Data Storage on Facebook? That might be a fix for painfully SLOW refreshing.

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, is that all there is out there? No but it certainly is a force to deal with. I'm a member of the Halifax Network with a membership that is growing exponentially. When I first joined way back in April of this year there were 89,000 members in the Halifax Network, the last time I noticed the total had surpassed the 160,000 mark with no indication that its growth was slowing.

The growth of members PLUS the explosion of applications all requiring off server processing has slowed the experience to a crawl. Now to be clear I'm sitting on a racer of a computer with gobs of ram and I've got ultra high speed internet (consistently well over T1 speed) but there are times I can get up and go get a coffee - upstairs and around the back of the house, come back down and the sight is just finishing refreshing.

If making data storage available to developers speeds up the Facebook experience, then whats the hold up... get it on line now.

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Written by Josh Catone / September 17, 2007 / 0 comments Rev2.org is reporting that buried deep in the Facebook Developer wiki is mention of a Data Store API hinting at Facebook's possible intention of offering data storage to app developers. The wiki page was updated this morning to announce that the service is now in open beta and is accessible by any application (any app developers out there want to shed more light on this one?). Just this afternoon I wrote about platform definitions floated by Marc Andreessen, who called Facebook a level 2 platform -- or a "plug in API." It seems like Facebook might be transitioning into what Andreessen would call a level 3 platform -- one that "handles everything required to run your application on your behalf." Facebook to Offer Data Storage?