This week, it’s Businessweek that gets the facts wrong.

In an article about Google opening up Orkut to developers,  Olga Kharif places heavy emphasis on the fact that Google will allow developers to host applications on their own sites, which is an “easier restriction” (let’s not try to parse that mangled phrase, at the moment). Kharif’s premise is, simply, incorrect- Facebook allows developers to host applications wherever they like.

For once, we’ll plug our own services in this space. Errors like these show that journalists and companies need to rely on people who know the space better than anyone else. Just as a reporter covering Google shouldn’t be asking IBM about how search works, if you need Facebook knowledge, you should ask the people who develop. Not the people who have read the same inaccurate articles that came a week before.