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Facebook has just opened up Facebook Developers, a site for developers wishing to use the Facebook platform in their applications. Facebook is a social networking application with college students as it’s core demographic (although it also has some high schools and companies in it’s database as well). With the release of this new API, you can now leverage Facebook on your own website, or anything else for that matter. This is a big deal, since one of the things that these social networks are criticized for (the ones where the whole point is just to make friends and converse, such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc) is the fact that they don’t have any API’s, they keep their systems closed. This makes Facebook the first application of this type to really open up their application, and I think it could potentially do wonders for them. They have sample applications using the API here (at the time of this posting the only one was FaceBank, an application for managing rent with roommates).

More here: Facebook Developers [via TechCrunch]