So it's here. The Facebook API. I think this is the future honestly. Web platforms.
Instead of going to several different sites for different social things, users now go to one website for all social applications: Facebook has video now (send quick vid messgaes), photos, Last.FM *cough* i mean iLike, groups, causes, and shared RSS feeds.
Facebook API is also great for businesses. Instead of making a website with so much value that users will want to navigate all the way over to their website, the new business app is available right there on an established website with millions of users.
The Possibilities
- Weather block on friends pages
- RSS Feeds (though somebody implemented that before I did)
- SourceForge/Subversion integration,
- Digg.com replacement
I'm looking forward to sharing all the concerts that I go to on Facebook. I've been putting my list of pending shows in my "Fav TV Shows" box because I don't watch TV.
The Problems
iLike is actually massively slow right now. Perhaps it's the 20,000+ users all joining at once.
The Future
Facebook apps will take over in the same way that RSS feeds have. RSS feeds helped both the authors to have a bigger audience, and audience to read more authors conveniently. Websites built on aggregated content is the future. Digg.com, AppleTV, piratebay.com, and youtube.com all seem to point this this way.
Facebook seems to have the de facto monopoly on this market as far as I know. MySpace certainly isn't doing this. I'm waiting for the anti-trust law suits to start showing up in a year or two when Facebook buys Yahoo instead of Yahoo buying Facebook.
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