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Vous l'avez sans doute remarqué, le buzz du moment est autour de Facebook, qui devient une sorte de "social OS" (pour tous ceux qui croyaient que j'allais parler de l'iPhone, désolé... ;-) ). Francis Pisani en a longuement parlé sur son blog, et Frédéric Cavazza vient de lui emboîter le pas (pour ne citer que des sources françaises...)

Matthew Gertner de AllPeers livre sur Peer Pressure une analyse très pertinente des atouts de Facebook dans la course pour devenir une plateforme applicative vraiment efficace :

I was blown away when Facebook unveiled their apps strategy. I’ve felt for a long time that a highly leveraged online identity is key to the next generation of web applications. Everything from matchmaking to job hunting to discussion forums to shared calendaring requires a strong identity and detailed user profile, with much of the same data (often including a list of people I know) needed for each app. Web apps also need to be much easier to install with a more consistent user experience. Facebook apps do all of this, installing with a single click, piggybacking on your existing profile and integrating cleanly into a unified dashboard with a sidebar, minifeed, etc.

Matthew pousse la réflexion un peu plus loin et délivre, en creux, une vision de ce que pourrait devenir une application comme AllPeers à l'avenir : la même facilité pour plugger des applications sociales sur un socle commun, directement via un plugin Firefox.

The things that make Facebook apps cool will be so much cooler when they are available on the open web. I want all the zero-registration instant installability and harmonized user interface of Facebook apps, but with the ability to deploy my application on my own domain, in the programming language of my choice and without the permission and oversight of another company. I want to be able to contribute at the platform level. And I want much more inter-application integration (implying a common data model of some sort, something Facebook sorely lacks).

The race is on!