Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect


	Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect

dgreplay

5-16-2008 4:02 PM

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dgreplay says:

Don't you get the feeling that FB is turning into AOL circa 1996? I think i know how this story ends...

" Mr Zuckerberg, tear down this wall! "

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