MySpace, then Facebook and then Google all recently launched services for third parties to access their users’ data through other sites.
Google, though, uses Facebook’s developer platform to distribute Facebook user data through its own service, Google Friend Connect. Now, Facebook has cut off that access.
When Google announced Friend Connect on Monday,... (Read more)
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i like facebook but why can't i get on
The only way Facebook seems to have value as an organisation is from the number of people on its site and the advertising it is trying to make money from, so it seemed a little strange to me that it would allow others to take its prized assets and place them with others. The whole data portability thing feels too good to be true, although great news for other sites on the web that can benefit from Facebook's community dropping by.
I hope the matter gets resolved, although maybe it will keep the situation stalled for long enough for someone else to come along and present a better way of doing the whole thing -- such as an independent site holding user information and authorising social networks to use it, but it stays in the possession of the independent, chosen by the user...
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You see the picture above?
4 sites converging to "Google" friend Contact?
Wonder why it cannot be "Yahoo" friend Contact or "Myspace" Friend contact ?
Google cannot play MONOPOLY and take it all - so there can be just one site
through which I can connect / exchange to all other sites ?
Why then should I visit those other sites ? How they do their small or big businesses?
Someone should put a brake on monopolizing things in the name of new, catchynamed technologies !
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