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While I appreciate this move--Facebook is a silo and you need to be able to get your data out--it's probably too little, too late. Facebook has half a billion

by cletus 16y ago

While I appreciate this move--Facebook is a silo and you need to be able to get your data out--it's probably too little, too late. Facebook has half a billion users and this mostly affects you when you sign up. It feels like the ship has sailed. Also, it'll need some other big players to adopt the same approach: Yahoo and Microsoft for a start.

bbarthel 16y ago
Except Microsoft and Yahoo already negotiated with Facebook for access to their contacts: "And it has also forged deals with both Hotmail and Yahoo that will let those services access its contact data. Google didn’t do a partnership with Facebook, so it doesn’t get the goods." Which makes me more curious why Google did not negotiate a similar deal and why they are trying to force the issue now.