Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
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Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#2Google could easily fix this w/o impacting other services: block Facebook's referrer. And then present them with an opt-in page for Google.me... BOOM! Instant win? High five.
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#3or "facebook won't let you liberate your facebook data to alternate providers".
i don't understand why people tolerate facebook. they don't seem deserving of the trust people give them. first opt-in/opt-out privacy issues, now this... plus it doesn't seem like they're really trying to make money yet. i suppose this is what the initial "exclusivity" of the facebook brand got them: loyalty without needing trust.
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#4Uh, exporting your address book from Google and uploading it to Facebook is perfectly within any user's rights - it's a textbook example of data liberation. Now if only I could export my facebook pictures and easily import them into Picasa, or sync my facebook wall with my Buzz stream...
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#5Uh, exporting your address book from Google and uploading it to Facebook is perfectly within any user's rights - it's a textbook example of data liberation. Now if only I could export my facebook pictures and easily import them into Picasa, or sync my facebook wall with my Buzz stream...
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#6or "facebook won't let you liberate your facebook data to alternate providers". i don't understand why people tolerate facebook. they don't seem deserving of the trust people give them. first opt-in/opt-out privacy issues, now this... plus it doesn't seem like they're really trying to make money yet. i suppose this is what the initial "exclusivity" of the facebook brand got them: loyalty without needing trust.
I wish I could make it seem like I wasn't trying to make money but pull in ~$1.2-2B this year[0][1]
[0] http://www.allfacebook.com/facebooks-ad-revenue-to-surpass-1...
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/facebook-will-hit-2-billion...
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#7or "facebook won't let you liberate your facebook data to alternate providers". i don't understand why people tolerate facebook. they don't seem deserving of the trust people give them. first opt-in/opt-out privacy issues, now this... plus it doesn't seem like they're really trying to make money yet. i suppose this is what the initial "exclusivity" of the facebook brand got them: loyalty without needing trust.
Most non-technical average users (read: the majority of their users ) just don't really understand / care about the privacy issues.
They just love the experience they can find at and pretty much only at the facebook site.
The tech press and media make an initial fuss about all of it but by the time they figure out a way to bring it down to a level the masses can understand facebook has put a notification on the top of the News Feed to explain.
I'm not agreeing with the practices merely attempting to explain why in the minds of the lion share of facebook users mind it just does not matter
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#8Uh, exporting your address book from Google and uploading it to Facebook is perfectly within any user's rights - it's a textbook example of data liberation. Now if only I could export my facebook pictures and easily import them into Picasa, or sync my facebook wall with my Buzz stream...
Your photos are easily accessible using the Graph API[1]. I wrote a python script which downloads all your photos and saves them to your computer[2]. However, I agree that Facebook doesn't make it easy for other web services to access stored data.
[1]: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#9Google could easily fix this w/o impacting other services: block Facebook's referrer. And then present them with an opt-in page for Google.me... BOOM! Instant win? High five.
I'm pretty sure Facebook would then remove the href on the link & tell people to copy/paste it into their browser.
Re: Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
#10Uh, exporting your address book from Google and uploading it to Facebook is perfectly within any user's rights - it's a textbook example of data liberation. Now if only I could export my facebook pictures and easily import them into Picasa, or sync my facebook wall with my Buzz stream...
Funnily enough I checked my photos on facebook the other day and half of them have disappeared. Been deleted.
Don't rely on facebook keeping your photos, let alone allowing you to export them.