Facebook to take over the web

Hey Mark, what are we doing tonight?

Mark Zuckerburg has it all. He has money. He has a super successful site. He has an island with dinosaurs, lasers and a volcano full of soda.

Now he wants the web!

It’s thought that in April at a developers conference Facebook will announce big plans for off the site.

Yes, they want to make every page on the web more like Facebook.

The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.

Facebook also provides the following “details”:

The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page. Once implemented, developers can include a number of Facebook Widgets, like the Fan Box, or leverage any API, which enable the transformation of any Web page so it functions similar to a Facebook Page.

For example, AwesomeTees might decide that strategically they would like to locate their brand identity at www.awesometees.com. AwesomeTees will install the Fan Box widget, which will allow any Facebook user to “Become a Fan” of AwesomeTees, thereby establishing an official connection to AwesomeTees. The user will then have AwesomeTees listed in their list of connections on their profile as Pages are represented today. Additionally, any content that AwesomeTees publishes on AwesomeTees.com will show up in the stream on Facebook like it normally would. And, any time the user searches on Facebook, AwesomeTees will show up in the typeaheads and prominently in search results.

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Obviously this will be a huge step for Facebook growth. It’ll also be handy for those not so net savvy to be able to take baby steps away from social networks and check out the wonders the web has to offer.