Facebook Opening A Public Stream Firehose?

According to ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, Facebook is planning to open up a firehose to the public Facebook stream at this year’s f8 event. What is included in that stream is not exactly clear, however it makes sense that Facebook would provide access to this sort of data. Given that Twitter now has an entire ecosystem of apps built around the public stream, it’s not surprising to hear Facebook is interested in offering similar services.

As Marshall Kirkpatrick points out in his article, whether or not the public publishing of this data means that users want that data to be broadcasted to a wider audience is not clear.