Facebook Mirror

Vishu Gupta of facebook this morning (early morning) made an announcement that facebook will be releasing a cross-application API.  In Vishu’s words “This API will help applications focus on their core functionality by taking on some work that, while important, is not central to the application’s mission. […] With the permissions API, an application can authorize another application to call certain API methods on its behalf.”  The API is still in beta form, but the overall concept has been received well by developers.  It will be interesting to see how this progresses.