Mitch Kapor: Is Facebook a “Roach Motel” for Developers?
Mitch Kapor’s keynote at Community Next just ended, and he provided a trove of institutional knowledge regarding how to a developer should evaluate a platform before they invest time, effort, and dollars.
He provided a lot of overarching strategic insights, but near the end he delved into Facebook specifics. He admitted that he has not spent a lot of time looking into the APIs, but after some initial research said that there was “a roach motel aspect” to the platform that “concerns” him. Inherent to this is the notion that data can get in but comparatively little can get out. Kapor said that the first five things he wanted to do, Facebook didn’t allow him to get to the data to do it.
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