Facebook Data Store API thoughts

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On Monday,
[Facebook](http://facebook.com/) employee
[Haiping Zhao](http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=haiping+zhao&n=50431648)
quietly published a
[Data Store API](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Data_Store_API_documentation)
on the
[Facebook developer wiki](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/).

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...](/space/facebook data store api thoughts)