Thursday, June 25, 2009

Facebook lets any site add live comment streams - Business Center - PC World

Any Web site owner can now put up a stream of Facebook status updates, using a feature that the social networking platform introduced on Wednesday.

The Facebook Live Stream Box is available free for placement next to a streaming video of a live event, on an individual's or company's Facebook page, or on any other site, according to a blog posting by Tom Whitnah, a software developer at Facebook. After getting an API (application programming interface) key, developers only need to upload a small file to the site and add a few lines of code to set up the stream...