Session
The Story Behind Facebook's APIs: From REST to FQL
Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager, Facebook
Ari Steinberg, Software Engineer, Facebook
Track: Web 2.0 Services and Platforms
Date: Monday, April 16
Time: 1:30pm
- 2:20pm
Location: 2022
Members of Facebook's platform team discuss how they made the initial decision to be the first large social network to offer an API, what data to show, and how they constructed it. The team will also explain what trends they were seeing that triggered them to create FQL (a new SQL-like API to Facebook).
Co-presented by CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media, Inc.
©2007, CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media, Inc.
©2007, CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media, Inc.
