Bebo's platform announcement sheds light on Facebook's latest plans: making their platform available to other social networks. This is a direct hit against Open Social, and effectively draws a line in the sand. This also means that Facebook has hopes of creating its own camp of sorts, where other social networks can use Facebook standards for their platform offering. The best part of it all? It's great for developers, at least from a theoretical perspective. Competition breeds options, and that's exactly what's emerging from Facebook's own announcement today, according to its developer wiki.
This makes the compatibility and availability for a two-way street between other networks and Facebook a possibility. Will a marketplace come next, where networks can also choose which completed applications they'd like to include in their platform can be done in the same manner an application is added to a network?