Around two years back Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, came up with Open Stream API. The Facebook team wanted the users to have full control and choice. And so it had opened up its streaming data to third party developers. The Open Stream API allows the developers to use the facebook activity stream inside their own applications. Moreover, users can choose whether their data is shared. The new

Facebook Open Stream API

is two-way, which allows developers to build apps which allow for that two-way communication inside the app. The stream API has opened up the possibility for many new applications both within Facebook and outside its walls.

Besides having the Activity Stream Interface, the Open Stream API also includes robust new APIs called stream.get, stream.publish and new FQL tables that enables one to directly access the stream. With these new methods, one can access the stream on behalf of a user and then filter, remix, and display the stream back to that user. Other new API methods allow users to publish into the stream, add comments and “likes” to posts in the stream. The new APIs allow applications developers to access and publish information in users’ home page streams.

The developers are able to filter and remix the stream – consisting of status updates, photos, videos, notes, as well as likes and comments on all the above – as they see fit. They can also create content directly in the streams; for example, an application is able to change the user’s status update. Facebook users can use these applications to read and interact with their stream in any application they have authorized. The entire stream is available for developers to remix and create new experiences. Developers are creating innovative applications that optimize the real-time Facebook experience for different use cases.

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