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 Platform into an open source project.'* (see bottom of post)
What will this mean? Well, it could mean that any social network would be able to become compatible with Facebook's proprietary platform. So developers could run their Facebook application across all t....
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