Welcome!

Open Source Authors: Liz McMillan, Maureen O'Gara, RealWire News Distribution, Jeremy Geelan, Reuven Cohen

Related Topics: Open Source, Open Web

Open Source: Article

Facebook To Open Source Platform

Facebook Is Calling the Effort fbOpen - Claiming That the Effort Will Make It Easier for Developers to Build Applications On It
By Maureen O'Gara
Article Rating:
May 30, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
Reads:
 3,205

Facebook, the social networking site that Microsoft owns a pricey sliver of, says it’s going to open source its year-old Facebook Platform so it’s easier for developers to build applications on it.

It’s reportedly calling the effort fbOpen and the move puts it on a collision course with the Google OpenSocial initiative that MySpace, Yahoo and now AOL back so third-party applications can access the sites’ data.

TechCrunch, which broke the story, expects Facebook to open source the FMBL markup language, the FQL query language, the FJS JavaScript library and the Facebook API.

Published May 30, 2008 – Reads 3,205
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Maureen O'Gara

Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

Comments (0)

Share your thoughts on this story.

Add your comment
You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.