mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2008 | facebook, open social, data, social
Really excellent guest-post on TechCrunch detailing the data structures on FaceBook, and what the TOS allows applications to export from the FB platform (more than you think).
Quoted: The following guest post was written by Dan Birdwhistell, founder of people directory Bigsight (reviewed here) and creator of Hacking Facebook, a website ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2008 | google, igoogle, facebook, open social, web development
When iGoogle launches their new canvas and Open Social features, Google's personalized home page is going to bear a strong resemblance to the Facebook home page.
With 10's of millions of users using iGoogle, this could be back-door competition for Favebook and other social networks, by just integrated the news feed functionality into each user's home page.
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- tomfakes - Jun 29 2008
You must be Mike's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I don't know of any popular app that asks users to opt in again to allow full export - presumably FriendCSV does.
Without the user opting in, you can't store anything useful beyond 24 hours.
There are some apps that have you fill out an information form, pre-filled with data from Facebook - it seems they didn't need to do all this work, a simple checkbox and some text is all that's needed!
Send Mike a friend request or a personal message instead.