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Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers
- w1ntermute 16y ago/Grabs another bag of popcorn and sits back to enjoy the show. Doesn't look like this squabble is ending any time soon. Unfortunately, it just seems like it's going to have a negative impact on both sides.
- joshes 16y agoFrom what I can tell, the loss of functionality has been entirely on Facebook's side to this point. Right?
- mike-cardwell 16y agoThe people who have lost out have been GMail users.
- alphaoverlord 16y agoThey need to make a Taiwanese news animation of this drama. Better than daytime TV.
- bretthopper 16y agoMore: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_appledaily/ http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_appledaily/
- kmfrk 16y agoLooks like mutually assured destruction. This is hardly a zero sum game.
- scalyweb 16y agoFacebook,your britches are looking a bit small these days. IPO dreams sure do lead to mediocre results.
- ck2 16y agoThis is a bad thing? Could they please de-list AOL as well so my computer-noob friends will stop giving out their login to facebook? I am tired of the creepy spam from Facebook that has learned my name and location and harasses me to join because my friends don't realize what they are doing.
- gcheong 16y agoThey still have the "other e-mail service" option, I imagine they just moved the functionality to there.
- flowerpunk 16y agoAh, this makes filtering people out even eaiser. Time to auto-delete *@facebook.com
- alastair 16y agocan anybody really blame facebook for not allowing export? your contact list (with email) is basically their golden goose. if they let other services suck this data out, their competitors only need to sign 1 person per social circle for pretty much everyone on FB to get an invite to leave. in the spirit of openness, it sucks, but if you owned facebook would you welcome that risk?
- access_denied 16y agoIf I was in charge of Facebook I would concentrate on improving the product. Do you know how many times PC-friends told me to leave Apple and I never did? Build up brand-loyalty, that's the way to go. Not some "cyber-barrier" that relies on noobness of your users.
- IChrisI 16y agoYes, we can blame Facebook for not allowing export of emails. Several people on here have said that Facebook has learned their name (and some other information) without them having an account. If Facebook does X using other companies' data, Facebook should allow other companies to do X using their data.
- alastair 16y agoSaying they should is the easy response, and will surely receive many upvotes, but my point was it's hard to judge them. I suspect many people here would hesitate to open up like that if in a similar position. Facebook is a business after all.
- travisjeffery 16y agoFacebook and Google could write the book on passive aggressiveness.
- ElbertF 16y agoGoogle should disable "I'm feeling lucky" for facebook.com, 80% of their users won't be able to find the site anymore. /s
- mike-cardwell 16y agoGoogle shouldn't have started this petty argument in the first place.
- forgotusername 16y agoAFAIK, this "petty argument" started with Facebook blocking Google Friend Connect, ironically, for permanently caching data from the Facebook API (effectively what Facebook were doing in return with Gmail's address book).
- Ueland 16y agoSince Google have the motto "Dont be evil", doing that will undermine their own motto and Google could risk that move blows back on them one way or the other.
- omaranto 16y agoHow is helping people kick their facebook habit evil? Sounds down right humanitarian to me.
- techcrunchfan 16y agobut it appears orkut has not been removed yet. http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/21/facebook-list-of-third-party-email-providers-doesnt-include-gmail-now/ http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/21/facebook-list-of-third-part...
- desk 16y agohow long will orkut last on the list http://bit.ly/aXAwVT http://bit.ly/aXAwVT
- Ygor 16y agoGoogle and Facebook are starting to get more and more boring and annoying. I am starting to think they are doing all of this petty fighting just to get even more press and free marketing. Sometimes it seems like some of the management from both companies took this fight personal and now fight for their own pride. Why don't we start talking more about new and interesting stuff, and leave this two to just cool off and start working on making their services better, instead of spinning in circles and trying to catch their own tail.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y agoNo one outside the industry cares about this tiff. It's hardly a PR stunt.