Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect


	Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0b48d751-59ff-4eae-b530-a29c6fe1bcb4/0C7DB35F-1936-4CE6-91CD-F036837DEBE7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect" style="font-size: 11px;">www.webpronews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><H2>Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.webpronews.com/img/39131F20-0CAD-4FA8-B567-FC32F0AE9847" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><B>Implies Google ignored privacy concerns</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><P><DIV>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. </DIV> <BR /> On the Facebook Developers blog, <A href="http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=111">Charlie Cheever</A> says Friend Connect, Google's Open Social-based program allowing webmasters to integrate social networking features on their sites, doesn't measure up privacy-wise:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><DIV class="submitted">
     By <A title="View user profile." href="http://www.webpronews.com/user/jason-lee-miller">Jason Lee Miller</A> - Thu, 05/15/2008 - 4:07pm.         </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/15/facebook-snubs-googles-friend-connect"><P>Google launched <A href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/12/google-previews-friend-connect">Friend Connect</A> soon after Facebook released <A href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/09/facebook-has-connections">Facebook Connect</A>, which was released shortly after MySpace launched its own service called Data Availability. All aim to integrate features of those networks into other sites. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0C7DB35F-1936-4CE6-91CD-F036837DEBE7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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