We’ve been saying that Facebook is expected to open up access to the feed for a while now and it appears that tomorrow is the day. Last week we were invited to a Monday afternoon developer cocktail hour at Facebook during which the announcement is expected to take place. This evening Jessica Vascellaro wrote about the expected announcement stating core parts would be opened, “namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles.”



Part of Vascellaro’s scoop is a bit questionable though since everything she has mentioned is already available. Vascellaro states “developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users’ permission.” Developers already had access to this information for months so there must be additional functionality, right?

While there are hints of additional functionality, Vascellaro doesn’t appear to reveal anything new. We’ve been writing for some time that Facebook is expected to open up two things: the feed and shared items. If develo