Facebook has made their first acquisition by buying Parakey, a Web-based computer interface which is being developed by the co-founders of Firefox. Parakey is described as “a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.” Ross, one of the co-founders, explains that if you want to write in your blog or post to Flickr you first have to launch Blogger or transfer and upload the image from your camera. The system is designed to simplify this process which could effectively disintermediate a desktop based operating system.

As if Microsoft doesn’t already have Google to worry about, it seems that Facebook’s move could attack the software giant’s core business. As the social network sails past 30 million users while adding new applications everyday, the possibility of Facebook becoming a new computing platform is becoming more real.