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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect
Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn't involve openness or portability of data, it seems.
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Dwight Schrute on Google Friend Connect
http://jordy.gundy.org/ dwight-schrute-on-google-friend-connect/When I first read about Google Friend Connect, an upcoming service that will allow website owners to easily add social network functionality to their own websites, I immediately thought of these lines from NBC’s “The Office”: Dwight: Why am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend that a website made sales that I made?
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Facebook Calls it Off With Google. It will not Participate in ‘Friend Connect’ Citing Privacy Concerns
http://www.watblog.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ facebook-calls-it-off-with-google-it-will-…A few days back we wrote about Google’s Friend Connect and how it had partnered with Facebook to create what seemed to be like a happy marriage. Everyone was raving about the Internet becoming more Social – it still is anyway with networks opening themselves up and carrying information elsewhere.
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Philips Xenium X-Connect
http://www.trendygadget.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ philips-xenium-x-connect/It’s said under development and it’s also said to target Asian market, but if it’s become reality it could hit America or Europe as well, don’t worry. As a GPS-enabled phone, the X-Connect boasts 3-inch touch screen and will run on top of Windows Mobile 6 operating system.
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FaceBook Says No to Google Friend Connect
http://republicofinternets.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ facebook-says-no-to-google-friend-…I guess the question is really how “open” is open? Facebook today announced on their developer blog that they are essentially cutting off Google Friend Connect from accessing their user profile API. In the past, when we found applications passing user data to another party (for instance, to ad
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Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy
http://scobleizer.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ facebook-has-a-point-where-it-comes-to-your…My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. I saw Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s developer platform, at Google’s event Monday night.
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BlackBerry Connect Now Available On The Motorola Q
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/ 2008/ 05/ blackberry_connect_now_available_on_the_mot…BlackBerry's been everywhere recently, with their upcoming Bold phone to take on the iPhone and their Touchscreen Thunder also rumoured for a release later this year. But if you're after a HSDPA-enabled Blackberry and don't want to wait for either of those models to launch, you could always download BlackBerry Connect onto a Motorola Q9h.
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Facebook decided to block Google’s FriendConnect
http://www.onemoreidea.org/ facebook-decided-to-block-googles-friendconnect/Charlie Cheever from Facebook has hurled first real bomb in closely observed attempts by social networking platforms to "open up". Data portability promise got first reality check of ToS violation. Facebook spent couple of days brainstorming on Google's "grand design" and came to conclusion that it's better to block them right away.
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Facebook Blocks Google’s Friend Connect. There Goes the Open Web.
http://mashable.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ facebook-blocks-friend-connec/Facebook is all about openess, right? And privacy. It’s a balance, or something. Oftentimes it’s a tricky balance, but Facebook has self-instituted standards to live up to. And those standards say that Google’s new Friend Connect is evil (in so many words).
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By Open They Really Mean Closed
http://gigaom.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ by-open-they-mean-closed/This is hilarious. Google ignores MySpace. Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect. Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t
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By Open They Really Mean Closed
http://gigaom.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ by-open-they-mean-closed/This is hilarious. Google ignores MySpace. Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect. Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t