Social SQL with FQL: the Facebook Query Language

"FQL" - this is cool stuff!

ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » Social SQL with FQL: the Facebook Query Language: "SQL is going social with Facebook’s newly announced data access mechanism the Facebook Query Language. What is it? From their site:

Last week we released a whole new version of Platform. On the surface it may look similar to the old version, but under the hood it is a totally new implementation. And, starting today you can enjoy the benefits of that new implementation by getting direct access to a more powerful, flexible way of accessing Facebook data - a query language we call FQL…

FQL is a way to query the same Facebook data you can access through the other API functions, but with a SQL-style interface. In fact, many of the normal API calls are simple wrappers for FQL queries. All of the usual privacy checks are still applied. A typical query looks something like this:
SELECT name, pic FROM user WHERE uid=211031 OR uid=4801660 "