Anyone who is on Facebook knows that new apps are being built and distributed throughout the network at a pretty frenzied place. Anytime we log in to our Facebook page it is loaded with friends who are trying out and reccommending new apps. This started when Facebook opened up their platform to developers. Now any developer could build a facebook app and hope it spread widely. A new buzzword was born: Openness.
BusinessWeek today had a great article on Yahoo’s response to this new trend of openess and what they are planning to do in the future following this new principle.
Will this start a battle to see who can open up their platform and source code the most?
