Social Networking: A Beginner’s Guide To Facebook
Written by on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 in InterfaceandNavigation Design, social media, Web 2.0, personalmedia aggregator, instant messaging, Digital Imaging, Video-Internet Television, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.
Online social networking services have been around for some time now, with MySpace, Bebo and Facebook leading the pack. One of these contenders, however, has just stepped the whole game up a level, effectively becoming a disruptive technology. Not so very long ago Facebook was one popular flavor of social networking service, differentiated by its user-base, design and specific features. Nevertheless, the differences between Facebook and MySpace or Bebo were less than monumental. All of that has since changed with the launch of the Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform has opened up this already hugely popular online destination to third-party developers, and the results are nothing short of breathtaking. What you now have, in addition to a solid core of social …