Monday, July 11, 2011

Separate rules for everyone?

This is a pointer to the following CNET article:

Facebook blocks a second contact export tool
by Stephen Shankland

Read more: http://goo.gl/HVJDo

After all of Facebook's efforts to prevent this activity, and also after the shut down the API that Open-Xchange uses, why is Yahoo still allowed to pull this info with email addresses but other apps are not even permitted to pull the first and last name?

Read the article in full and tell me what you think?