Facebook announced that they have denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data.
The Google Friend Connect service would allow any Web site to have social networking features. This would allow users to go on a different Web site, and access their photos, profile, blogs, etc and update them accordingly.
Facebook is apparently not up for this idea at all though as they do not want Facebook users to interact with Google Friend Connect it seems.
Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever wrote in a blog post that “We’ve found that Google Friend Connect redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.”
Google has argued that it is not a privacy issue at all, as all Google Friend Connect does is give users full control over their data.
We will have to wait and see how this turns out, but it is clear and apparent that Facebook is not in the mood to connect with Google in any way as of right now.
Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability.
The formal announcement was made through a post on Facebook’s developer blog by senior platform manager Dave Morin, who has been one of the company’s most visible evangelists in the developer community over the past year. Facebook Connect will launch within the next few weeks.
Through Facebook Connect, members will be able to use their Facebook identities across the Web–profile photos, names, photos, friends, groups, events, and other information. Facebook profile content, for example, could appear on other social sites, and Facebook event listings could theoretically connect with external event and invitation services. Continue Reading »
Written on 10 May 2008
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Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies under an agreement with officials nationwide that was announced Thursday.The measures include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users’ ability to contact subscribers under 18 and participating in a task force set up in January to find ways to verify users’ ages and identities.
“The agreement marks another watershed step toward social networking safety, protecting kids from online predators and inappropriate content,” said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced the agreement Thursday with his counterparts in other states.
Officials from Washington, D.C., and 49 states have signed on. Continue Reading »
If you were to believe mobile social networks about their advertising predictions, they will by 2012 be raking in between $28 to $52 billion dollars in ad revenue. Given that normal online ad revenue only broke $27 billion for the first time in 2007, and with predicted drops in ad budgets due to the economic recession, the mobile predictions seem a bit hard to swallow.
Colin Gibbs of RCRWirelessNews brings us these predictions from Informa Telecoms & Media, and they may seem outrageous. They do to me, anyhow. Traditional online topped $27 billion globally with devices (PCs) people are more accustomed. But mobile is something that is still in a state of relative infancy in a large portion of the world. Yes, mobile handsets are everywhere, but how many places use them beyond their phone features on a regular basis? Japan is well known for their tendency to do everything from their handsets, but in countries such as the United States, you might see us doing simple checks for sports scores or the weather; intensive, fully- interactive browsing is not quite the norm. Yet. Continue Reading »
Written on 28 April 2008
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Facebook is generally considered to be among the safest of social networks in terms of sharing personal media, mainly because of the increasing number of privacy options that are available to users. While security breaches are common enough to know that there’s an inherent risk in sharing personal information across social networks (and yes, email too), a recent loophole in Facebook’s photo albums is quick to remind us that every once in a while, bad things happen.
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