First Look: Publishing Data to the Facebook Stream Using the New Stream APIs
There were two sides to the stream APIs that Facebook released yesterday: getting data, which we’ve looked at, and publishing and updating. The latter has the potential to really open up Facebook to external sites, and although it’s only available to application developers at the moment it’s worth taking a look at how it works.
Trying to entice a user to give you permission to update their stream via your application or Connect site is as simple as it is for reading: there’s a simple piece of FBML which can be presented as a text link, button or other HTML element that prompts the user to grant an extended
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