Facebook launches video system
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(InfoWorld) - Facebook became the latest entrant into the online video battle Thursday, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals. The move allows third parties to develop functions for Facebook, including video, advertising, and retail capabilities. Part of the system will use the company's own markup language, creatively titled Facebook Markup. Since News Corp. bought rival MySpace in 2005, Facebook has struggled to keep pace. Last year, Facebook declined a $1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo, instead choosing to go it alone in hopes of a better offer or greater solo success. Thursday's announcement could push Facebook more towards becoming a commercial provider of social networking tools, rather than attempting to take on MySpace as a consumer play. Allowing outside parties to begin selling advertising on Facebook could also help the company to monetize its audience, estimated by comScore NetworksÂ at just over 23 million visitors per month. Self-starting advertisers and retailers could build their own applications or retail functions, saving Facebook the effort while still providing revenue.
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A New York start-up firm has unveiled a service to cull through massive numbers of online videos to help users find specific clips.
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Social-networking site to unveil a set of developer tools for potentially converting existing Facebook applications.
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Lycos is furthering its Internet video endeavors by launching a service that allows users to create video playlists gathered from content on other Web sites.
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Online video has grown up. Cue the lawyers.
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A start-up wants sports enthusiasts and others to capture video by wearing its tiny video camera.
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A report coming from the Inside Facebook blog today details 3 new features that may be making their debut in Q1 2008.
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Blog: Web site lets people post classified videos
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Social operating system Facebook, the mainstream media web darling du jour, has opened up its development platform to allow other firms to develop applications to run on top of the site, broadening the range of features available to users.â¦
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Facebook Inc, the social-network  site that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the  past three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of  the world how to find them on the site.
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The service had already been offering users a way to stream photos and music from their computers, and its provider announced at CES that it will soon add video to the mix.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining startups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.
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Blog: The social networking company plans to launch an API to connect to other services.
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Facebook wants to make its members' profiles portable, get a handle on software developers, launch ad platform.
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Company is developing software to help big media companies integrate social networking and community into their Web sites.
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By Miriam Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 7--Seeking a piece of the "look-at-me" generation, Comcast yesterday announced a partnership with Facebook that will let the social-networking site's users create and share videos that could become part of a new TV series.
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Facebook lands a Web-based operating system company with pedigree papers.