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hi5 Networks Releases 0.8 OpenSocial Standard

Social networking site hi5 Networks has just announced its delivery of the OpenSocial 0.8 standard, including a collection of RESTful APIs for building social applications across the web. OpenSocial--a set of common APIs for online social network applications developed by Google and several other social networks--has historically had its roots in JavaScript. The new RESTful APIs from hi5 are targeted to allow developers to choose their own development languages for their applications. Will this get a positive response?


Facebook Opens Up "a Significant Part" of its Platform

As we wrote last week (after initial reports came out on TechCrunch), Facebook is open sourcing what it calls a significant part of its Facebook Platform. What does a significant part mean? According to the company it means most of the code that runs Facebook Platform plus implementations of many of the most-used methods and tags. Especially for many developers who want to build social applications, this looks like good news, but OStatic readers wrote in last week questioning whether Facebook is really going open source (see the comments in the link above). Is it?


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 sources that the year-old platform will go open source, and that application developers will easily be able to migrate their Facebook applications to other social networks. If the rumor pans out, this could be good news for open source. UPDATE: Soon after this post went up, TechCrunch reported that Facebook confirmed this story as correct.