Facebook: New APIs

eWeek: Facebook Launches New APIs for Facebook Platform

“Your application will have access to any status, notes, or links from the active user or their friends that are currently visible to the active user,” said a Feb. 6 post on the Facebook Developers blog. “In addition, we’re opening new APIs for you to post links, create notes, or upload videos for the current user, and we’ve made setting a user’s status easier.”

They also say that this is to stop an attack from Twitter. For me, facebook's value comes in the form of the actual content on the site, rather than status updates. I've never been a fan of Twitter. It will be interesting to see whether, when it comes time to choose, people's default accounts online will be their Google Accounts or their facebook ones. Let's see Google buy up facebook and link it all into one, giant, Internet monopoly!