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Facebook on Friday announced yet another feature that could allow the developers of Facebook Apps, to take it possibly to the next level by allowing them to create Apps that would work on any website out there. All this is done through a simple JavaScript library that the developers could use to display their apps on other website’s.

Here is what Wei Zhu of Facebook had to say about the new library

Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any web site that serves static HTML. An application that uses this client library should be registered as an iframe type. This applies to either iframe Facebook apps that users access through the Facebook web site or apps that users access directly on the app’s own web sites. Almost all Facebook APIs are supported.

I have to say, that this really is a good move considering the popularity that the Facebook Apps have. If the developers could take it beyond Facebook and leverage the power of the Open Web, then it means a big win for Mark Zuckerberg and team.

Well this announcement has its own share of privacy concerns as well. The most important thing is that Facebook now have a way from which they can collect even more data about its users and what they do on the web, by using the power of cookies.

Facebook is definitely trying to be a Internet major here, and is trying to muscle up its power to control the web. Looking from another perspective though shows Facebook trying to unleash the potential of the Web. By allowing developers to build more and more applications for the open web, Facebook now has a way to add more and more new members into its service, while retaining control over the millions of relationships that other users of Facebook have aka the Social Graph.

But this announcement can possibly be a game changer and by becoming a application host. This move would surely make other competitors think about become app hosts themselves, by opening up their platforms for developers to use and build apps that would run anywhere on the Web.