Facebook, In Your Face...Even More Than Before

by ryan | May 25, 2007 at 08:02 am

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Update: NowPublic has launched its Facebook application!

The new application allows Facebook users to view NowPublic stories as
part of their Facebook profile. You can choose to show the
best NowPublic stories or the most recent stories you've posted.

In an attempt to eat up even more of our time, Facebook is no longer just for snooping on your ex's photos or creeping through friends' profiles. Facebook is poised to launch its new platform and business model which they hope will become the center of our online lives.

Now Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is inviting thousands of technology companies and programmers to contribute features to its service. They can even make money from the site’s users by doing so, and, at least for now, Facebook will not take a cut.

Some of the new features, demonstrated by software developers at a Facebook event here on Thursday, will allow members to recommend and listen to music, insert Amazon book reviews onto their pages, play games and join charity drives, all without leaving the site.

The result is expected to be a proliferation of new tools and activities for Facebook’s 24 million active users, who have largely been limited to making online connections, sharing photos and planning events.