Two articles in the NYtimes bits blog expose facebook this week- the first is facebook's judgement against breast feeders. My sympathy goes out to these women, however, its not the subject of this blog.
The post of interest is Facebook's resistance to power.com. Now, I don't know anything about power.com, YET, but I will be doing my research. I have heard of it, in theory I love the idea of aggregating social networks, making it easier for the end-user, and overall enabling people to really leverage their networks- without taking all their time to do so. I am also wary. So I will be following up, until then check out the article here and the power.com website here.
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Looks like power.com was in the wrong on this one, cuz.
ReplyDeleteIf you read the filed complaint, power was using user login information without permission and when initially approached by Facebook about it they told them they didn't care if they (facebook) didn't like it.
Looking at power.com now, it appears that they have reeled back that stance because they have a message up saying that they are working with Facebook to provide an interface that is agreeable to the host party.
I'll start with the breastfeeding issue... You have GOT to be kidding me. Our (the U.S.) culture has become SO puritanical that it has become insulting to women and children. I joined the group. I will check further to see if I can donate money to this organization. In this case, Facebook is wrong.
ReplyDeleteIn reference to the power.com portion of the article... oops, you're interfering with a company's ability to make money, to wit, "It then enters those outside sites as if it were the user and allows the user to view the other site’s pages without actually visiting them."
Facebook is paid by advertisers who hope that the user/viewer will visit the advertisers websites. It infringes on their financial capabilities. Bad power.com... no cookie.