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Facebook Quietly Offers Storage to Developers
Lucas123 writes "Facebook has quietly started offering beta testers access to the latest version of a new storage service, according to Computerworld's Brian Fonseca. The wiki does warn users that the page is still in development and that users should make sure that data used in testing the service is properly backed up. Nick O'Neill, creator of the blogsite AllFacebook.com, said it would be "revolutionary" if the service is free."
...and slashdot quietly announces it to the world.
Facebook Quietly Offers Storage to Developers
isn't any announcement made in text format, by definition, quiet?
I mean, unless you're using the Sam Kinison text-to-speech plugin for firefox.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
TFA doesn't really reflect what the new API is meant to do. Having done some work on Facebook applications, one of the major issues that tends to come up is the storage of user data. Previously, you would need to store any information you needed in your own database. For significantly popular applications, this presents a major load issue. With the new API, it looks like developing applications with a high level of persistent information should be simpler, and require less load on the applications server.
I'd also strongly suspect that Facebook would crack down hard on anyone trying to use this API to store large quantities of data.