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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 users have come to expect." Techcrunch has more details about what Google was doing and what Facebook objected to. Facebook is getting a fair amount of flack for this decision, and it's not hard to see why. Given that Facebook has just rolled out its own competing service for linking third-party websites to Facebook, we can't help but wonder if the privacy issues aren't just a cover to avoid having to interoperate with a major competitor.
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via Techdirt @ 11:22 19th May
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azuredrake writes "Facebook, the largest social networking site in the US, has sued German social networking site studiVZ on the grounds that studiVZ has copied the look and feel of Facebook in order to piggyback off their success. According to the article, 'The German company sued by Facebook for running a "knockoff" of the social networking Web site said on Sunday it asked a German court to declare that Facebook's claims are without merit.' However, a simple glance at the two sites' homepages seems to tell a different story — studiVZ copies many things from Facebook, from their button layout down to the font they're using."
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via Slashdot @ 8:06 21st Jul
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Facebook has suspended Google's Friend Connect, saying Google distributes user information to developers without users' knowledge. Google says Facebook doesn't allow users to unlink or change shared data. Analysts say blocking Google's Friend Connect could advance Facebook's own recently released Facebook Connect.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 9:51 24th May
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Earlier this month, Facebook announced "Facebook Connect", which would allow you to sync Facebook accounts with other websites, such as Digg. With these developments came hinting that social networking was in for a change. Facebook has plans to veer away from being a normal standalone site.
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via Neowin.net @ 14:05 27th May
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San Francisco - Online social network Facebook has blocked a recent feature offered by Google (NASD: GOOG) that would have let users take their personal data from Facebook and automatically post it on other sites, Wired.com reported. The company has banned Google's new Friend Connect service, saying it "doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect." Meanwhile, the company this week announced plans to launch its own Facebook Connect that will do much the same thing as Friend Connect, but allow Facebook to retain control over how its members' personal data is shared.
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via Digital Media Wire @ 5:14 17th May
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Google’s new Friend Connect initiative is in trouble. On May 15, Facebook effectively pulled out of participation in Google Friend Connect service, which links social networks and traditional Web sites. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, weâve had a chance to evaluate the technology. Weâve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without usersâ knowledge, which doesnât respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service. Just as weâve been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, weâve had to suspend Friend Connectâs access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance,” according to Facebook.
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via Business Week @ 18:56 16th May
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kaos07 links to this ZDNet story, according to which "Researchers at software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial 'Beacon' tracking service. Responding to privacy concerns, Facebook has since moved to reassure users that it only tracks and publishes data about their purchases if they are both logged in to Facebook and have opted-in to having this information listed on their profile. But in 'extremely disconcerting' findings that directly contradict these assurances, researchers at CA's Security Advisory service have found that data about these transactions are sent to Facebook regardless of a user's actions.
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via Slashdot @ 12:30 18th Jul
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Facebook Platform to become Open Source. Facebook, the social website currently leading the pack, is apparently going to turn its Facebook Developers platform Open Source in the following days according to an article published in TechCrunch.
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via Big Mouth Media @ 18:50 27th May
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facebook.jpgHere's a shocker for you: Facebook doesn't want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google's recently-launched Friend Connect service, which would allow you to pull your personal data out of Facebook and use it elsewhere.
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via Wired News @ 18:55 16th May
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Facebook has blocked Google's new Friend Connect service for sharing user content among social networks. Facebook charged that Google's Friend Connect distributes user information without users' knowledge. But an analyst says control is the issue and suggested that Google's Friend Connect is stealing revenue from Facebook.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 15:29 21st May
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Facebook is releasing as open-source software parts of its application development platform in order to make it easier for programmers to create applications for the social-networking site, the company announced Monday. Facebook will offer as open source "most" of the code that runs its platform, plus implementations of its most popular methods and tags. This is another step in Facebook's program for external developers, which it kicked off a little over a year ago when it opened up its platform to them.
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via Addict3d.org @ 22:10 2nd Jun
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Facebook and Google are butting heads over Google's Friend Connect, a platform for porting your social networking data around the Web. Originally a partner on the project, Facebook has now blocked Friend Connect -- but is Facebook protecting users or itself?
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via Tech News World @ 3:29 17th May
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to talk with Google about its Friend Connect, which Facebook blocked last week. Facebook maintains it's protecting its users' private data from being shared without their knowledge, but it won't offer particulars. The whole thing looks like a FUD campaign.
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via Tech News World @ 3:57 20th May
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In an effort to spur even more application development activity, Facebook has opened up much of the source code and tools for its Facebook Platform. More than 24,000 applications have been developed on the platform in its first year, Facebook said.
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via Linux Insider @ 21:08 5th Jun
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The latest benchmark analysis from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Lab, "BlackBerry Facebook Mobile Application Cool, Easy to Use, but Where Are My Messages?" evaluates core features of the BlackBerry Facebook mobile application, including changing status, checking and replying to new messages, inviting Facebook friends, uploading and adding captions to and tagging pictures.
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via Street Insider @ 16:21 2nd Jul
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LONDON (Business Wire) -- The latest benchmark analysis from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Lab, "BlackBerry Facebook Mobile Application Cool, Easy to Use, but Where Are My Messages?" evaluates core features of the BlackBerry Facebook mobile application, including changing status, checking and replying to new messages, inviting Facebook friends, uploading and adding captions to and tagging pictures.
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via Globe Investor @ 16:21 2nd Jul
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One of the biggest impacts of the new Facebook redesign will be on third-party developers, whose products now appear on an Facebook applications tab instead of directly on users' profile pages. Facebook developers are waiting with bated breath to see how the redesign impacts their programs.
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via CIO Today @ 9:32 11th Jul
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One of the biggest impacts of the new Facebook redesign will be on third-party developers, whose products now appear on an Facebook applications tab instead of directly on users' profile pages. Facebook developers are waiting with bated breath to see how the redesign impacts their programs.
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via Top Tech News @ 7:06 2nd Jul
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Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements.
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via MONiTOR Today! @ 3:23 17th May
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Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements.
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via Information Week @ 10:18 16th May
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Facebook has suspended the use of a Google service which allowed people to export their Facebook friends list to other websites, claiming that the Google service violates users' privacy.
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via Out-Law.com @ 22:54 22nd May
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google's Friend Connect last week, he said Monday.
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via PC World @ 11:21 19th May
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google's Friend Connect last week, he said Monday.
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via NetworkWorld @ 5:43 19th May
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Facebook app connects Wii gamersIf, like us, you’re fed up of having to remember your Wii Friend code when hosting online Mario Kart sessions, help is at hand! Popping up on Facebook is the Wii Friend Number app, linking gamers and friend codes together in a much more sensible way.
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via ElectricPig @ 10:32 7th Jun
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Facebook announced Monday that it would be making a "significant part" of its developer platform open-source. The company called it "just a first step" in a release and said that developers will see open-source technology in "most of the code that runs Facebook Platform plus implementations of many of the most-used methods and tags." Most of it is licensed under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) and the rest under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
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via CNET News.com @ 22:11 2nd Jun
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