This is great news for those that want to give their app a try without too much costs, it will also solve the potential scalability issues for some apps that might have unexpected growth rates. Although, I doubt any new application would experience what iLike did at the beginning.
Its also interesting, since for developers the hosting issues was one of the major advantages of OpenSocial to FB which is now solved.
Although this is not that important of a news but theoretically it could potentially change FB as a platform. As Marc Andreessen introduced his views on platforms and categorized FB as a level two platform which is a plug-in API. One of the disadvantages of this platform was the cost on the developer in terms of bandwidth and hosting of their applications. This problem was solved in the ultimate platform which is the level three. So maybe in Mark's definition, FB is now getting somewhat closer to a 2.5 platform! http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-three-kinds.html
Its also interesting, since for developers the hosting issues was one of the major advantages of OpenSocial to FB which is now solved.
Although this is not that important of a news but theoretically it could potentially change FB as a platform. As Marc Andreessen introduced his views on platforms and categorized FB as a level two platform which is a plug-in API. One of the disadvantages of this platform was the cost on the developer in terms of bandwidth and hosting of their applications. This problem was solved in the ultimate platform which is the level three. So maybe in Mark's definition, FB is now getting somewhat closer to a 2.5 platform! http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-three-kinds.html