Ol' Facebook has launched an open stream API giving third-party developers access to users' activity streams when creating applications. The idea here is to spawn a new generation of advanced applications. An open source approach helped catapult Twitter into the mainstream as third-party apps like Tweetdeck found a myriad of uses for the micro-blogging service. Now the race is really on between Facebook and Twitter to become the dominant real-time social messaging and commenting platform. Tweetdeck rival Seesmic is one of the first developers to take advantage of…
Jeromy StallingsApril 28, 2009