On Sunday evening Facebook had a big announcement.  On the blog of its developer a post informed everyone that the major standard on which the Facebook people have been working for the last several months is ready to go.  The “Open Stream” API (Activity Streams) is the first time that this huge new standard will be used.

In simpler terms, this will let third party operators see content that is posted to feeds, such as videos, notes and links.  It will also allow them to view what’s going on in the social network’s other built in applications.

One of the developers of this new type of stream, says that this will put the days of just posting blogs on the Web, in the past.  Until now, the other developers could just get updates on the status of their stream. Now they will actually be able to interact with them using these new Activity Streams’ applications.  Quicker changes and other issues can be handled now using this technology.

Those who developed this hope that this will make communication the way it should be.  Fast and efficient messages between people and their servers is the goal.  Like e-mail or chat, this will soon become a very widely used tool.