Link: Facebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream
If true, this could be huge. It looks like the premise is that third-party developers will be able to get access to Facebook data (including photos) through new APIs.
This could make Facebook much less of a walled garden and give them a more compelling competitive response to services like Twitter.
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it will be interesting specifically what data will be available and how it can be used. hopefully, it just wont be small subset will also include some demo / behavioral info
Though if they give anyone access to republish my pix/updates w/o my ability to opt out, I’ll just remove all pix, and use only facebook updates — and move all interaction with long-lost friends to e-mail or elsewhere.