Comments on: The mysterious world of Facebook apps, cont’d http://futureoftheinternet.org/the-mysterious-world-of-facebook-apps-contd Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Mon, 07 May 2012 17:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: JoeBorn http://futureoftheinternet.org/the-mysterious-world-of-facebook-apps-contd/comment-page-1#comment-12873 JoeBorn Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:26:06 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=929#comment-12873 on #1&2 I agree that current apps limit the imagination, but I don't agree with the point that without mobility, there's no reason to use FB instead of the open Internet. Think about netflix, how many friends do you have on there? If you're like most folks, you have a handful, and you're loath to spend the time to connect with more folks solely for movies. Think of facebook as a highly sophisticated interactive, community/set of contacts and you'll think of tons of applications. One of the richest areas is actually slicing and dicing all that information. It's pretty clear that vastly more granularity is needed. It's not just "friend" or "not friend" there are close friends, there are people I went to high school, there are work colleagues. There's plenty to do, its just the API is poor and not targeted at enough of the richest areas. on #1&2 I agree that current apps limit the imagination, but I don’t agree with the point that without mobility, there’s no reason to use FB instead of the open Internet.

Think about netflix, how many friends do you have on there? If you’re like most folks, you have a handful, and you’re loath to spend the time to connect with more folks solely for movies.

Think of facebook as a highly sophisticated interactive, community/set of contacts and you’ll think of tons of applications.

One of the richest areas is actually slicing and dicing all that information. It’s pretty clear that vastly more granularity is needed. It’s not just “friend” or “not friend” there are close friends, there are people I went to high school, there are work colleagues.

There’s plenty to do, its just the API is poor and not targeted at enough of the richest areas.

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