Entries Tagged as 'facebook应用'

Facebook应用:只是为了好玩

数据分析公司FlowingData做了一件非常“有意义”的事,它把Facebook平台上的 23160个应用,划分为22大类,比如“just for fun”、“gaming”、“food and drink”等等,具体见下图。结果你猜怎么着,9601个应用只是 “just for fun”,比重超过41%。紧随其后的是“gaming”和 “sports”,数量都分别超过了2000,“chat”也很靠前。由此可见,绝大多数Facebook应用的目的是为了好玩。我不觉得这些东西“没有意义”,毕竟娱乐是大家的需要。

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Study reveals shocking truth: Most Facebook apps are silly, pointless

(via webware)

The world of social networking may never be the same.

A new study from number-crunching firm Flowing Data did some eye-opening work recently, dividing 23,160 Facebook applications into 22 categories. A whopping 9,601 of them fall into Facebook’s “just for fun” category, followed by “gaming” and “sports” with over 2,000 each. In other words, the majority of Facebook applications are goofy time-wasters. Read more.

Fackbook应用将遍地开花,对Google OpenSocial只差最后一击

上周五晚,Facebook发布了一个“JavaScript client library” (关于javascript library的意思,可以参见wikipedia的词条,此链接国内需代理访问),这个工具让各种facebook应用(facebook app)除了可以在facebook站点访问以外,还可以(几乎)从任何站点进行访问,只要这个站点支持静态html页面就可以。应用这个工具(javascript client library)的facebook应用将被归为iframe类型。

对此事,Allfacebook最早进行了报道techcrunch也进行了跟进报道。最能说明这个举动意义的是Dan Farber的报道

他说,这个工具的发布从某种角度来说不是什么新的创举,因为这种从外部网站访问facebook API的功能,从facebook平台建立时就有了。不过之前需要外部服务器的代码和一写写程序的技巧才能做到。这个工具的发布的意义在于,现在可以很简单的完成这件事。
因此,很多网站将可以放置facebook应用,网站的数量会激增。现在剩下的唯一一件事,是有人写一个全面的facebook应用生成器(a turn-key Facebook application creator),就像Ning已经在自己的社群网站上做的一样,我们将看到facebook widget将在网络上迅速的繁殖。

好了,老人家的话引用完了。当facebook widget在网络上遍地开花的时候,google opensocial还有出世的必要吗?

Facebook unleashes wave of new development with JavaScript client library

(via zdnet)

Now, in some ways, this announcement doesn’t break any new ground. As a commenter on Nick Neill’s post Facebook Extends Platform to the Web noted, the ability to make calls from an external website to the Facebook API has existed since the launch of the Facebook platform. This capability, however, had previously required server side code (and some programming skill). Now, with the release of the JavaScript library, that is no longer true. And that additional functionality is what makes this release significant.Read more.