eWeek has a very interesting article on the man, Adam D’Angelo, and the company, Facebook, taking the Internet by storm on the back of their platform for developers. Basically, their applications platform is part openID/single sign-on, part toy box, and part mash-up server:
“If we weren’t going to do this [develop an enterprise mashup platform for developers], somebody else would,” Burton said. “Because you see it in the consumer world—I mean 3,000 apps on Facebook within three months. … Look at it, there are 3,000 applications on Facebook and Facebook doesn’t crash every night and the photos don’t get compromised every night. Why? Because they thought about exposing functionality through interfaces.” Via eWeek
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