Facebook provides more power to third party developers

Facebook provides more power to third party developers

Facebook continues to open up their platform to provide more powers to third party developers as they compete with rivals like MySpace and even Twitter.

The social networking giant is now enabling developers to access user’s news streams.

This would enable users to access their data outside the Facebook platform.

Facebook has announced their Open Stream API which would now enable developers to create apps that let users view photos, status updates, events, and other information from their Facebook account outside Facebook.com.

Users would still have complete control over the data that is provided to third party developers.

Facebook spoke about this new feature announcement: “We think that working alongside our peers to create an open standard for accessing and consuming streams is the future. We’ll continue to make contributions to the standards community and related technologies and are happy to be one of the first companies to implement Activity Streams at scale.”

Checkout: Facebook Open Stream API