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The new face of Facebook
What does it mean to the Facebook addicted non-developer? You'll be able to do more with your facebook account, and all in a way sanctioned and sanitized my Facebook's -- so far -- rather intelligent management. A far cry from MySpace, where third party add-ons are banned and re-allowed so often we've mostly stopped bothering to care.
So far the list of new Facebook toys is pretty sweet. The ability to add in content from Twitter, Box, iLike, Forbes and even frivolities like HotorNot should make the FB rank right up there with crack cocaine on many people's web radar. In a recent talk Facebook's creator Mark Zuckerberg claimed that not only does facebook add 100,000 users a day, but half of the users they have come back to the site every single day, racking up 50 pageviews per head for a total of 40 billion views per month. Make the site any more addicitive and the DEA or the ATF will have to step in and initiate steps to list it as a controlled substance.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Khaled said 10:41PM on 5-25-2007
So here's a question; the terms of use for the Facebook platform involve our information (everything from age to summer plans to relationship status to the number of messages you've sent/received and even the number of unread messages in your inbox(!)) are being supplied to producers. Does anyone have more information about this? And is this available to people simply if you use facebook (or more specifically, just the photos and notes features) or is it available based on the new applications you download, or what?
I'd really appreciate more info about this - if anyone knows, please reply here or (preferably) email me @ Kteily at_gmail_dot_com
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lroeder said 8:46AM on 11-10-2007
I love toys. I'm glad they added the ability to add toys to Facebook profiles. They make profiles so much more interesting.
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8jebus8 said 9:39AM on 5-28-2007
too bad half of them don't work...
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Spenser said 6:33PM on 5-28-2007
Ok, I have built some things with the api.
what is lets you do is when I log in on someones site (using the api) they can list off all of my information like age and messages and crap. I can also see a list of my friends and their info (anything I can see in their profile).
in short, anything I can see on facebook, I can see using the api.
if you don't want to be visible with the api (ie hide yourself from http://yourhottestfriend.com) you can go into your privacy settings and change it there.
for the most part it is safe tho, and they are not able to steal your password because you actually sign in on the facebook site and get sent to the api site
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