Fair point. I linked to the TechCrunch story as it was the first to report Google's move, not as the basis for people saying you couldn't export contacts. Perha

Fair point. I linked to the TechCrunch story as it was the first to report Google's move, not as the basis for people saying you couldn't export contacts. Perhaps "many" overstated the situation, but I've seen it come up on Twitter and in various articles; see, for instance, http://gigaom.com/2010/11/05/nice-move-google-what-took-you-so-long/ http://gigaom.com/2010/11/05/nice-move-google-what-took-you-... Also, Arrington's follow-up mentioned that Facebook has "pretty much refused to let users export social graph data" (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/05/data-protectionism-begins-in-earnest/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/05/data-protectionism-begins-i...) It's been my general experience that people don't seem to be aware of the Yahoo trick, and since the Google story has people talking once again about what data you can get out of Facebook, I thought it would be a good time to bring it up.