[omk]

I’d be a bit sceptical about this news item. The project seems to be in a real early stage and could even be shelved before it sees the day.

However, if it has to find its way out of Facebook’s garage and succeed; it will have to be an incredible feat of engineering to meet customer expectations. If the product decisions are driven purely from a data collection point of view, the success rate will be real low.

[kacy]

If it's at the stage where they're talking to partners, and it's expected to ship in less than a year, I'd argue that those are pretty clear indications that this isn't a skunkworks project that will be shelved.