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know best? Are they the best arbiters of my privacy? Thanks, Facebook, but no thanks. I should be able to do with my data as I please. Update: TechCrunch has more, including a follow-up from both Google and Facebook. Update 2: John Furrier has an interesting post where he compares Facebook's strategy to Netscape rather than Microsoft.

My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. read more → No CommentsTags: Technology

My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. read more

My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. read more

goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. I saw Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s developer platform, at Google’s event Monday night. You can see him at the end of the event

until it comes into compliance. We’ve reached out to Google several times about this issue, and hope to work with them to enable users to share their data exactly when and where they choose. Open is not actually open after all at Facebook. Furrier thinks Facebook has just pulled a Netscape. Robert Scoble disagrees. It’s a lesson we need to learn — an open door policy can be good for your strategy but it can also make other enterprising entities benefit from your hard work. That

it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our terms of service.” via Facebook Developers Hardcore internet purists freak out at anything that goes against the free and open philosophies that the web was founded upon. But others have already said it was the correct thing for Facebook to do. Users don’t care about this stuff. They just want to interact with their friends on a site

My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. I saw Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s developer platform, at Google’s event Monday night. You can see him at the end of the event

ve long been a supporter of dual-mode phones with seamless roaming and I think it’s a great idea, but I think TEAM may be too narrow a solution to drive widespread adoption on its own. Fellow blogger and twitter’r John Furrier had some additional thoughts on MS Live Mesh and the UC news today. Marty Parker and Don Van Doren jumped up to explain the black art of demystifying ROI around UC. It was a great presentation I’m not sure I can summarize here. They also have some great worksheets and

great presentation. If I were in the market for a VM solution I’d give them a hard look. I just wonder if they have a great answer to a question very few people are asking? After the conference proper I had a great conversation with Jim Burton and John Furrier over a wonderful 2001 Phelps cab. A huge thank you to Jim for providing the wine. However, even more than the wine I was intrigued by the conversation and where UCStrategies is going. I had all too short a time to chat with