Facebook to go Open Source

Facebook’s current application is about 1 year old and its set to go open source sometime soon.
It opens a large door for application developers who have developed for the facebook application, because it lets any social network become Facebook Platform compatible.

I have yet to develop anything for facebook, but I think it could rapidly increase the amount of widgets, plugins add-ons, etc that you will see on facebook and sites that start using their platform. (as if there were not a lot)

Source: Tech Crunch