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informationweek.com May 16, 2008

Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Facebook isn't feeling very social toward Google. The social networking site on Thursday broke up with Google Friend Connect -- the search... [read full story]

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Facebook suspends participation in Google's Friend Connect

ecoustics.com May 15, 2008

Posted by Caroline McCarthy | Post a comment This post was updated at 12:51 PM. A post Thursday on Facebook's developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's "Friend Connect" project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service. "Now that Google has...

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Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect

webpronews.com May 15, 2008

Looking to not repeat the privacy panic occurring when the company launched Beacon, Facebook has excused itself from participation in Google's recently unveiled Friend Connect. On the Facebook Developers blog, Charlie Cheever says Friend Connect, Google's Open Social-based program allowing...

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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect

newsvine.com May 15, 2008

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu May 15, 2008 4:00 PM EDT Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend...

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Facebook Blocks Google’s Friend Connect. There Goes the Open Web.

mashable.com May 15, 2008

Facebook is all about openess, right? And privacy. It’s a balance, or something. Oftentimes it’s a tricky balance, but Facebook has self-instituted standards to live up to. And those standards say that Google’s new Friend Connect is evil (in so many words). As Friend Connect supposedly shares...

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On second thought, Facebook opts out of Google 'Friend Connect' for now

betanews.com May 15, 2008

5:30 pm ET May 15, 2008 - In a blog post today, Facebook developer Charlie Cheever said Facebook will be blocking Google's Friend Connect, citing a revelation about how it distributes users' private information. Cheever remarked, "Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we've had a chance to...

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Facebook just not that into Google Friend Connect [Feuds]

valleywag.com May 15, 2008

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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Google Friend Connect

efoundations.typepad.com May 15, 2008

This did the rounds fairly extensively on Twitter yesterday but is still worth a mention here... Google have announced Friend Connect (currently on a limited beta release as far as I can tell) which "lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website". The following video...

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Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden

originalsignal.com May 16, 2008

The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. And their three new products, Data...

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TechCrunch: Data portability is the new walled garden

journalism.co.uk May 16, 2008

Michael Arrington says the spat between Google and Facebook over the banning of Google's Friend Connect is purely and simply about control of users and user information. "Internet giants know that the days of getting you to spend all of your time inside their walled gardens are over," he writes....

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Google and Facebook - battling for friends to connect

bigmouthmedia.com May 16, 2008

Google Friend Connect has hit a stumbling block only three days after its release - Facebook has banned the application.On Friday 9th May Facebook announced their "Facebook Connect" initative which allows third party sites to implement features of Facebook. On the following Monday Google...

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