Desktop Apps Can Upload Photos to Facebook

Facebook announced on its Facebook Developers blog that desktop applications can now upload photos using the social-networking site’s open-source library, which is based on Adobe AIR technology.

Justin Bishop, a software engineer on Facebook’s Platform team, posted:

The new version of Facebook for Adobe AIR lets you drag and drop photos directly into the application. Here’s a video showing how a user can do this.

You can download the open source library so you can start building your desktop application.

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