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Facebook blocks Google, for your own good

Started by mathewi · 3 months ago

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%2 ... Continue reading »

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Frymaster
3 months ago

Wha? Open standards? That'll never work ;-)

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Kevin Heisler
3 months ago

You're right on the money, Matthew. Nothing could be less about privacy than Facebook's decision to protect its membership base.

It's clear that Facebook wants to keep their members inside their garden walls.

Facebook is building a moat around its castle to keep the search giant out.

Dear Google, Facebook's Just Not That Into You
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080516-1...

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teddyhcraig
3 months ago

Iron website giants...
Google vs Facebook...

Todays secret ingredient: The end user!

Let the battle begin!

In the end, we control them, by voting with our presence of lack thereof...
And all the really smart people in positions of power know that and ask in such a way as to show they know that! The fools don't and are punished!

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antje wilsch
3 months ago

As a developer, I can totally understand the desire to keep a walled garden because of privacy and control. As working for a business with users who give up their time, their content, their connections - I can totally see why wanting to keep them in the fold is important and doing your best to bar them from being harassed. As a consumer, I am 100% about not re-entering my data, and going for standarisation, but not sure WHO I want or even trust to "guard" my data. At the end of the day, these sites are nothing without their users.

What a messy smorgasboard of conflicting feelings.

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Blaise Alleyne
3 months ago

I support Facebook on this one, as long as they can work the issue out with Google.

How can they support user privacy if, in the name of openness, they allow any third party complete access to your data?

They're trying to strike a balance, to find a way to protect user privacy while making data portable. Give them a break.

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Artur
3 months ago

I disagree. I have a lot of data in Google databases. In the gnotebook, gmail, gcheckout. And I believe they should have some competitors to:
- not have ALL my data ;-)
- improve their products
- simply give me (even illusionary) choice between them and competitive solutions

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