Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/20/facebook-google-2/

by Sparklin • 16 years ago

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w1ntermute• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

From what I can tell, the loss of functionality has been entirely on Facebook's side to this point. Right?

mike-cardwell2• 16 years ago

The people who have lost out have been GMail users.

alphaoverlord• 16 years ago

They need to make a Taiwanese news animation of this drama. Better than daytime TV.

bretthopper• 16 years ago

More: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_appledaily/

kmfrk• 16 years ago

Looks like mutually assured destruction.

This is hardly a zero sum game.

scalyweb• 16 years ago

Facebook,your britches are looking a bit small these days. IPO dreams sure do lead to mediocre results.

ck2• 16 years ago

This 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• 16 years ago

They still have the "other e-mail service" option, I imagine they just moved the functionality to there.

flowerpunk• 16 years ago

Ah, this makes filtering people out even eaiser. Time to auto-delete *@facebook.com

alastair2• 16 years ago

can 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?

IChrisI• 16 years ago

Yes, 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.

alastair2• 16 years ago

Saying 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• 16 years ago

Facebook and Google could write the book on passive aggressiveness.

ElbertF• 16 years ago

Google should disable "I'm feeling lucky" for facebook.com, 80% of their users won't be able to find the site anymore. /s

mike-cardwell2• 16 years ago

Google shouldn't have started this petty argument in the first place.

forgotusername• 16 years ago

AFAIK, 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• 16 years ago

Since 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• 16 years ago

How is helping people kick their facebook habit evil? Sounds down right humanitarian to me.

techcrunchfan• 16 years ago

but it appears orkut has not been removed yet. http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/21/facebook-list-of-third-part...

desk• 16 years ago

how long will orkut last on the list http://bit.ly/aXAwVT

Ygor• 16 years ago

Google 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• 16 years ago

No one outside the industry cares about this tiff. It's hardly a PR stunt.

Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers

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