A Few Random Items
1) Steven Wright on Twitter is not Steven Wright. He is a Twitter user named Rex. He also does a Condi page on Twitter. Gotta love that. I just subscribed.
2) I've now added the Flickr and Delicious Facebook apps to my profile. They were not written by Flickr and Delicious. Both were written by a high school freshman named Steven Bao. Jake Jarvis and Steven Bao are high school freshman who are living examples of the open web ecosystem. Got to find out if there are child labor laws preventing venture deals with fifteen year olds.
3) Facebook third party apps aren't the same as Facebook first party apps. Why don't my Flickr photos show up in my friends mini-feed? Why can't I make my Twitter message be my Facebook status message? That's gotta come next.
Could you post links to the apps? I can't believe that that Facebook doesn't have a search field for application names in the applications directory.
I found the delicious one.
http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2570836060&b
Posted by: engtech @ internet duct tape | May 29, 2007 at 12:32 PM
FB applications do have the ability to post items to YOUR Mini-Feed, but I don't think they can post to your friend's News Feed (although I'm not positive about that).
FB needs to be VERY careful about what interactions they allow for a couple reasons. The main one is privacy. There needs to be separation between applications and certain things. The other thing, is if they allow too much customization and interaction, Facebook will lose the clean feel that makes its soooooo much nicer than MySpace.
The day Facebook allows arbitrary CSS/HTML customization of profiles, or autoplaying music/movies, is the day I switch to another social network.
Posted by: Tom | May 29, 2007 at 03:57 PM
Fred, thank you for the mention in this article. The Flickr app is here:
http://hs.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2470240448
I'm currently writing updates to the Flickr app to include the much-anticipated updates. I agree that there's a discrepancy between Facebook's apps and third party apps, and that's something that Facebook is going to have to work out and push API changes, keeping in mind flexibility vs. performance vs. security.
Posted by: Steven Bao | May 29, 2007 at 04:52 PM
Wow, Steven and Jake bring a whole new dimension to "The Age Question". That's awesome.
Posted by: Jarid | May 30, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Steven Wright is, however, on Eventful. For real.
Posted by: brian | June 03, 2007 at 12:01 AM