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Facebook just not that into Google Friend Connect

Facebook has shut off access to Google's new Friend Connect, citing privacy issues, saying that the service "redistributes data" in ways that users don't "expect or understand," according to a blog post by Facebook developer Charlie Cheever. Google Friend Connect collected and displayed information available through Facebook's tools for third-party web developers to use on their own sites. Funny, Facebook hasn't had a problem with tracking users on third-party sites in the past, but then Facebook just launched a similarly named tool, Facebook Connect. More »

2:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Jackson West
1,193 views, 1 comment

Latest by michaellamb: they don't seem to have any problem "connecting" my data to their advertisers. more »

your privacy is an illusion

Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide

Facebook's formal announcement of Facebook Connect is at once a transparently timed response to MySpace's announcement of partnerships with eBay and Twitter yesterday and the culmination of things the social network has been working on for ages. Facebook Connect, at its simplest, lets websites like Digg and Twitter integrate their users' activity into Facebook users' News Feeds. Those two companies, as well as Yahoo's Flickr and Google's Picasa, have been using Facebook Connect well before it was unveiled under that name. It cements Facebook's role as a central place to keep up with one's friends. Yet I'm not sure how I feel about it. More »

1:20 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,787 views, 11 comments

Latest by Fidel on the Roof: "And indeed, that's one reason why I mocked MySpace's move; its users' pseudonymous logins have no particular value as sources of identity" Wait... you think that FadBook has real identities? Wow! more »