Comments on: Facebook Opens Status Updates? http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/04/27/facebook-opens-status-updates/ Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Open Stream « Wir sprechen Online. http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/04/27/facebook-opens-status-updates/#comment-2480 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:53:22 +0000 http://wir-sprechen-online.com/?p=5422#comment-2480 [...] Facebook Opens Status Updates? [...]

]]> By: Gerrit Eicker http://wir-sprechen-online.com/2009/04/27/facebook-opens-status-updates/#comment-2474 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:15:40 +0000 http://wir-sprechen-online.com/?p=5422#comment-2474 WSJ: “Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its sites – namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles – to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.”

TC: “If Facebook really is opening most of its data, it would seem to me it’s a smart move to stop some of the momentum that smaller rivals, like Twitter, are getting. After all, Facebook still has its big stick – over 200 million users and more importantly, their data. Now it may be able to fully swing it.”

Mashable: “We’ll likely see a bunch of new applications to post media to Facebook (think: browser plugins and desktop applications) and explore content from friends, but building an open ecosystem will not change the closed culture of Facebook and our willingness to share with only a small circle of personal friends there. Twitter, then, remains the most open…culturally, at least.“

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