June 8, 2007

Facebook Opens Its Pages to 'Widgets'

Facebook, the dominant social-networking Web site for college students, is opening up its pages. The company, which has had a set-format policy, said in late May that it would allow anyone to add "widgets" to their pages.

That means plain-vanilla Facebook pages could soon have music players, games, or collections of book reviews written by the page owner.

http://chronicle.com Section: Information Technology Volume 53, Issue 40, Page

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