Facebook appears to be trying to gain some ground against Google’s as-yet-unreleased OpenSocial effort by opening up its developer platform for other sites to use.
The F8 platform started as a set of APIs that other sites could use to create widgets — of which there are now about a million (two or three of which are actually useful) — but the social network appears to be doing already.
Where does this put Facebook as far as OpenSocial goes? On the have in mind with OpenSocial: a single set of standards that application developers can use so that widgets or apps run on different networks and data can flow from one to the other and back again (Chris Messina is coming at the same idea from just a proxy for the war between Google and Microsoft).
Nick O’Neill of All Facebook puts it, the social-platform wars are on. And hey, don’t forget about Friendster either — they have Comments
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