Custom tags to make Facebook apps faster, more interesting and ubiquitous - VentureBeat
Tue, Jan 13th, 2009
Facebook is now letting third-party application developers create their own snippets of code, called "custom tags." These tags can used to make an application run faster or used to build features from one application into another application - a game app could use these tags to integrate a song from a music application, for example. Facebook also plans to further develop these tags for Facebook Connect, a service that lets third-party sites do things like let users sign in and comment using their Facebook identities. One day, these sites could embed Facebook applications as widgets, using the social identity of Facebook users to make the sites more valuable.
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