Earlier this month, Facebook announced "Facebook Connect", which would allow you to sync Facebook accounts with other websites, such as Digg. With these developments came hinting that social networking was in for a change. Facebook has plans to veer away from being a normal standalone site.Facebook hopes to bring it's application platform into open-source. Many other social networking websites are using "OpenSocial", a platform that any social networking site can use. Facebook has been one of the only networking websites that have disregarded open source.
But the question remains, especially given the scant detail of the latest rumor, about whether "open source" means truly open source or some variety of "extensible." Facebook has been redefining a whole lot of what we think about the Web, so this may be no exception.
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Way to go!
Well thats a start although they need to beef up their mobile platform. It was nice and clean before applications started creeping onto that too.
Mysql is evolving to close-source, and in PHP i don't find any noticeable change proposed by Facebook.
This is just what I've been told.
Mysql is evolving to close-source, and in PHP i don't find any noticeable change proposed by Facebook.
Mysql is not evolving to closed source.
Sun released a statement saying it would develop a few extra tools for Mysql, and those tools would be closed source. Of course, some people started screaming they'd close the Mysql source.
Mysql is evolving to close-source, and in PHP i don't find any noticeable change proposed by Facebook.
AFAIK, Facebook have been working with Zend and some extension authors on caching/clustering techs.
"Facebook hopes to bring it is application..."
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