As Mashable and AllFacebook have already reported, Facebook announced today that they are “open-sourcing” a significant portion of their platform, now called: Facebook Open Platform.
What do you get when you download the open source platform?
This release includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags. We’ve included samples and some dummy data to help you get started fast.
Facebook Open Platform also has extensibility points built in so you can add your own functionality, such as your own FBML tags, API methods, etc.
Not too shabby.
Social networks seem poised to take over a significant share of the browser in the way that only search has managed to do so far. The fact that Facebook thrives without letting Google index the majority of its content is FAR more important than in seems at first.
Google holds a lot of power, and it is far from infallible, which can be kind of problematic for any business online.
Facebook wants to own the social networking platform the way Google owns the search platform. And so does Google. And so does MySpace.
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