Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us.
In his post from this tuesday, may 27th he further informs that
Bebo already licenses the Facebook Platform, which allows third parties to make their Facebook applications work on Bebo, too. With the new announcement, social networks won’t need to go through the hassle of doing a deal with Facebook. They’ll simply map their existing APIs to Facebook Platform (which isn’t trivial) and go. Expect to see the four major technical pieces of Facebook Platform - FMBL (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (Javascript library) and the Facebook API to be open sourced and made available to anyone.
This is clearly the answer to fight Google-promoted OpenSocial initiative. We'll see if this will be a similar war as it was deliberated in the mid-late 90's when Microsoft -Behind Facebook as shareholder as you may know - introduced Internet explorer to fight the Netscape Web browser. what seems to be clear that the leading Social Network Services MySpace and Facebook will go on fighting for leadership.
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