that could take advantage of this include those that manage personal events and those that host events.

This means that event focused applications such as concert applications and birthday applications can now assist users in maintaining their calendar through the events program. I could also see this eventually turn into a way to manage reminders for upcoming events. I’ve previously said that having a centralized contact list is important but based on this, it looks like Facebook could theoretically create a centralized calendar as well.

If you’d like more information on developing with events, check out Nathaniel Tucker’s post.