Comments on: The ‘Opening’ of the Facebook http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/06/the-opening-of-the-facebook/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Cameron http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/06/the-opening-of-the-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-33793 David Cameron Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:15:58 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/06/the-%e2%80%98opening%e2%80%99-of-the-facebook/#comment-33793 As Facebook continues to open their platform to a larger community of both users and developers, they aren't as open as they seem. I came across an interesting <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but-on-its-own-terms/" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> which describes how a Facebook engineer reacted to a developer placing a piece of PHP code on his blog that would allow someone to edit a user's status without visiting their own profile (and ultimately not seeing advertisements). As the post suggests they are opening up, but ultimately on their own terms. As Facebook continues to open their platform to a larger community of both users and developers, they aren’t as open as they seem.

I came across an interesting blog post which describes how a Facebook engineer reacted to a developer placing a piece of PHP code on his blog that would allow someone to edit a user’s status without visiting their own profile (and ultimately not seeing advertisements).

As the post suggests they are opening up, but ultimately on their own terms.

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