I don’t need to tell you how smart Facebook is, but I will anyway

Also in that article I mentioned earlier, there’s a brief paragraph of the openness of Facebook as a platform, which is what enables all of these applications in the first place.

What Zuckerberg and the Facebook team get, which I really don’t have to tell you (but I’m going to state the obvious anyway), is that all of these applications add value to Facebook.

Letting developers experiment and create useful tools on your service, and then letting them profit from it is a decision that just makes sense. Facebook has it’s own revenue stream, from the things that it has done (which it does better than other networks).

By allowing other people to profit from their own creativity, Facebook is encouraging outside developers to grow their user base for them.

Why don’t other networks like Myspace do this? Myspace is owned by Newscorp. And as forward-thinking as Newscorp is among the giants, it’s not forward thinking enough to realize that the internet is not the place to be proprietary. Maybe eventually they’ll figure it out.

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