Executive Update

How Social Computing Is Redefining Content

Posted October 31, 2007 | Leadership | Leadership |

On 24 May 2007, the social networking site Facebook announced that it was opening up its API to the public so that Facebook participants could also become Facebook developers. In response, 25,000 developers reportedly launched 1,000 apps built with this API within the first two months [1].

About The Author
Mark Choate
Mark S. Choate is an author and Senior Consultant for Transparensee Systems, a company specializing in search and discovery tools that provide fuzzy matching, faceted search, data visualization, and free text search. He is the author of Professional Wikis. Prior to joining Transparensee, Mr. Choate was cofounder of The Choate Group; a lecturer at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) graduate program; and former VP… Read More
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