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No, the solution is to open up Facebook! Interoperability is good for users!

• unalone 18y ago
  I'd love that, but Facebook isn't going to. They don't stand to benefit nearly enough. So all their solutions - like Facebook connect - will stay them-centric.
• gaius 18y ago
  It's hard to make that case, because ownership of data is ambiguous. For instance, if I have my phone# on my profile, and you sync it with your mobile device, fine. If you take my contact details and add them to your address book on another site, well that's not so fine. But is my phone number my data or yours in this scenario? Looking at my photos on FB is fine. Posting one of my photos on your wall or making it your profile pic is fine. Uploading it to another site in your own gallery... But didn't I put that photo on the Internet for all to see? Well, perhaps not, if I set it "friends only" on FB then there was probably a reason for that. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Facebook's technology and the terms of use of its API attempt to strike a balance for issues like this. Interoperability is fine on paper, but FB isn't just a website; it's a part of the plumbing of people's real lives.