Comments on: Facebook blocks Google, for your own good

By: Artur

Artur — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:59:37 +0000

I disagree. I have a lot of data in Google databases. In the gnotebook, gmail, gcheckout. And I believe they should have some competitors to:
- not have ALL my data ;-)
- improve their products
- simply give me (even illusionary) choice between them and competitive solutions

By: Artur

Artur — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:59:37 +0000

By: Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:08:07 +0000

I support Facebook on this one, as long as they can work the issue out with Google.

How can they support user privacy if, in the name of openness, they allow any third party complete access to your data?

They're trying to strike a balance, to find a way to protect user privacy while making data portable. Give them a break.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:54:35 +0000

As a developer, I can totally understand the desire to keep a walled garden because of privacy and control. As working for a business with users who give up their time, their content, their connections – I can totally see why wanting to keep them in the fold is important and doing your best to bar them from being harassed. As a consumer, I am 100% about not re-entering my data, and going for standarisation, but not sure WHO I want or even trust to “guard” my data. At the end of the day, these sites are nothing without their users.

What a messy smorgasboard of conflicting feelings.

By: teddyhcraig

teddyhcraig — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:41:40 +0000

Iron website giants...
Google vs Facebook...

Todays secret ingredient: The end user!

Let the battle begin!

In the end, we control them, by voting with our presence of lack thereof...
And all the really smart people in positions of power know that and ask in such a way as to show they know that! The fools don't and are punished!