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# Facebook Opens Platform
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/facebook_opens_/
- Published: 2007-05-25T11:15:58.000Z
- Updated: 2007-05-25T11:15:58.000Z
- Description: Just as MySpace is restricting outside applications, rival Facebook has just comepletely opened its social networking platform to outside developers. Their even encouraging developers to profit from their creations via. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/05/facebook_opens_.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Marketing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

Just as MySpace is restricting outside applications, rival [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/) has just comepletely opened its social

[![Facebook](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/2007/05/25/facebook.jpg "Facebook")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/25/facebook.jpg&ref=hypebot.com)

networking platform to outside developers. Their even encouraging developers to profit from their  
creations via advertising, etc.

Initial creations include [apps](http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci%5F5984117?ref=hypebot.com) from Amazon and Microsoft and tools for marketing music are sure to follow. Some [critics](http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1423&ref=hypebot.com) still say that while the moves may open Facebook to developers; for uses its still a more closed community then MySpace.

([press release](http://sanfrancisco.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=120386&type%5Fnews=latest&ref=hypebot.com))