“The final speaker during the second day of the Web 2.0 Summit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was joined on stage by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly,” Jason Kincaid reports for TechCrunch.
“Zuckerberg had an explanation for why the company had not partnered with Apple to let it pull in social data for Ping,” Kincaid reports. “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.'”
Kincaid reports, “Obviously there’s more to it than that — I doubt Steve Jobs would have said Facebook requested ‘onerous terms’ if it had only been for infrastructure costs.”
Full article here.
Jason D. O’Grady points out for ZDNet, “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,” O’Grady reports. “Google disabled Gmail contact export into Facebook (which FB later hacked) because Facebook won’t share its contact data with Google.”
O’Grady writes, “Cue the double standards.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David J.” for the heads up.]