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Facebook Calls it Off With Google. It will not Participate in ‘Friend Connect’ Citing Privacy Concerns

A few days back we wrote about Google’s Friend Connect and how it had partnered with Facebook to create what seemed to be like a happy marriage. Everyone was raving about the Internet becoming more Social – it still is anyway with networks opening themselves up and carrying information elsewhere. How many of you watch have watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S? And how many of you remember that episode in which Ross and Rachel get married in a drunken stupor?

Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.

Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.

David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. Website owners will be able to use the hosted application to allow interactions with visitors from social-networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, by copying and pasting snippets of code into their site.
 
“The web is getting better by getting [...]

Share MySpace, Facebook Data With Other Sites – The Death of the Walled Garden Imminent Soon?

Share MySpace, Facebook Data With Other Sites – The Death of the Walled Garden Imminent Soon?

MySpace recently announced the launch of a new service called “Data Availability” which will allows MySpace users to share their public profile data with other Web sites like Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay, and Photobucket and exercise a degree of control over what information is to be shared, as also, with whom. Instead of updating information on every site, MySpace users [...]