MySpace, Facebook and AOL: the same cup of tea…
About a week ago Kottke published his thoughts on the Facebook platform:
As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools, protocols, and interfaces. It’s called the internet and it’s more compelling than AOL was in 1994 and Facebook in 2007.
Naturally there’s a point in that statement. Building exclusive Facebook applications is not the perfect long-term plan for building a sustainable business. As it has been discussed as well, new applications in Facebook often and fast reach a certain user-base before they plan out. Many of these apps has an attractiveness for a moment. That moment can be 1 day, 1 week or 1 year, who knows.
However, Facebook has a more valid existence than AOL and the comparison is not completely fair. Since Facebook’s open platform is one step to a more open Internet and not as AOL wanted to make it, more closed.
Of course, in a perfect world every app would be built with a standardised api that would allow all apps to integrate with each other and facilitate each others growth and none of them would be exclusive to another. Hence, Facebook’s new platform is a first step on the way forward and already the rumours are indicating that MySpace is also opening up their platform. Which earlier has been dubbed AOL 2.0. We’ll see.
[tags]Facebook, AOL, MySpace, 2.0, open api, social networks[/tags]
myspace, facebook, sociala nätverk, aol, api
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- farmhouse kitchen table replied:
where do i get more information on this
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