techcrunchit.com - 4/27/2009
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting Facebook will open up most if not all of their user-contributed data to developers at a developer event tomorrow. This has been long expected and will likely trigger a wave of third-party integration of Facebook streams with other popular feeds, most notably ...
developers.facebook.com - 4/27/2009
online.wsj.com - 4/26/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans
to open up core parts of its sites --...
namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users' homepages and profiles -- to third-party developers so that they can build new ...
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Facebook Opens Site To Developers Of Services
readwriteweb.com - 4/27/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
What are people saying on Facebook about the
swine flu? Facebook knows, but they won't tell you....
The company made a major move today to open up some of the data on the site in some interesting ways - but the conversation on Facebook remains ...
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Despite New Openness, Facebook Remains Fundamentally Closed
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Facebook to Open Feeds to Developers
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... same third-party developers will likely modify their applications and services to include Facebook user streams. For example, it would be natural for Tweet Deck, which already tracks a user's friends' status updates on Facebook, to include those friends' videos, photos and shared links too."There's also a chance that some developers planning apps to tap into Twitter's 20 million users, might now decide they'd rather put their efforts into reaching 200 million." And my main man, Steve Gillmor, at TechCrunch , said:"While Twitter has tremendous advantages for newbies, the depth ...
Facebook Opens Up Its Stream API To Developers
TechCrunch —
... This is a big deal. It potentially puts Facebook side by side with Twitter in all of these desktop and mobile client applications where a lot of the real-time conversation is happening and lets it compete head-to-head with Twitter. Whichever conversation stream is more interesting will prevail. ...
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