Tuesday, May 29, 2007

new face for facebook?


"No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. Instead it is becoming a technology platform on which anyone can build applications for social computing." Fortune magazine writes...

By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
May 25 2007



"The short version is that Facebook is taking its two major assets - its 24-million-members (growing at about 150,000 per day) and its strong technology underpinnings - and making them available to all comers.

"We want to make Facebook into something of an operating system so you can run full applications," Zuckerberg told me, saying it would be analogous to the platform that Microsoft Windows provides for developers."

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