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

May. 30, 2008 12:15 PM

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 2,413
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Maureen O'Gara is the 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.

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