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Facebook Platform Now Open Source
By Reshma Kumar at June 02, 2008 0 Comments
Facebook announced today that it will be opening up its code. Dubbed Facebook Open Platform or fbOpen, this move is viewed as being in direct competition to Google’s OpenSocial which is also an open source development platform for creating social apps.
“The goal of this release is to help you as developers better understand Facebook Platform as a whole and more easily build applications, whether it’s by running your own test servers, building tools, or optimizing your applications on this technology. We’ve built in extensibility points, so you can add functionality to Facebook Open Platform like your own tags and API methods.” says Ami Vora, Senior Platform Manager, Facebook. The release is licensed under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) and the rest of the code is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
Facebook has over 24,000 applications built on its platform, over 400,000 developers building new social apps, and about 140 applications added to their directory per day.
Labels: Facebook, google, open social, Open Source, social media
