The announcement overnight of the "Facebook platform", F8, certainly looks like it will cement the site's increasingly strong position in social networking and bring outside developers under the wings of the site.
It's certainly a long-awaited move, and brings it up to speed with all the other widgetised sites like MySpace. But it also takes it further - this is a proper developer resource and they will be enabling people who use F8 to generate their own revenues without sharing them with the parent site. That's the way you grow this sort of business.
The buzz-driven tech news sphere seems to think it's the second coming. But at the moment, it's still just a way to build widgets. Let's see what people do with it first before we make a judgment.
