Facebook open sources application platform
Posted on May 28, 2008 by Chris DeBrusk
Facebook is getting ready to open source its year old application platform. What this means is that other social networks will be able to host the same applications that are all the rage on Facebook without building their own application platforms.
I honestly can’t decide whether this is a momentus occurrence or a non-event. I guess we’ll have to see whether all the applications that have been written for Facebook migrate onto other social networking sites and what the resulting network effect is. My gut is that some of the popular ones will migrate to some of the other major social networks but most will not.
I’m voting for “non-event”. I understand why the applications drive a lot of traffic and page views on the site, but don’t see the value to Facebook to allowing other social networks to leverage this resource. Perhaps they have a strategy I haven’t figure out yet or maybe it is a knee-jerk reaction to OpenSocial. This will be worth watching.
Thanks to Techcrunch for the heads up.
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