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Facebook disconnects Google Friend Connect
Facebook also made a swift response to Google's Friend Connect. Today (5/15), in a facebook developers blog, Charlie Cheever said:
"we’ve had to suspend Friend Connect’s access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance."
The reason cited by Charlie is that:"We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, ... is a violation of our Terms of Service."
Since Google did not make any immediate reply, I think they are trying to resolve this problem with Facebook behind the scene. We will know more in the next few days. Scobleizer has a blog on this that is worth reading.
For Google, the success of Friend Connect will depend more on the participation of its key OpenSocial partners, MySpace and Yahoo, than that from Facebook. Friend Connect needs a federation of 2 or 3 major social networks to make a difference. If Google and MySpace can work together to merge MySpace's "Data Availability" and Google's Friend Connect into a single project, then it will attract Yahoo's participation and will make Facebook's "Facebook Connect" a minor player in the federation space.
Posted at 09:11PM May 15, 2008 by tientienli in Personal |