Facebook: Peace, Love, & Openness

We recently met with Dave Morin - Senior Platform Manager for Facebook. This was a fantastic opportunity for us at Everlater. We view Facebook as a complement (rather than a competitor) to what we are building, and have spent many a late night discussing their role in our future - then coding away to make it happen.

Always wary of becoming YASN (Yet Another Social Network), we want to leverage as much of your existing social network as possible without fragmenting your content and friends more than they already have been.

Dave ensured us that Facebook’s platform is moving in the direction of openness. This is great news for everyone, as it will hopefully reduce the number of YASN’s. Ideally (in our view) this tact will cement Facebook as the central point of content for the people you care about without becoming a “walled garden” that seals you off from other services that can add value to your social graph.

We’d like to thank Dave for his insights and suggestions as both a traveler and big player in the social networking space. Also, check out <a href=”http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post/113001941/a-day-at-techstars”>the Everlater mention in one of his recent blog posts</a>.