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Facebook opens up with new Open Stream API

By | April 27, 2009, 10:29am PDT

Summary: Facebook historically has been the social network known for bringing lots of information in but rarely letting information out. Today, the company announced a new Open Stream API that will allow developers access the home page and profile streams. This will allow home page feed and user profile data to be fed into aggregation sites [...]

Facebook historically has been the social network known for bringing lots of information in but rarely letting information out. Today, the company announced a new Open Stream API that will allow developers access the home page and profile streams. This will allow home page feed and user profile data to be fed into aggregation sites such as FriendFeed or even Adobe Air applications such as TweetDeck and mobile devices.

According to developer Justin Bishop’s blog post:

To make this work, we released new technology for developers so they can offer this option to you on other websites and applications. We work closely with third-party developers to enable intriguing and meaningful experiences both on and off Facebook.com. Since we launched Facebook Platform in 2007, developers have created 10s of thousands of applications to help you connect and share with your friends in interesting ways — whether by playing a social game, discovering new books or creating group greeting cards.

This is a big move for Facebook, which as I mentioned, historically kept a tight grip on it’s information in order to drive users into Facebook to create more visibility for its social ads. Bishop’s blog post indicates that there will be more ways to share information via more Web sites in the future.

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Jennifer Leggio, aka "Mediaphyter," writes about the "social business" side of social media - including enterprise, security and reputation issues.

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Jennifer is employed full-time with Fortinet, a leading network security appliance vendor. She is also actively involved in the network security community and works with the Security Bloggers Network. She co-manages the annual Security Bloggers Meet-UP at RSA Conference.

Jennifer is also involved with Silicon Valley Tweet-Up, a philanthropic networking event that brings people together to raise money for local family-oriented charities.

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Jennifer Leggio

Jennifer Leggio (@mediaphyter) has been a communications professional for more than 15 years, focusing primarily on enterprise technology and security. She is currently the director of strategic communications for a leading network security vendor. Jennifer is also passionate about all things social media, especially enterprise, security, privacy and reputation issues, which is why she writes about these things for ZDNet.

A well-connected communicator, Jennifer has led or supported interactive social networking efforts for security industry conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat USA and SOURCE Conference, and founded the Security Twits, a community for network security professionals. She also helps run communications for the Security Bloggers Network.

Finally, Jennifer co-hosts the Quick'n'Dirty social media podcast with Aaron Strout, is a founding member of Technically Women, a communal blog project, and manages marketing and public relations for Silicon Valley Tweet-Up, a networking group that raises money for family-oriented charities. Jennifer was profiled in Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal's "40 Under 40" edition, as a rising star for 2009.

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Maarek Stele 27th Apr 2009
looks like Twitter is gaining ground and Facebook needs to open it's chat option to the public. That's the thing with Twitter, you can easily access the data anywhere w/ their simple API, now Facebook needs to do the same with their similar "what are you doing" option and chat.
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