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How-to: using the new Facebook stream API in a desktop app (ars technica)

Ryan Paul takes a look at a new set of APIs that allow third-party software to interact with the Facebook activity stream. "Courtesy of these APIs, rich support for Facebook could soon arrive in your favorite Twitter client and other social networking programs. In this article, I'll give you an inside look at how I used the new APIs to add full support for the Facebook stream in Gwibber, my own open source microblogging client for Linux."
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