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A Summary Of Today’s Big Facebook Platform Changes

Today Facebook is making a number of announcements about changes to the platform at Facebook. We’ll be covering all of the changes as reported via today’s live stream. If you’re wondering why we aren’t covering the event from Facebook HQ, it’s because we’re based out of D.C.! If you’d like to sponsor AllFacebook with a San Francisco apartment however, we can give you a big ad!

[3:35 PT] Facebook says that they’ll be starting in five minutes.
[3:37 PT] Looks like Dave Morin, Mark Zuckerberg, Cheryl Sandberg and the other executives are in attendance. Assuming they’ll be present to answer…


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Official: Facebook Opens Stream API

Today Facebook will officially announce the opening of their stream API. According to the soon to be published blog post, “In addition to the Activity Streams interface, the Open Stream API includes robust new APIs called stream.get and stream.publish and new FQL tables that enable you to directly access the stream.” The new services leverage the emerging Activity Streams standard.

The post continues, “With these new methods, you can access the stream on behalf of a user and then filter, remix, and display the stream back to that user however you choose, wherever you choose, in the manner most relevant…


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Facebook Starts Recommending Branded Public Profiles

Last night Facebook turned on a feature which will surely build some buzz: the recommendation of brands as friends. Previously Twitter launched a user recommendation system which generated a lot of controversy as recommended users instantly got hundreds of thousands of followers. Many of the popular Twitter users have not yet embraced their Facebook public profiles in the same way that they’ve embraced their Twitter accounts.

Perhaps this new public profile recommendation system will help change that. So how are these new recommendations determined? While we don’t know yet, we have pinged Facebook to find out how they are generating…

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