New AIR Applications Take Real-Time Sharing Outside Facebook.com
In addition to Facebook’s announcement of new stream APIs this morning, Facebook has also just released the Facebook Desktop for AIR client to demonstrate the new functionality.
Facebook Desktop for AIR is the first app to let users fully interact with the Facebook stream on the desktop. With Facebook Desktop for AIR, the stream updates in real time, and users can comment, like, unlike, and share content to the stream right within the app. See the screenshot at right.
In addition, Seesmic announced today that it will be launching a fully featured Facebook client within a few days. The Seesmic Desktop client will integrate Facebook clients into one dashboard, alongside users’ Twitter accounts. Check out the video and screenshots below.
These are just the first of what should be many applications that remix the Facebook stream to enable better grouping, filtering, and publishing for different types of users. We’ll have all the latest as they emerge.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I’m impressed with Facebook Desktop, these clients are going to play a significant role in the Facebook ecosystem. If I were a developer I would be excited about the exposure this could potentially generate :)
April 27th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The race for facebook clients has started ;)
April 27th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
[...] Justin Bishop is demoing the Facebook Desktop for AIR client that we profiled this morning. Bishop says all the code is open sourced in Facebook’s SVN [...]
April 27th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I would love to know that the facebook app is open source… will check now.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:03 am
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May 5th, 2009 at 7:00 am
[...] it’s clear that users do want to consume their Facebook stream outside Facebook.com. The new client applications built on Facebook’s Open Stream API are a more secure step in that direction that Facebook is [...]