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Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

Jalam — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:31:16 -0000

Here is the problem I had with facebook

http://randomthougts101.blo...

They lifted the block after few days but I still do not know what is the acceptable rate of acquiring friend for them and if their is some kind of ceiling on how many friends some one can have.

Why two VC's are funding facebook applications when some body can be booted out so easily?

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

whazzzz up? — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:24:49 -0000

Wow, that's crazy.

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

Adam Ostrow — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:07:12 -0000

Agreed ... most other social sites also offer a contact import - LinkedIn, Twitter, etc that will auto-email everyone in your address book if you're not careful. The difference here is that Plaxo is "scraping" the email address since Facebook turns it into an image and doesn't make it available in their API.

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

leightoncooke — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:02:44 -0000

Scoble is right when he says:
"Itâ€™s ironic that you can import your Gmail address book into Facebook but you canâ€™t export back out."
FB trying to have its cake and eat it?

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

Bob J. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:32:39 -0000

People need to make up their minds...the last few months has been nothing but bitching about so-called privacy violations and now today the big cry is over not being able to mine users data.

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

ProfessionalGun — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:18:31 -0000

I'm not really saying this in support of Facebook, but John McCrea's argument that it's time for the social web to open up is really out of place in this context. An open social web would be great, yes - but don't tarnish the movement by attaching it to your own opportunistic objectives. That's like a little kid complaining because "Mark" won't share the cupcake his mom packed in his lunch. It's his prerogative (and likely undoing) if he doesn't want to share. Find a more respectable way to build your user base, Plaxo.

Re: Why Scoble Got the Boot from Facebook: Plaxo’s New Feature

Israel On Blog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:14:15 -0000

Seems like facebook doing all to destroy themselves, and open the door for more "open social networks".
some said OpenSocial?