Facebook Disconnects Google: Protecting Users... Or Itself?

Inforworld reports that Facebook has cut off Google's Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook's APIs. Facebook claims that Google Friend Connect "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our...

Techdirt | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08

Get Your Message Out: Pingercast Messaging

by Michelle Lentz I like to post something light on Fridays, something fun. But “the Internets” are all abuzz about the data portability-Facebook-Google kerfluffle. That’s just not light or fun - nor is it something I feel prepared to voice my opinions on just yet.  So I dug...

bub.blicio.us | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08

What Data Portability Means for Business

There has been a ton of discussion surrounding data portability in light of Facebook’s decision to bow out of Google Friend Connect and go it alone with their own service. Mike Arrington accurately argues that data portability is the new walled garden. The current race for social networks...

The Social Times | more posts | 53 days | Fri., May 16, '08

Facebook blocks Google, for your own good

The “whose data is it anyway” wars seem to have flared up again, judging by what’s going on with Google and Facebook over the data-sharing issue: Facebook has blocked Google’s new Google Connect feature from pulling your “social graph” data out of Facebook. But...

mathewingram.com/work | more posts | 54 days | Fri., May 16, '08