Facebook moves to open source platform

According to TechCrunch , very soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will open its platform and become an open source social network. In recent months, the situation has been tense to the limit, if Facebook went to an open confrontation with Google and simply banned their Friend Connect project.

The meaning of the openness of the platform is obvious. To date, almost all the major players are involved in varying degrees in this game. Open Social has united Google, MySpace and Yahoo. And the only one who resisted was Facebook, despite the collaboration with Bebo.

On Monday, a link to www.beta.facebook.com appeared on the Facebook blog. According to the record, it says that this is somehow related to collaboration with developers, and the site is open to everyone, but you need to register again to have access to information. What I am doing at the moment.
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As for the Facebook platform itself and its transition to open-source, the main technical elements in open access are expected: FBML (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (JavaScript library), and this means that the Facebook API will be fully open.

If you are interested in technical issues, then go to the Facebook documentation and the Open Source Projects .

via The Social Trend