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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

November 2007— Mark Cuban pitches to #Facebook an API that extends past the Facebook domain. He describes what would eventually become Facebook's Open Graph and Graph API, the catalysts to the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal that would occur six years later.

#Meta #OpenSocialWeb #InternetHistory

Think "What is my search mood today: Information, entertainment, purchasing, bored !..." as a precursor to an actual search. The options that would enable smarter use of the web are endless. Not everyone would avail themselves of what I call Personal Database Publishing to enhance the internet experience, but I believe enough would. Of course any application can currently ask for this information and many do. But I dont want to have to publish and maintain a database for every application I want to use or happen to use. Nor do I want to have to maintain multiple social n work accounts to make this information available. I recognize that this is the exact problem that Google wants to solve with their OpenSocial. But they are too late ... If Facebook opens their API up further and allows for its use outside the Faccbook.com domaiz So back to Yahoo and the Facebook API. I thought that if you put the 2 together, enabling Yahoo to access the Facebook database of users within the current API constraints, Yahoo search and ad