Sharing My Vision

Photo by Brian Solis

There was one major announcement that came from the Facebook developers conference that I thought deserved to be amplified. I’ll keep this post short and sweet, and leave the analysis up to the pro-bloggers.

Here is what I thought was important. Facebook is fundamentally changing the way it thinks of applications and allowing developers to build richer integrations than ever allowed before.

Simple Example:
When you do activities on other sites, like Digg articles, or rent videos on Netflix, your activity shows up in your news feed. It is clear your news feed will become the central aspect of facebook and bring together all your friend’s activities from other sites. People are writing in depth about the subject here, and here.

The idea of the Facebook widget is dying. The era of full scale facebook integration is what’s to come. Facebook will become your home base for you and your friends’ web activity. Now the race is on to adapt your website, social network, and community to these new standards.

Facebook is a priceless database and their recent change creates opportunities for startups in every industry to build applications we’ve never seen before. This is essentially the beginning of web 3.0, if you want to call it that.

This is the very point where innovation of one, affects innovation of many.

Get the Red Bulls out. Game on.