Applications. Facebook Introduces 'Live Stream Box' - The new featur. Facebook is going forward with its plan for world domination with the launch of a new feature called “Live Stream Box,” allowing Facebook pages to offer chat to go along with their streaming videos.
The feature was first used during President Obama's inauguration ceremony, when CNN offered side-by-side chat, powered by the social network, along with the video content. Now, Facebook is making the feature available to any site or developer that wants to offer live chat with their events. “Today, we're excited to launch the Facebook Live Stream Box as a feature that any website owner or developer can use to enable Facebook users to connect, share, and post updates in real-time as they witness an event online,” Tom Whitnah, Facebook developer, wrote. A PHP Class For Facebook Application Developer. How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009. (Fortune Magazine) -- Facebook held no appeal for Peter Lichtenstein.
The New Paltz, N.Y., resident had checked out so-called social networking sites before, and he wasn't impressed. ("MySpace," he recalls, "was ridiculous. ")