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Friends Blog
Friends Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the friends facet of life. Friends-Blog: Friend-Finder News Facebook Disconnects Google`s Friend Finder: May 16, 2008 by Clint Boulton
Facebook declares war on data portability by suspending access to Google's Friend Connect social widget service. You have been measured. You have been weighed. And you have been found wanting. That's more or less what Facebook said in banning Google's Friend Connect social widget service, which launched to developers as a preview May 12, just days after Facebook announced a more amorphous data portability move May 9. Friend Connect aims to let Web site owners add a snippet of code to their Web sites to add user registration, invitations, member galleries, message posting and reviews. The idea is that site owners can socialize their site to boost stickiness. Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever said in a May 15 blog post that after testing Friend Connect, Facebook found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which is a gross violation of the company's privacy rules. "Just as we've been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, we've had to suspend Friend Connect's access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance," Cheever wrote. He went on to explain that Facebook officials tried multiple times to reach out to Google to get it to comply, but so far no luck. Facebook wants to get this sorted out before it launches Connect, its own effort to allow users to move Facebook content to other sites on the Internet. Friends Blog Comment:
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