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Technology Industry Facebook picks up Parakey and its 'web OS' | Facebook picks up Parakey and its 'web OS' |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 23 July 2007 | |
  
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Ross and Hewett will work on Facebook Platform, which allows developers to create applications that take advantage of relationships between Facebook users, just as Salesforce.com allows outside developers to leverage its CRM data. Facebook Platform was announced in May this year. Presumably, the concepts the pair were developing at Parakey will be incorporated into Facebook Platform. "The work they’ve done with Firefox and Parakey and their approach to building products fit right in at Facebook," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. "Facebook Platform is finally making it easy to share experiences with friends and family over the web, a goal Joe and I have worked toward for years," said Ross. No financial details of the acquisition - Facebook's first - were disclosed. |
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