Facebook is already some years old but the anniversary of the “true” facebook  all got to know first was the one it turned into when they launched their Facebook Application Platform that changes Social Networks and even changed some of the original plans Google had and formed part of the reason why the Yahoo brand stumbled into a hole, a minor role into that but they helped.

Facebook Platform turns one year old

The single reason Facebook managed to get where they are it was because of the hype and the mindshare they made when they launched the FBAP.

One year later and the reason they rose to the heights is exactly the reason why they stopped ascending.  Facebook apps and widget-apps for that matter became something even worse than the bling cluttered MySpace pages from 2006-2007. they turned into Spam and bad bacon. myspace pages and bling were and are a threat to good taste, but they don´t spam you, do they?.

and then Facebook profiles turned into bling and trivial app cluttered ridden unsustainable garbage because all of us got good friends who simply don´t give a damn about looks or good taste. do we unfriend them?. no because they are our friends in real life and unfriend them is not a question. things are worse when your own family members are part of facebook and the offenders of such crimes. interesting how even a walled garden like facebook got into that problem.

Facebook Changes Look

Facebook got older and wiser and like in life, when you reach to certain age, you decide to experiment and have a makeover. change after all good right?.

It is but, there will be always someone hurt and someone to gain from that change. in this case the ones that get hurt are the App makers. they made facebook and now Facebook is turning the back on them?

partly true, but it is for the greater good. i welcome facebook changes. i got 3 facebook accounts from where i experiment in the platform. i can tell you that i got one profile that is placed as if i were a average user and it is a mess so bad that i cannot even look at it. and that is also because of the people i have friended  in it, my most conservative profile account. the one i actually link to is more clean and is still a little redundant and i can take myself to try apps in it because of the clutter.

That is why that while app makers may suffer from now , the answer to their woes could be around the corner. this change of look is about to give Facebook users a chance to split their attention and also manage their profiles better.

I see it as taking the knifes away from the table from a 7 year old. the kid knows the knife is dangerous but the kid still likes to take the risk and play with the knife. taking it away is the only way to assure that even if he gets hurts in other way later, he will not be able to cut himself and then call you upon to it.

Facebook Goes Open Source

While there a plenty ways of interpret this i think it not only a response to Open Social and all the other Social Network platform but the path to get Facebook ready for whatever integration or spin off we may see from Facebook acquired Parakey.

Another thing i have noted from the new Facebook design is the emphasis on facebook turning into THE lifestream solution and that the tabbed profile model resembles very well what netvibes has been turning to: a social starpage. Facebook is gearing to be various things with this change:

Facebook=

• The Social Network
• The Social Search
• The Social Startpage

And maybe even a Social Graph integrated user generated Web Services provider and platform that will extend to the common web without data having to be bridged out to leave facebook. this is what they would need to become so Facebook could become a multithreaded company like Google and may be the reason why they have recruited so many Google and many Mozilla supporters as their workforce.

I maybe be going to stretch with the last thing. but the first 3 things. those are things i know that should be a given.

Facebook Future

I agree with Nick O´Neill. it is hard to predict the future of a company like facebook but that is because unlike other companies they got many options and roads they could go with. and that is exactly what makes it so interesting to follow.

via AllFacebook

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