Did Facebook Just Change the Game for News Orgs?


	Did Facebook Just Change the Game for News Orgs?

Digidave

1-29-2008 2:41 AM

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Digidave says:

If a beat blogger builds a group in Facebook right now, I think the functionality is limited. But soon you might ask a developer at your news organization to build a simple Facebook application (they are surprisingly easy to build) and you can embede it on your own site: Facebook will be open to your growing community - you won't be closed in on theirs.

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