Twitter is preparing to launch several impressive new features, including a new streaming API that will give desktop client applications real-time access to the user's message timeline. The new ...

Facebook said Monday it will open its streaming data to third party developers. In a blog post, Facebook outlined the plans (also see documentation). The Facebook Open Stream API will allow ...

The social-networking giant will let developers tap into and tinker with the Twitter-like flow of user content that Facebook calls the "stream." ...

As we speculated this weekend, Facebook has opened up its activity stream through a new API for developers. Now any developer can create new applications incorporating the real-time stream. One of ...

For example, when somebody posts a tinypic image in the stream, it shows up as a link attachment that points to the image and its src attribute is a thumbnail that is hosted on Facebook.