A trusted source tells me that the online social networking site Facebook plans to open its tightly controlled site to outside widgets, allowing users to embed outside audio, video, and other content onto their profile pages for the first time. Ironically, this move comes just as MySpace tightens up its widget policies, meaning that the two sites could come to resemble each other a lot more than they do now.
In the early days of the site, you had to be a student in order to use Facebook. The company has since loosened that restriction, but still maintains tight control over the layout of user pages. Essentially, each profile page looks like the next. Expect that to change over the coming months, however, as Facebook allows third-party embedded content and grants users more design options.
