Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Do they even know what ‘Beta’ means?

I have had it with these people. Seriously, of all the software in the world that can be classified as Beta, the last thing you’d expect is a movie rental service who probably bought off the shelf code and hacked it a little to use it. But hell, they dont care anymore, as far as they’re concerned, its a fashion statement to use unstable software in a public release!

Facebook Opens Up Platform: fbOpen

Here it is, many considered it inevitable after OpenSocial, and Facebook have responded by opening up their own platform. Even though the OpenSocial adopters are sticking with Google for now, I think fbOpen will catch on eventually, at least I find it the easiest platform to develop for.

The fb-open-platform.tar.gz archive contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform — including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and FQL (Facebook Query Language) — in your own environment. It also contains libfbml-1.2.0.tar.gz, which contains the essential libraries for parsing and rendering FBML.

Download fbOpen