Facebook+Across+the+Web

Martino A.

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Facebook has recently introduced their plan to expand across the web. They are including a number of new features for both users and developers that will make it easy for Web sites to provide "social experiences." It was founded in 2006 by Mark Zuckerberg along with his college room mates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The site was initially limited to hardvard students, later expanding to other colleges and lastly anyone aged 13 or older. Today, Facebook has about 400 million checking in daily, establishing itself as one of the web's most popular social networking company's.

Facebook is making it so all Web sites can work together to build a more comprehensive map of connections and create a better, more social experiences for everyone. This next version of Facebook Platform puts people at the center of the web. An example of what the changes will bring would be if you like a band on Pandora, that information can become part of a graph that if concert site was to be brought up, listings for when that band will be in your area will come up.

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Teaming up with Facebook it is a good way to incoorporate yourself into the open graph, helping to create a smarter, personalized web connected to Gen-Y. By teaming up with Facebooks social networking services, one will be able to develop an in with the expanding Gen-Y population. As the features spread across the Web, people’s connection to Facebook would strengthen, making the site, which has more than 400 million users, even more popular.



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