It’s been a while since I last posted anything about Facebook. There has been a lot going on in the news about it, mostly concerning privacy issues, rumors, and about who bought a stake in the company and for how many zillion dollars… This time the news is Facebook released a JavaScript client library to the public a couple of days ago. This in itself is interesting, although the Facebook API has already been in use for a while, allowing the same thing only through server-side programming (for example in PHP). The news appeared on numerous sites, but I came across this post on AllFacebook which spawned an interesting discussion about the new library. Basically, the client library offers nothing particularly new, other than Facebook can now be queried using client side scripting only which will make life easier for those who want to have less server side coding.

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