Facebook moves to open source platform

According to TechCrunch , very soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will open its platform and turn into an open source social network. In recent months, the situation has been heated 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. Today, almost all the major players participate to some extent in this game. Open Social merged Google, MySpace and Yahoo. And the only one who resisted was Facebook, despite collaborating with Bebo.

As early as Monday, a link to www.beta.facebook.com appeared on the Facebook blog., according to the record, it says that it is somehow connected with joint work with developers, and the site is open to everyone, but you need to re-register in order to have access to information, which I am doing at the moment.

As for the Facebook platform itself and its transition to open-source, the appearance of the main technical elements in open access is expected: FBML (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (JavaScript library), and this means that the Facebook API will completely open.

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

via The Social Trend