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Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity

By | November 16, 2010, 8:03pm PST

Summary: Zuckerberg on Ping: “we want to have an understanding that you won’t just import our data…”

At day two of the Web 2.0 Summit John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly asked Mark Zuckerberg why Facebook pulled its social data from Ping:

He says that Facebook has had to invest tens of millions of dollars into infrastructure to enable games from large developers like Zynga, which is why Facebook and Zynga agreed to a formal alliance.

Zuckerberg says that if the company is going to make an investment like this, “we want to have an understanding that you won’t just import our data — and that you try to contribute back. We’re working through that.”

Wait, what?

Facebook doesn’t want to give its data to Ping without reciprocity?

If this sounds familiar that’s because it’s the exact same issue that Facebook got called out for by Google just a week ago. Google disabled Gmail contact export into Facebook (which FB later hacked) because Facebook won’t share its contact data with Google.

Cue the double standards.

Tip: TechCrunch Photo: Nchacko

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
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Please retract the last sentence from your post
NonZealot 16th Nov 2010
I will require some reciprocity before you can use my catch phrase. Whaddya got?
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Unless you secretly are Jason O'Grady, ...
RationalGuy 17th Nov 2010
@NonZealot

... just inadvertently let the cat out of the bag and are now trying to backpedal.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
cybursoft 17th Nov 2010
Sweet ! Way to put fakebook on the spot he he @ Jason D. O'Grady.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
fibreoptik 17th Nov 2010
How can guys that are so bloody rich still manage to look and act like such complete and utter douchebags?
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beauty is skin deep...
shryko Updated - 17th Nov 2010
@fibreoptik
It seems to be ingrained so deep into who they are, that the money has nothing to do with it... They might make it rich, but they're still the same person inside.
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Did Jason just channel NZ to diss Facebook?
matthew_maurice 17th Nov 2010
"Cue the double standards." Classic!
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Why would you want to share with Google?
Cylon Centurion 17th Nov 2010
That is the question.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
james347 17th Nov 2010
Facebook is already old news.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
Naryan 17th Nov 2010
Who doesn't like Zuckerberg? I don't like Zuckerberg. Come on, everybody join in!
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
nix_hed 19th Nov 2010
The Zuck was cook when the Facebook was still called The Facebook. Unfortunately, I think the Ping thing will come back to haunt Facebook when other companies decide to pull their support when they see Facebook playing the double-standard game.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
martin23 18th Nov 2010
Zuckerber may look back on this web 2.0 summit as the one where the world suddenly started to wake up to what he's been doing.

Facebook is designed to be addictive is designed to encourage people to disclose their data for facebook to use to their own benefit and nobody has any idea what they do with that data.

Zuckerber finds it difficult giving an honest answer to any question about the controls on the sharing of data he wants other peoples but somehow makes up the rules about why the data he controls must only be available on his site.

Do I think Zuckerber is there for the money. No its the control. 500 million people have told him everything he needs to know.
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RE: Zuckerberg: Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity
Ricksterd16 30th Nov 2010
It looks likes both sides were on the hunt for a bigger piece of the pie but neither were budging to make any agreements to as of now they have just parted ways. Although it is understandable for Zuckerberg to ask for some sort of reciprocity from Apple because he doesnt want to just give them everything that has in reality made him what he is today as well as Facebook what it is today.
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