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“The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform” |
It is true: Facebook opens the source code of his platform.
A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow. We originally broke this story we broke yesterday. We’ve also learned from another source that the name of the initiative will be fbOpen.
Via: The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform
This puts high pressure on the OpenSocial initiative, because now there is a free and open implementation for a (de-facto-)standard available. Yes, OpenSocial is an open standard, but fbOpen will be a standard which costs you at least nothing to implement because the implementation is open. Facebook takes another step towards the leading consumer-oriented PaaS-Provider. If you ever wondered why Facebook is valued this high – now you have the answer. Becoming a technology standard, makes you valuable and indispensable. Think about this: in the future every web application will have a social networking feature, because it is natural for humans to work together or to spend their free time with friends. So social networking will become a matter of course and fbOpen will perhaps become the standard for social networking and so the standard for nearly every web application … uuuh.
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