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Facebook ignores OpenSocial, embraces Windows Live Contacts API | Outside the Lines

craighal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:47:04 GMT

Nice to see someone 'embrace' an MS web platform over Google's.

Quoted: Facebook is still the odd company out with the OpenSocial APIs, but is on board with the Windows Live Contacts API, which allows members to import Windows Live contacts to their respective sites. Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Outside the Lines.

Quoted: Facebook has signed up to partner with Microsoft on address book portability. Along with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, and Bebo, Facebook is endorsing the Windows Live Contacts API, which allows contact info portability.

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Google gives social networking another go

craighal — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:38:26 GMT

I can totally see Google taking on Facebook and invigorating another social networking development platform. Windows Live has one, as does Yahoo. Question is, who is going to build the platform for the platforms, so things will work everywhere?

Quoted: As I see it, the biggest shortcoming of social-networking sites is their inability to play well with others. Between MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tribe, Pownce, and the numerous also-rans, it seems as if maintaining an active presence at all of these sites could erode into becoming a full-time job. If Google can somehow create a means for all of these services to work together, and seamlessly interact with the Google family, then perhaps this is the killer app that people don't even realize they've been waiting for.

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Microsoft and Facebook Hook Up

craighal — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:31:54 GMT

Nice that Microsoft beat Google to this one... though you have to wonder how far down the barrel they had to reach. Could Facebook really be anywhere near this valuable? Too bad MS didn't beat Google to YouTube, or beat Yahoo! to Flickr.

Quoted: After losing many battles to Web behemoth Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) finally won one. On Oct. 24, the software giant prevailed in its bid for a stake in the social network Facebook. Microsoft agreed to buy a $240 million piece of the company in a transaction that values Facebook at $15 billion.

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Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real?

craighal — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:42:01 GMT

You have to think growth for a vertical like this is not sustainable. People have been asking if Facebook's 15 minutes is up.

Quoted: ...there seems to be a 9.3% decline in their unique visitors from 33.75 million in August 2007 to 30.6 million in September 2007. Even their page views are down 3.8% from August 2007. (See chart.) The only company with worse performance: Classmates.com which has filed to go public. Its unique visitors tanked 19.8%

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