Facebook as Platform

A portion of students in General Studies use the Facebook. Some have said that it was essential to the recent student council elections, while others point out that there are students intentionally not involved in it and therefore it shouldn't be the only way students are messaged. Either way, students have voted for Facebook with their mouseclicks and the company now offers tools for software developers like myself to hook into the functionality they offer and to build additional functionality. This new Facebook software platform may be compelling enough to cause us to invest in actually building on the platform. I will have to learn more about it.

Here is an article from TechCrunch about the release.
Here is a recent article from Money/CNN.com regarding the new development release.

An example of a new application built into Facebook.

Thanks,

Brody