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The new war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google Inc. will no longer let other services, especially Facebook Inc., automatically import its users’ email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flows both ways, according to the Reuters’ report.
It accused Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, in particular of siphoning up Google’s contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users’ information.
When you initially sign up for Facebook, you’re run through a series of prompts asking you to enter your Google account information so that Facebook can import the email addresses of your contacts.
This is a very powerful feature because it helps new users instantly connect with dozens of their friends. And Google is turning it off, because it thinks Facebook isn’t playing fair.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/06/google-blocks-data-from-facebook-as-rivalry-heats-up/The new war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google Inc. will no longer let... more
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