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.

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." ...