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[2010] Google To Facebook: You Can't Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity

The war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google just made one small tweak to its Terms of Service that will have a big impact on the world’s biggest social network. From now on, any service that accesses Google’s Contacts API — which makes it easy to import your list of friends’ and coworkers’ email addresses into another service — will need to offer reciprocity. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/facebook-google-contacts/
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2010/11/whats_mine_isnt_yours.html

The Facebook-Google spat over who controls your data. - By Farhad Manjoo

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg's favorite phrase is "social graph." In nearly every public appearance, the Facebook founder describes his company as a kind of cartographer on an endless mission to build an ever larger, more comprehensive, and more accurate map of humanity.

Zuckerberg admits fallibility over Gmail block

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/17/zuckerberg_on_google_api_spat/ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't sure that Facebook is "100 per cent right" in preventing Google's Gmail and other third-party apps from automatically importing email addresses from the social-networking service.
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/17356-mark-zuckerberg-doute-de-la-politique-de-fermeture-de-facebook.html Facebook va-t-il revoir sa politique en matière d'ouverture des données ? Invité au sommet Web 2.0 qui se déroule actuellement à San Francisco, le fondateur et directeur exécutif du réseau social a exprimé quelques doutes sur la politique de fermeture de son réseau social.

Mark Zuckerberg doute de la politique de fermeture de Facebook