Facebook Opens Up API
Facebook launched their API this week, entitled the Facebook Developer Platform, which uses REST to make and receive requests from the Facebook service. The discussion on the dev site is already bustling, a Facebook desktop app is already in the works and an IRC channel #facebook is up on Freenode.
To stay up to date, use the FDN News RSS Feed. This is exciting not only because some really cool stuff will be coming out for Facebook, but also because it puts pressure on other social networks to open up their APIs as well (which is something I asked about way back in March).
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moe wrote:
Its not really TRUE REST, but thats an open ended debate. Here is a facebook pop up style notication that my friends and I made..check it out
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http://www.fbquick.com
Posted on 17-Oct-06 at 7:15 pm | Permalink