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Facebook Signals Addition of Killer Feature

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Less than a week ago I discussed the prospect of a killer feature on Facebook that allows you to differentiate between various categories of your friends. Within days, Facebook added two new API methods to their platform: friends.getLists and friends.getListsMembers. Watch out LinkedIn, Fac ... Continue reading »

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  • "If the latter, this would be a direct strike against Slide, in turn creating a statement for developers: don’t develop a utility application that becomes enormously popular. If you do, Facebook will take it and add it to their main features."

    I think this just another reason why ultimately Facebook's closed eco-system won't work. Facebook's ability to quickly make an app like yours and steal your thunder is too much of a disincentive to start developing on their platform.

    It causes me to have that much more respect for Twitter, which is essentially just like Facebook Statuses, but is seeing great success independent of Facebook.

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