API and Other Platform Product Changes

Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by dasil003 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:44PM (#16878124)

Time to circle the wagons and protect the core business. Collecting information and selling ads is their bread and butter. Giving third parties access to that data in order to build things gave them great marginal gains on their way to the top (sort of like Twitter), but in the current political climate the risks far outweigh whatever incremental gains they could realize going forward.

Don't expect the API back any time soon.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by reaperducer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:21PM (#16878557)

>Giving third parties access to that data in order to build things gave them great marginal gains on their way to the top

Without Pieces of Flair and Farmville, Facebook would be MySpace.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by JetSpiegel on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:47PM (#16878836)

That was when Facebook was growing. They are the incumbent now, time to kick the ladder.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by reaperducer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:30PM (#16879255)

> That was when Facebook was growing

Yes. Since I was replying to a comment which included the phrase "on their way to the top."

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by dang on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:19PM (#16878525)

Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially on divisive topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by chinathrow on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:01PM (#16878317)

Why do they have access?

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by badloginagain on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:03PM (#16878330)

Because they'll pay for it

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by Anderkent on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:09PM (#16878406)

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what Palantir does. It builds tools for data analysis, it doesn't gather data themselves. Anyone who has done the most basic research on the company (like watching the youtube demos) would know that.

Palantir clients maybe could still have access, if they pay for it; I probably can't convince you that we don't build tools that interact with Facebook.

Disclaimer: I work at Palantir.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by chinathrow on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:08PM (#16878394)

Now I'm interested. I didn't know that you can pay for access to FB data - any pointers?

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by kridsdale1 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:13PM (#16878449)

It’s bullshit.

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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by amluto on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:09PM (#16878404)

I don’t think Palantir is in the direct data gathering business at all.

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