Netvibes Shoots One Over the Bow
Posted on August 2, 2007
Filed Under web 2.0 |
"Facebook does not currently allow outsider providers to access the News Feed. In other words, Facebook won’t let us display your News Feed from the front page in our widget (or change your status for that matter.) If you would like to see the News Feed in your Netvibes Widget, please join our Facebook group on the issue or tell Facebook!"
While it’s interesting that Netvibes released a Facebook Widget, what is more interesting to me is the larger struggle over how open Facebook really is. It’s one thing to be open as in anyone can write an app for Facebook, but on another level it’s really quite a closed platform because Facebook itself decides what to enable and what they don’t want to enable.
If Netvibes is successful in formenting a large swell of user demand to unlock the news feed, well it will be conclusive proof that social networks really are owned by the members and not the company providing them, however in doing so Facebook will be releasing what they themselves acknowledge is the secret sauce of their success, the social graph.
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