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Zuckerberg to Google: Let's connect, friend

Facebook launched its Japanese-language version today and vision-questing, globe-trotting CEO Mark Zuckerberg magically appeared in the land of the rising sun to take reporters' questions. Among the queries: What's the deal with Facebook dropping Google Friend Connect, the search engine's new service that sucks data out of rival social networks? Zuck explained: More »

12:40 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,303 views, 3 comments

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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 »