Facebook gives its members updates on what new features their friends are trying out, which allows applications to spread more quickly and cheaply than if they were available on a stand-alone Web site.
First, Facebook's news feed serves as a powerful distribution network that can cause applications to spread virally between friends at a rapid pace.
So it's not as though Rhapsody is failing to allow third party applications to spread its service; rather, the player itself seems to be a major sticking point.
It's easy to see why it became so popular – the application is designed to spread virally among Facebook friends, as you can invite online contacts to join you in a live video chat in a snap, through Facebook Chat, without the need for your friend to have the application installed.
Both open-loop and closed-loop applications are part of the roadmap, although data gathering and monitoring applications are expected to spread first.
To date, NGS-applications using MPI to spread the load over many compute nodes rather than just on many threads, have been scarce.
Until now, the only way to get your Treemo-hosted content distributed elsewhere on the Internet was to use RSS feeds, but the company has just released a set of embeddable widgets and a Facebook application that should help to spread this content much more effectively.
