Today in Social
Facebook seems to be building a desktop software team at its Seattle office. What might a Facebook desktop app be? A media player? More than one commenter thinks it could be browser. It used to be that browsers were a legitimate threat to real operating systems in terms of controlling the user interface and driving API adoption by developers. But browsers don’t matter much anymore, because the biggest platform contenders aren’t depending on them for UI or API distribution. While a browser could help smooth over some mobile platform fragmentation, I suspect something on that big screen in the living room might carry more disruptive clout.
