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Title: Facebook Spreads its Web Wider

Author: Allison, Kevin Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Financial Times, p14(1) Publication Date: Jun 29, 2007
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URL of Publication: http://www.ft.com

Facebook's namesake website is now open to outside programmers, and many enterprises are taking advantage of the open approach to build services that use connections between the millions of users of Facebook. Outside companies ability to integrate their features with Facebook's messaging infrastructure and other services will transform Facebook from a social networking site to a launching pad for Internet applications. Commenting and in unanimous approval are such Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) as co-founder of PayPal Max Levchin, managing director for Draper Fisher Jurvetson Andreas Stavropoulous, CEO Avi Partovi of iLike, and head of international operations for Bebo Joanna Shields. Mr. Levchin says Facebook will be the next major operating system (OS), and Mr. Stavropoulous says all the web 2.0 supports are on the Facebook radar. An example is Web 2.0 company iLike, which is a music sharing service that has reassigned 80 percent of staff to work on Facebook. The iLike website, he says, grows by a million users a month, but the company is growing by a million users a week on Facebook. Joanna Shields says Bebo will also announce plans to open its platform soon, and MySpace and LinkedIn are considering open access to developers.

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