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Facebook Platform to go open source — but how open?

Updated with confirmation Facebook is about to make its third-party developer platform open source, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington. That could be a huge step toward breaking down the wall between Facebook and the rest of the web…

The Social Web  says…

Facebook to open source its developer platform?

While it's not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site.

The Inquisitr  says…

Social Networking Cold War: FB To Open Source Platform

Too little, too late? TechCrunch reports that Facebook is about to open source its platform as developers flee the service for the open source Google led Open Social initiative. Bebo already licenses access to the Facebook Platform so how it …

Industry Standard Breaking News  says…

Facebook Platform to go open source — but how open?

Updated with confirmation Facebook is about to make its third-party developer platform open source, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington. That could be a huge step toward breaking down... read more

Webware.com  says…

Facebook heading for the open (source) road?

Just when you thought the landscape of social-networking developer APIs couldn't get any more complicated, here comes another curveball. Facebook will reportedly open-source the code for its application platform, according to TechCrunch…

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim  says…

CONFIRMED: Facebook Platform to Go Open Source?

UPDATE: Facebook confirms that their developer platform will go open source: We’re working on an open-source initiative that is meant to help application developers better understand Facebook Platform and more easily build applications, whe…

OStatic blogs  says…

Facebook: Is it Going Open Source?

While nobody at Facebook is commenting on the rumor yet, TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook will turn the Facebook Platform into an open source project. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that he has heard confirmation from multiple so…

Searchviews  says…

Facebook Opens the Door to Open Source

Marc's Voice  says…

Glory to our dead soliders

Just about every country has had war ravage their youth so it’s on this Day - Memorial Day - that I dedicate this post not just to dead American soldiers - but to the young men and women round the world who have given their lives to their cou…

Social Media  says…

Facebook to open source its platform

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch: Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform. Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will…

Inside Facebook  says…

Facebook to Open Source the Platform? (Updated)

Facebook is likely to open-source the Facebook Platform APIs, FBML, FQL, and Javascript libraries soon, Techcrunch speculates this morning. Given the current “social platform wars” with Google, open sourcing Facebook Platform standards would …

Computerworld UK "Open..."  says…

Facebook and the Race to the Top

Once the race to open up begins among competitors, there is only one possible conclusion: total openness. Call it a race to the top, rather than a race to the bottom, since everyone gains. Here's the latest - and potentially highly important …

TechNet Blogs  says…

Facebook Going Open Source

According Techcrunch, Facebook will be open-sourcing the four major components of the FB Platform—namely, FMBL (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (Javascript library) and the Facebook API.   No mention yet of which license they wi…

Internetmarketing-News.de  says…

Facebook macht Facebook Platform zu Open Source

So nennt es zumindest Techcrunch. So ganz 100% kann man dass wohl nicht Open Source nennen … egal. In jedem Fall ist es ein interessanter Move von Facebook jetzt jedem die Möglichkeit zu geben die Facebook Platform zu integrieren. Würde es “O…

All Facebook  says…

Facebook Open Sourcing the Platform?

Mike Arrington is reporting that Facebook will soon announce that they are open sourcing the Facebook platform. This will enable other social network sites to easily integrate platform features. It will also help the large social network si…

Online Dating Insider  says…

Facebook Mega-Update

Data portability is a hot topic amongst the digerati these days. while reading about FacebookConnect. I’m all for being able to display and access your own information across multiple sites. TechCrunch says Facebook to Open Source Facebook Pl…

Sententia Profusum  says…

Social Networking Cold War: FB To Open Source Platform

Social Networking Cold War: FB To Open Source Platform: Too little, too late? TechCrunch reports that Facebook is about to open source its platform as developers flee the service for the open source Google led Open Social initiative. Bebo…

Silicon Alley Insider  says…

Confirmed: Facebook Going Open-Source

In the recent weeks we've seen Facebook take baby steps towards openness (as well as some backtracking). But TechCrunch reports, citing "multiple sources" that 'sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platfo…

The Rosemont Loving  says…

Loving Links

1. BBC News - YouTube law fight ‘threatens net’ The ongoing issue of copyright infringement on the web 2. Techcrunch - Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform Facebook’s application platform to go open source - a shrewd move by the company …

Rev2.org  says…

Facebook Counters OpenSocial, To Open Source Its Platform

Update: Facebook confirmed the initiative, named ‘fbOpen’. TechCrunch is reporting on multiple sources that are saying Facebook will open source its Platform sometime this week. Basically, this will mean that any social network will be able t…

Brij's One More Idea  says…

TechCrunch says Facebook to go Open Source!

I like the sound of it. I have been selling virtues of open source strategy for some time and I know it works. Facebook will have a convincing claim for leadership in emerging internet operating system if they let other developers run with s…

innonate  says…

I was right. Facebook is spun.

I. Told. You. So. I don’t mean this lightly. You just should have listened. For the past year, I’ve been consistent on my Facebook call: it’s been a short call and a call for change. Everything we’ve been seeing and will continue to see show …

TechSheep  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform  —  Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us.  The immediate eff…

MediaFile  says…

Another big weekend for Paramount Pix

Tip your fedora to Viacom’s Paramount Pictures. Summer’s not yet in full swing, but the studio already has two big hits, “Iron Man,” which has banked nearly $500 million worldwide and now “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” …

Bob Sutor's Open Blog  says…

Daily Links 05/27/2008

Jason Brooks - Office - Microsoft OOXML: Dead Format Walking “Since most Office users would be happy to continue using Microsoft’s old binary formats, and since those for whom open standards are important would probably prefer ODF or PDF fo…

Daily Marauder  says…

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA Yahoo has urged its shareholders to reject the slate of directors proposed by Carl Icahn, according to an SEC filing it did late on Friday. This is for Yahoo’s annual meeting, which was delayed and will …

Today @ PC World  says…

Will Facebook Go Open Source to Spite Google's Open Social Platform?

In what critics see as a response to Google's push to promote itsOpen Social platform, rumors have surfaced that Facebook will be making its application platform open source. Google originally launched Open Social a couple months ago as a com…

The Inquirer ES  says…

Facebook pronto será Open Source

La plataforma de redes sociales de Facebook podría convertirse en un proyecto de Código Abierto según múltiples fuentes, algo que permitiría, por ejemplo, que cualquier otra red social fuera inmediatamente compatible al 100% con Facebook y po…

Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha  says…

Who Will Fill Bill Gates' Shoes?

Erick Schonfeld submits: Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft (MSFT) to focus on his philanthropic foundation. More than any other single person, Gates defined the PC era. His products touch nearly every computer user on …

TomsTechBlog.com  says…

Blocking That Kick

There was a book published in the late 90s entitled "Barbarians Led By Bill Gates" which was a fairly bitter tale of how backwards one employee (co-author Marlin Eller) felt Microsoft was in the early days.  Unfortunately, the book suff…

Denken Über  says…

Facebook hace su plataforma Open Source y va por OpenSocial

Facebook F8, la plataforma de aplicaciones de esa red social, podría convertirse en Open Source de acuerdo a Michael Arrington y, ahora si, va a competir directamente contra OpenSocial. Para los que no lo recuerdan, la plataforma de Facebook …

TomsTechBlog.com  says…

Blocking That Kick

There was a book published in the late 90s entitled "Barbarians Led By Bill Gates" which was a fairly bitter tale of how backwards one employee (co-author Marlin Eller) felt Microsoft was in the early days.  Unfortunately, the book suff…

Jonathan MacDonald.com  says…

Facebook To Open Source Platform

Open Social? We’ll give you Open Social…. Facebook responds to the big G More »

Olaf Egner - Online Marketing, Web Services & Consulting  says…

The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its 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 le…

Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

According to this report, "Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us." Waiting. Seeing. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, May 27, 2008 [Tags: …

Site Toolkit  says…

Facebook heading for the open (source) road?

Just when you thought the landscape of social-networking developer APIs couldn’t get any more complicated, here comes another curveball. Facebook will reportedly open-source the code for its application platform, according to TechCrunch. …

202km.com  says…

The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its 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 le…

Bigmouthmedia search engine news: Main Headlines  says…

Facebook Platform to become Open Source.

Facebook, the social website currently leading the pack, is apparently going to turn its Facebook Developers platform Open Source in the following days according to an article published in TechCrunch.This initiative is surely tightly related…

Unbound Edition  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

Sometime soon, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, allowing any social network to become Facebook Platform...

202km.com  says…

Who Will Fill Bill Gates’ Shoes?

Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic foundation. More than any other single person, Gates defined the PC era. His products touch nearly every computer user on the planet. And he created w…

Sean Michael Kerner  says…

Facebook Going Open Source? Not Quite.

**UPDATED** From the 'read the fine print' files:If the rumor (and TechCrunch) are to be believed - Facebook is going Open Source. Kinda/sorta.The root of the leaked news is that the Facebook Platform which allows third-party developers to bu…

Digg / Tech Industry News  says…

Facebook To Go Open Source

Sources report that Facebook will open source its Platform this week.

dailytechnews.info  says…

Linkpost | 5.27.2008

• Windows chief talks ‘7′ — Tracking for a January 2010 release. • Microsoft IE 8 Beta 2 Coming! Are your websites ready? — Beta aimed at all consumers coming in the third quarter of this year. • Phone Giant in Germany Stirs a Furor — HP has …

dailytechnews.info  says…

Linkpost | 5.27.2008

• Windows chief talks ‘7′ — Tracking for a January 2010 release. • Microsoft IE 8 Beta 2 Coming! Are your websites ready? — Beta aimed at all consumers coming in the third quarter of this year. • Phone Giant in Germany Stirs a Furor — HP has …

dailytechnews.info  says…

Linkpost | 5.27.2008

• Windows chief talks ‘7′ — Tracking for a January 2010 release. • Microsoft IE 8 Beta 2 Coming! Are your websites ready? — Beta aimed at all consumers coming in the third quarter of this year. • Phone Giant in Germany Stirs a Furor — HP has …

Soft-Go.Com Blog  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible - …

ossblog  says…

Facebook pronta ad aprire il codice della sua piattaforma

Non vi è ancora nulla di ufficiale però, secondo quanto affermato nei giorni scorsi dal famoso blog di informazione Techcrunch, mancano ormai solo gli ultimi dettagli per il passaggio della famosa[...]

DosBit  says…

¿Facebook liberará sus códigos?

Según TechCrunch, un portavoz de Facebook ha confirmado que la creación de redes sociales tiene previsto anunciar su plataforma como Open Source, para pasar a competir directamente con Open Social. Si esto ocurre, cualquier red social pasaría…

Tweakers.net Mixed RSS Feed  says…

'Facebook Platform krijgt opensourcelicentie'

De Facebook Platform-api's zouden op korte termijn onder een opensourcelicentie beschikbaar worden gemaakt. Daarmee kunnen Facebook-toepassingen eenvoudiger in andere sociale-netwerksites verwerkt worden. Het opensource maken van Facebook P…

Der Schockwellenreiter (RSS-Feed)  says…

Freiheit statt Angst

Bundesweiter Aktionstag gegen Überwachung mit Handy-Kartenaktion: Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (AK Vorrat) veranstaltet am Samstag, den 31. Mai 2008 in vielen Städten einen Aktionstag gegen die ausufernde Überwachung durch Wirtsch…

Der Schockwellenreiter (RSS-Feed)  says…

Drupal Modules.Com

Hier werden  Drupal-Module vorgestellt, gesammelt, besprochen und bewertet. Außerdem gibt es einen Modul Finder, der einem helfen soll, das richtige Plug-In zu finden. Technorati-Tags: Drupal

Der Schockwellenreiter (RSS-Feed)  says…

Facebook Platform wird Open Source

Wie TechCrunch berichtet, soll die Facebook Platform in den nächsten Tagen als Open Source veröffentlicht werden. Dabei werden sowohl FMBL (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (Javascript library) als auch die Facebook API verfügbar g…

Der Schockwellenreiter (RSS-Feed)  says…

Noch einmal zurück in die UdSSR

Im Film Heartbreakers ­ Achtung: Scharfe Kurven! aus dem Jahre 2001 singt die Alien-Heldin  Sigourney Weaver eine besonders seltsame Version des Beatles-Klassikers: [Video]  Der Film selber ist eine eher belanglose Komödie, die man nicht…

Latest News from JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL  says…

Facebook Platform To Be Open Sourced

'This is a nearly inevitable response to Open Social, which is backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo,' noted Michael Arrington today as he predicted that 'Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into …

Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA  says…

Facebook Platform To Be Open Sourced

'This is a nearly inevitable response to Open Social, which is backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo,' noted Michael Arrington today as he predicted that 'Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into …

Highest Rated Posts on Searchles  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible -…

adamconner7  says…

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform