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Recently, Facebook instituted new policies to crack down on the rampant spam that has plagued their platform since it launched. At the heart of the problem are “forced invites” and “passive news feeds”. The former are applications that prohibit people from using it unless they invite all their friends first and the later is the [...]
Earlier this summer Facebook announced they were opening up their platform to allow developers to create social applications that could deeply integrate with their functionality and data (and in turn, take advantage of the “social graph” of their 30 million members). We see the potential here as being enormous, and are already hard at work [...]