• 07 Apr 08
  

  mcollier

  Facebook, Friendster, and others are starting to let third-party developers build new features to attract more users—and profits.
  

  LESSON 01- Intro to Social Sites

• 02 Apr 07
  

  taylor parsons

  api api2.0 deli

• 22 Feb 07
  

  hubert guillaud

  Des API ouvertes pour les réseaux sociaux ? C'est la bonne nouvelle qu'annonce enfin cet article (en angl.) de BusinessWeek : les réseaux sociaux vont devenir plus sociaux !

  internetactu2net

• 15 Feb 07
  

  Mike Nall

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• 14 Feb 07
  

  Richard Akerman
  • several social networks are about to open up. Facebook—aimed at college students and a pioneer in opening up its APIs—will move its developer program out of beta testing. The company won't say exactly when it will make its software generally available, but says it will be soon. Rivals such as News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Google's (GOOG) orkut are expected to follow suit and open their code to third-party developers this year as well
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  juan

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  • wraps. Until now. Social-networking sites are realizing that if they want to grow their user base—and build a sustainable business model—they need to attract third-party developers
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  Orlin Monad

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  • this may be the year when social networks become even more social.
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  • • "This is our biggest [month-over-month] growth since launch,"
    • After social network Friendster opened up its proprietary software to a select dozen or so developers six months ago, the number of unique visitors rose by 17.6%
    • more viewers mean higher ad rates.
    • Neither could search giant Google.
    • Facebook's chief executive officer. "We realize we can never provide all applications [our users want]."
    • Facebook, orkut, and Friendster confirm they are actively looking at making their software specs available to developers
    • Rivals such as News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Google's (GOOG) orkut are expected to follow suit and open their code to third-party developers this year as well—promising to kick off a spurt of innovation in social networking.
    • Facebook—aimed at college students and a pioneer in opening up its APIs—will move its developer program out of beta testing.
• 13 Feb 07
  

  Marcel Weiss

  nn social_networks

  • "This is really just the tip of the iceberg," says Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive officer. "We realize we can never provide all applications [our users want]."
  • 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.
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  • • Facebook, orkut, and Friendster confirm they are actively looking at making their software specs available to developers (see BusinessWeek.com, 1/27/07, "Building a Safer MySpace"). MySpace declined to comment.
    • Facebook—aimed at college students and a pioneer in opening up its APIs—will move its developer program out of beta testing. The company won't say exactly when it will make its software generally available, but says it will be soon.
    • Trouble is, most social networks keep these specs under wraps. Until now. Social-networking sites are realizing that if they want to grow their user base—and build a sustainable business model—they need to attract third-party developers. "Social networks have reached a point of maturity, and opening APIs will help them grow,"
    • Tolli and his team need the technical specs that let Virgin or other third-party developers create new services that work smoothly with social-networking sites. In tech jargon, these are called APIs (application program interfaces), and they're the software hooks used by developers to build new applications that can communicate glitch-free with existing programs.

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