These days, it seems fair to ask where Facebook hasn't extended its reach. Certainly not gadgets, as
The Wall
Street Journal reports from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "Companies are showing products from cameras to video-game consoles that integrate Facebook into their core functions,"
writes The Journal. "They allow people to log in to the service from the gadgets and bring in and send out information about themselves and their friends, as well as their photos." Getting into
gadgets is part of Facebook's broader open platform strategy, which the top social network has been building since 2007, and which encourage Web sites, apps and various services to share information
with Facebook. The platform, Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor tells The Journal, is designed to be the "core of the Facebook experience." Indeed, "There's a big disparity between the
really deep social interactions we have in the physical world and what is going on online and with consumer electronics."