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Still, Facebook has already had to step in and curb the behavior of some applications which, designed with self-promotion features intended to spur their adoption, annoyed users with unsolicited e-mails and intrusive message displays.
However, Zuckerberg said Facebook isn't interested in "yanking" popular applications so that it can build them itself.
Zuckerberg said it may take many years for the Facebook platform to reach a level of maturity, and in the meantime, the company will work hard to continually improve and refine it.
However, when pressed to provide a timetable for when Facebook might do this, Zuckerberg refrained from making a deadline commitment. "I don't know," he said.
While Facebook has to reserve the right to build whatever application it deems core to its social network, it doesn't plan to trample on its developers and steal their thunder.
"It's the users' data. We want to [make it portable]. That's the goal," he said during a keynote speech in which he fielded questions from moderator and conference chair John Battelle and attendees.
That Facebook doesn't let them do this today is "a flaw in the system" and something the company wants to fix, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Because Facebook chose to open up the platform at an early stage of its development, instead of refining the program internally for several years, the company is learning as it goes along, he said.
"It wouldn't be good for us if we did that,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," he said.
"How's the financing going?" Battelle asked him. "Very well. We're almost all wrapped up," Zuckerberg answered, declining further comment.
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The massive response from outside developers who have built,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, to date, about 6,000 applications for Facebook has been "incredibly humbling,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," he said.
Facebook wants to make the data its members enter into the social network's profiles portable so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company's CEO said Wednesday.
Opened to external developers in May, the platform is seen by many as containing well-designed tools and offering developers generous revenue opportunities,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, despite the terms of service language that Battelle highlighted and that has concerned developers who are investing time and money in creating Facebook applications.
He remained tight-lipped when asked about rumors that the company is in the latter stages of securing financing from a major Internet company, such as Google or Microsoft.
Facebook will likely more than double its staff of 300 to about 700 in the coming year, growth that Zuckerberg acknowledged is intense. Many of the new hires are referred by employees,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, he said.
That is partly the reason why the wording on the terms of service for developers may be read as giving too much power to Facebook over the third-party applications on its platform.