]> snarfed.org draw group stream of consciousness Ryan Barrett <snarfed at ryanb dot org> en text/html Copyright 2002-2007 Ryan Barrett Facebook Data Store API thoughts Ryan Barrett <snarfed at ryanb dot org> 2007-08-09T21:59:00Z en text/html Copyright 2002-2007 Ryan Barrett

On Monday, Facebook employee Haiping Zhao quietly published a Data Store API on the Facebook developer wiki.

It's preliminary, and still in closed beta, but it marks a milestone in the evolution of the Facebook platform. It could be an indication of the direction Facebook plans to take the platform in the future.

I've posted some of my initial thoughts...