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Facebook open streams, takes down walled garden

By | April 27, 2009, 9:31am PDT

Summary: tweetmeme_url =’http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=533′; tweetmeme_source = ‘mager’; Facebook has always been known as a walled garden of social data. Until today, the only data you could access was the status updates of the user, and a few other things. Now, you can access the main bloodline of what makes [...]


Facebook has always been known as a walled garden of social data. Until today, the only data you could access was the status updates of the user, and a few other things.

Now, you can access the main bloodline of what makes Facebook cool: the activity stream (Techmeme). The opening up of the news feed and mini feed data is a wonderful accomplisment.



Mobile, web, and desktop applications can now feed in the Facebook feed. And you will be able to update it from outside Facebook too.

I’m excited to see applications evolve. Popular Twitter desktop client Seesmic has already gotten full support for the Open Stream API.

Facebook has finally grown up and joined the open web. As a developer, what will you build? Or as a user, what do you want to see built?

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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get a life facebook is fluff
nospam@... 27th Apr 2009
get a life facebook is fluff, a real time waster. go outside and play!
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What do I want to see built?
ccrashh2@... 27th Apr 2009
An effective way to stop the massive amounts of data streaming into my feed.
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RE: Facebook open streams, takes down walled garden
eapostol 27th Apr 2009
This might be the beginning of polluted streams of useless minutae of life everywhere.
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get a life facebook is fluff
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get a life facebook is fluff, a real time waster. go outside and play!

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