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Facebook Opens Up Platform
By Reshma Kumar at December 13, 2007 0 Comments
In response the Google’s OpenSocial API which just launched with a splash at the beginning of November, and amidst a lot of critisicm of Facebook’s ‘closed’ platform, Facebook announced yesterday that it is opening up its platform to make it available to other social networking sites. It is licensing its technology so that Facebook apps can run on other social networking sites other than Facebook. There are apparently 100,000 developers currently building Facebook applications who can now potentially make their applications available on other social sites. Facebook apps are built using proprietary FBML markup.
And in support of this move, social network Bebo which rivals MySpace and Facebook also announced that it will be the first social network to license Facebook’s technology thereby, allowing developers to extend Facebook’s apps to Bebo. Facebook has faced a lot of criticism of late of its controversial social advertising campaign using beacons to track users and display their personal information publicly. This appears to be a move in the right direction for the company, however late and reactionary.
Labels: Facebook, google, opensocial
