Facebook courting developer community with new APIs

Today, Facebook released a set of APIs that allow developers to retrieve and display proprietary Facebook information in web and desktop applications.

Information that is available via the documented functions includes profiles, friends, photos, and events. At first glance this is a fairly comprehensive set of information. However, important restrictions are placed on the use of this data in the terms of service–primarily, that developers must preserve the data access restrictions that are in place at Facebook.com:

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