Facebook Platform Turns 1 - Revolution or Head Fake?

One year ago today, the Facebook Platform was launched at the f8 conference in San Francisco. Since then, it’s been a roller coaster ride full of twists and turns. Here’s a quick summary of the Facebook Platform story over the last year, in three parts:

Part 1 – The Wild West

In the early Platform days, there was no “Facebook user experience” sheriff in town. Developers were relatively free to run wild as they pleased. Now standard please-invite-your-friends screens and only-slightly-relevant feed stories were quickly adopted as unofficial “best practices” by the most aggressive (and, by provided measures, successful) developers.

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