Yesterday, Facebook announced that it’s developer platform would become open source. Since Blueye has been gradually becoming more involved in Facebook application development, this is interesting news for us. Developing an application for Facebook no longer means the application can only sit in Facebook world. Building for one Facebook now means porting your application over to other social networks with minimal effort.

It’s definitely nice of Facebook to finally open source its super popular development platform…but it would be even nicer if they either mirrored Open Social or integrated with it in some way. Facebook has been playing in its own sandbox for some time now and its nice of them to come out and play with the rest of us. They seem to be slowly opening the shades. Come on Facebook…open is better.

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