I’m here at Facebook’s office in downtown Palo Alto, where the company is holding a special Technology Tasting to announce and demonstrate its latest APIs and other features it is going to begin offering developers. In the last two days we’ve heard about some of the announcements, including its decision to grant developers access to full streams – a big step for a service that has previously been quite reserved about exporting its data. And earlier today we learned about its decision to fullly embrace of OpenID, which is a huge leap forward for the initiative.
I’ll be streaming the event live using Qik, during which we will be shown demos of some of the first implementations of the full Facebook streams and its integration with OpenID.
Update: Facebook is using Plaxo as an example of enabling two-way flow between Facebook Connect, so you can share activity between 3rd party sites and Facebook via linking accounts.
Showing Facebook desktop powered by Adobe Air. Loic Le Meur, creator of Twhirl and Seesmic Desktop, is presenting how Seesmic Desktop is integrating Twitter and Facebook together into its desktop client. He says you should be able to post video to Facebook from the Seesmic Desktop.
Microsoft has also shown off a pair of very cool applications featuring its .NET and Silverlight platforms. Even more impressive: the apps were put together in 72 hours.
Luke Shepard is now talking OpenID and Facebook Connect are working together. See our earlier post.
The full videos (broken into three segments because the connection died a few times) are below.
technology tasting? Hmmm…something new instead of a wine tasting.
Zuck is obsessed with sharing. New newsfeed sucks, which streams only items explicitly shared. No spontaneous actions are streamed like old feed.
Love that the video was shot on Qik
About time they did this. It’s been a frustrating wait.
why dont you guys use something beside qik. the video freeze every 3 secs
Hey dude, why don’t you build yours and stop complaining.
… paging ……… ……..cry me a river
No audio either!!
Auto-start video is annoying. Get rid of it.
twit.live.tv if you want to watch this on better stream…
Video freezes often – too bad, I would have loved to see this!
There’s a downtown palo alto? Ba-zing.
twit.live.tv is just a bunch of porn…
live.twit.tv works –
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Just because Seesmic Desktop added video integration with Facebook doesn’t make me switch from Tweetie. I rather have a rich native app, then a cluttered Adobe AIR app.
open id = radical transparency
fully implemented it will decentralize social users presence. one visit to your social hub gives all the social sites a visit. unique visitor stats may become opaque.
OpenLocator.com – freedom reigns
Technology tasting sounds delicious, cool vid by the way.
why don’t you build yours and stop complaining.
I was already using OpenID with the annoying service – Plaxo. I don’t see where Facebook streams would offer much help to Plaxo. I like OpenID and if I’m authenticated, I can move to sites rather seamlessly.
Glad they are doing this and making the system more realtime. I still wonder how they are going to make money.
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so what
Its time someone builds an alternative facebook UI using their apis which doesnt subject its visitors to the obnoxious quizzes and the status updates related to them !
It’s good to see that they’re finally doing this, wish it had been sooner though.