Most of you know that my favorite Twitter client for my BlackBerry has been UberTwitter.  I started using it since their first beta release and have been an avid user ever since.  Yesterday saw a new update to the application, Beta 4.  Two items included in this update jumped right out at me.

It appears as though Facebook is finally getting the hint about it’s API. The company announced today they have released the Open Stream API. This new API will allow developers to take advantage of all kinds of Facebook features. This same openess has worked wonders for Twitter, and I am sure Facebook is hoping for the same. In my opinion Facebook was forced to do this in order to keep up Twitter, as their service is growing like a wildfire every day. I for one, have stopped using Facebook on a regular basis due to this. I do not like having to log into their website (which is slow) to interact with certain features. I love Twitter because I have a plethora of desktop and cell phone apps to choose from.

On a related note Facebook has also announced an application built for Adobe AIR. Now I can’t wait for TweetDeck to update and use all the new Facebook features!

Big news was announced yesterday by Adobe and Facebook. They have jointly released an ActionScript 3.0 library for the Facebook API. This bundles the entire API into a prebuilt library ready to use on the Adobe Flash Platform. This is great news for the Flash/Flex developers out there, as previously it was up to you to write the code to hit the Facebook API. I believe this is also great news for the future at Adobe as well. In releasing this library they obvously see the importance of social media applications and how important these will be the in future. Hopefully this will lead to more integration into some of the other Adobe products. How about a cffacebook tag for ColdFusion?

TweetDeck has announced a new beta version of their AIR product that introduces Facebook integration. I downloaded it yesterday and have to say that so far it appears promising. You can now view status updates from your friends on Facebook directly in TweetDeck. When posting a new message you can choose to send it to Twitter, Facebook or both. Just remember that this release is a beta release, so use at your own risk.

Below is a quick screenshot of what the new message area looks like (notice the checkboxes for Facebook and Twitter).