Facebook Opens RSS Feeds
August 15, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
In May, Facebook enabled developers to plug applications in through the Facebook platform. What they didn’t provide, however, was an industry-standard way to pump data out of Facebook. That all changes today as Dave Winer discovers three unprotected Facebook RSS feeds: notifications, friends’ status updates, and friends’ posted items. Check out my Facebook feeds to see what my Facebook friends are up to.
MySpacers, meanwhile, still wallow in a walled garden. As Josh Koppelman puts it, Facebook versus MySpace isn’t even a decision. It’s an IQ test.
