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Twitter look out! Here comes Facebook Stream

By Joaquin Lippincott, CEO, April 27, 2009

Facebook just announced a public API to the Facebook Stream (aka Facebook updates). This adds to the already sizable API's available via Facebook and takes them into direct competition with Twitter, who's success can be at least partly attributed to their open API and the plethora of Twitter driven application that are now available.

I haven't yet had a chance to review the new API, but I am excited about it. Among other things Facebook allows for conversation threading, a big piece of what I think Twitter lacks. The API has already been available to a select group of Beta developers, one being the Adobe AIR based Seesmic Desktop. Facebook has also released their own AIR application as well.

Twitter lookout! Here comes Facebook...

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About the Author

Joaquin Lippincott, CEO

Joaquin is a 20+ year technology veteran helping to lead businesses in the move to the Cloud. He frequently speaks on panels about the future of tech ranging from IoT and Machine Learning to the latest innovation in the entertainment industry.  He has helped to modernize software for industry leaders like Sony, Daimler, Intel, the Golden Globes, Siemens Wind Power, ABC, NBC, DC Comics, Warner Brothers & the Linux Foundation.

As the CEO and Founder of Metal Toad, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, his primary job is to "get the right people in the room".  This one responsibility is cross-functional and includes both external business development functions as well as internal delegation and leadership development.

A UCLA alumni, he also serves in the community as a Board Member for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, and Stand for Children Oregon - a public education political advocacy group. As an outspoken advocate for entry-level job creation in tech he helped found the non-profit, P4TH, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of entry-level jobs in the tech industry, and is in the process of organizing an Advisory Board for the Bixel Exchange, a Los Angeles non-profit that provides almost 200 tech internships every year.

 

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