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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace

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From GIGAOM: "Now Zuckerberg says you can serve ads on your app pages and keep all the revenue, sell them yourselves or use a network, and process transactions within the site, keeping all the revenue without diverting users off Facebook."

This sounds interesting.

Wow, Zuckerberg is genius.

I remember everyone (including myself)criticizing Facebook for not taking the Yahoo deal.

If this works, they might become the first truly great and useful portal.

Google, are you guys paying attention?

Yah, I thought he was an idiot for not taking the Yahoo deal. I'm humbled by the announcement today.

the only question I have: How are the developers protected from facebook launching similar products when their product proves that it makes money or draws a lot of traffic?

Edit: Fixed

Even if you don't use facebook's platform, they can still launch similar products. The bigger threat is facebook discontinuing the platform or restricting what you can do, though I doubt they'll do either.

Vaild point, but no need to shout! Theres always a risk when using a platform. There are some ideas that you can do which facebook itself are unlikely to eg mosoto

Good point too! To me this feels like signing up for a franchise instead of starting your own business, you have control, but not full control. For some purposes or ideas it's a great.

Theres an interesting quote in the gigaom article:

one company even telling us it was considering transitioning its current million-plus-user application into being purely a Facebook application.

Sounds like a crazy plan. Is this hotornot possibly?

Now, that would be crazy. How do you make money with that?

Looks like I talked too soon about mosoto. One of te facebook applications is box.net integration which kind makes mosoto redundant.

I can't wait until it launches tonight - I've been strung out since the announcement @ 3...

I'm there now.. this is a really amazing set of ideas...

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