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...Facebook Opened UpThe word platform reached buzzword status a year ago when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of a movement. "Social networks are closed platforms," Zuckerberg told a gathering of about 800 developers in San Francisco. "Today we're going to change all that...
...like the ability to virtually poke a friend, to fully formed games like Scrabulous - were available to Facebook's users. Expect loads more. Facebook has given out its API keys - the code that developers need to access Facebook's platform-an astounding 400,000 times, many more than even Zuckerberg expected...
...Zuckerberg, 24, is a hot ticket on the conference circuit, and when I spoke to him, he had just returned to Palo Alto, Calif., from a major tech-industry event near San Diego. There he had been grilled yet again on whether he'd sell Facebook to Microsoft, whose minority investment gave Facebook a $15 billion valuation. (Microsoft, which tried and failed to buy Yahoo!, could use a new platform itself.) Yet again Zuckerberg said no, he's not selling out - he's just trying to build a great and viable platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks...
...derived from advertising based on the number of people who install their programs, and a bunch have adapted in intrusive ways. Facebook has taken flak for applications like FunWall, which made it easy for users to accidentally spam their entire friend lists with e-mail invites to install FunWall. Zuckerberg says Facebook is tweaking its platform to help the most useful apps to spread while squelching the junk...
Facebook.com founder Mark E. Zuckerberg will soon shake a lawsuit that has dogged his multi-billion dolllar social networking site since its inception in a Kirkland House dorm room, according to the New York Times. The Times reported yesterday that Facebook and ConnectU—a similar site launched by three Harvard graduates who allege that Zuckerberg stole the concept after working for them—will soon settle their competing law suits. Neither Facebook, ConnectU, nor Facebook’s attorneys returned requests for comment yesterday. A lawyer representing ConnectU declined to comment. According to the Times...