Maybe Facebook is a little scared of Ping getting a little too popular? I don't think they have anything to worry about (for now 
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Apple-Facebook Controversy Over Ping Rooted in API Usage, Feature May Return
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Facebook needs this
** Well come on , ~Facebook has been around a good few years now and frankly its getting old..
An 'Apple-Facebook' partnership would create a huge expansion to social networking.
This partnership would at first be more beneficial to Apple.
But considering that everything Apple touches turns to gold, then I think that in the long term this will be essential to Facebooks survival.
** Well come on , ~Facebook has been around a good few years now and frankly its getting old..
An 'Apple-Facebook' partnership would create a huge expansion to social networking.
This partnership would at first be more beneficial to Apple.
But considering that everything Apple touches turns to gold, then I think that in the long term this will be essential to Facebooks survival.
Think about it, how many things are just based on it being a (comprehensive) directory of contacts?
You could do those things in 1000s of different (and mostly better) ways.
The FB website is crap, let's be honest.
I agree, we need an open standard to come to the rescue.
In the meantime I'll persist with my Facebook privacy policy - i.e. not signing up. Although it's getting increasingly hard to resist.
As an aside, Spotify also has social features and it's a hassle to add friends if you are not on Facebook. You need to type some bizarre syntax into the search field which most people won't figure out (spotify:user:spotify_username) whereas there is a big button to import facebook friends.
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Heh, thanks, I think I'll just live with it! I was just curious, although, as iTunes seems to be a preview of upcoming OSX UI changes, I'd say all apps will go to this eventually.
PS. I predict a Facebook / MySpace merge in the next 18mo.
Heh, thanks, I think I'll just live with it! I was just curious, although, as iTunes seems to be a preview of upcoming OSX UI changes, I'd say all apps will go to this eventually.
PS. I predict a Facebook / MySpace merge in the next 18mo.
Yes none of that was possible before facebook.
Thank god for facebook to use the internet to allow people to contact each other over great distances.
I totally agree, there are people who use facebook obsessively, and there are people who use it as a way to keep in contact with friends and family. Its a bulletin board for your social group. Or if we want to get into the mcluhan ideas, its like the modern village, but you get to choose your fellow villagers.
I think what the person you were replying to was trying to say though, is that we need a better way of managing all of this outside of corporate ownership like facebook. Something more open source like email, but as a social network. I don't know if we will ever achieve true interoperability between networks though.
Haha, just watch.
Since Facebook has decided to block Ping, Mac OS X will now have a security update issued that essentially blocks Facebook.
Since Facebook has decided to block Ping, Mac OS X will now have a security update issued that essentially blocks Facebook.
I realize that it was possible to contact people over great distances before FB. But IMO, it has made it more convenient. Believe me when you're trying to share photos with your 90 year old great grandmother who struggles to use a computer, FB is easier than sending an email with photos which then causes a security warning when you attempt to download them, etc.
FB just made communicating with people easier. I'm not saying that it's the greatest thing ever invented either. I just don't get why some people have this hatred for FB, and other examples of web 2.0
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Your opinion is your opinion, but your grammar is horrendous. Missing a few words in those first two?.....
What.
You're responsible for protecting your data. Disable application access. Now when I'm around the Internet, instead of seeing the Facebook tie-in I see a box that says I haven't activated data sharing. It isn't rocket science.
What.
If I remember correctly, the original creator of the Facebook for iPhone application was denied access by Apple to private APIs within iOS, so he had to recreate some of the UI functionality from scratch.
I wonder if this is some kind of retribution?
I wonder if this is some kind of retribution?
Yep. Until Apple closes the deal and Facebook is integrated with iTunes. Steve can't be wrong, after all.
Just checked, and the UK iTunes Store has Aqualung, Songs from the Wood, Minstrel in the Gallery, Thick as a Brick, Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, J-Tull Dot Com, Rock Island, Crest of a Knave, and a dozen other Jethro Tull albums.
I don't think people hate the convenience of it. Personally I only don't care for the dipsh*t nerd with a hard-on for phony social acceptance who controls it. Wish he'd move back East...
I think most people don't like Facebook in the United States because it's become a replacement for [instead of just a small helpful addition to] people's social lives. It's complicated an already f-'d up social scene.
People don't like Facebook because its the cool new thing to do... hate Facebook.
Agree. To me, the bullcrap alarm is screaming hard now. Facebook has some of the best global infrastructure network engineers out there. Hell, there are automated tools to balance server loads like this. IMO, anyone saying this is a technical issue is blowing a smoke screen. This is all politics.
My guess is that, FB is trying to make Apple look bad by pulling the plug on iTunes to Facebook and blaming it on Apple. If there is no direct agreement, a third party Facebook to iTunes friends list conversion tool / tools will surface. Would not be surprised if someone is working on a Window / Mac / iPhone app that does this right now.