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"Facebook later told TechCrunch that it won’t give access to data to any company that doesn’t share much back". Is that documented anywhere? I never heard about

• magic_haze 14y ago
  I'm pretty sure I've seen this restriction discussed on HN before, especially around the time g+ was introduced. I think they ran into this well, but I'm not sure what the resolution was.
  • shoopy 14y ago
    IIRC This was Google's rationale in disallowing FB from importing contacts programmaticaly - FB wants to hoover contacts from everywhere but refuses to give data back.
    • entropyneur 14y ago
      Correct. That is pretty much exact reproduction of Google's statement when they cut off Facebook access to Gmail contacts. The irony.
• mbesto 14y ago
  This is going to get a of lot startups worried I find it really silly that a startup wouldn't be worried to begin with. Think about this for a second: building a network effect is extremely hard. Extremely hard = lots of time = lots of money. All of the sudden, a company (like Facebook) is giving away access to their massive identity database away FOR FREE. Let me rephrase, they are giving away something they've spent massive amounts of money to create for free. If someone can't compute that, then I feel no sympathy for your startup that goes tits up.
  • shoopy 14y ago
    s/Facebook/Google/ and you have the contacts import debacle of a couple years ago.