My stream, your stream, now it's everybody's stream

What better news than Subway's foot long for $5? How about Facebook opening up it's activity stream for external developers. Now that's quite a mouth full!


The stream is all the updates that take up the middle of your facebook page. It shows you all the posts from your friends in real-time. This keeps you up to date on everything that's happening. And now other apps and websites can utilize it too.

What's going to be interesting to see how the stream is utilized. The Facebook Open Stream API allows websites to "access the stream on behalf of a user and then filter, remix, and display the stream back to that user however you choose, wherever you choose, in the manner most relevant for the user experience. Other new API methods will allow users to both publish into the stream and to add comments and "likes" to posts in the stream." It's got some other pretty interesting features so make sure to check out the full article at:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163898/facebook_opens_up_activity_stream_to_external_developers.html

or

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php