According to the Guardian, the Google vs. Facebook battle of data management is back on the hot seat. Facebook is not playing fair with regards to allowing a free flow of information, says Google. Google’s argument focuses on the fact that Facebook does not allow its people to easily upload contact data as other service tend to. To show Facebook it does not appreciate the isolationist stance, Google has walled off Facebook from taking information from Gmail contacts.
Google gets to Facebook so Facebook gets past Google
Facebook users weren't able to import or invite contacts from Google services for a little when as a result of Google's data stance against Facebook. Facebook doesn't like being told what to do. This is why it created a hack quickly so users no longer had this problem. All Google contacts could be uploaded onto Facebook. This could be after they download them. New users don't even have to leave Facebook to do this.
Google’s Data Liberation Front, a team of company engineers committed to making it easy for Google users to move their information in and out of Google products, is reportedly "disappointed" in Facebook’s move, writes the Guardian. From a Google corporate statement:
“We’re disappointed that Facebook didn’t invest their time in making it possible for their users to get their contacts out of Facebook. As passionate believers that people should be able to control the data they create, we will continue to allow our users to export their Google contacts.”
Facebook has yet to remark on the issue.
More for the Great Online Data War to deal with
"In war, truth is the first casualty," Greet dramatist Aeschylus, who lived from 525 BC to 456 BC, said. The probably scenario is the Great Online Data War – Google vs. Facebook – doesn’t have one clear party within the right or within the wrong. The truth of the matter is that Google and Facebook will make decisions that benefit themselves first. This recent skirmish between the online titans makes it seem as if Facebook simply doesn’t want to provide an escape route for its users, but Google could simply be trying to find an opening in Facebook via which it can extend a new battering ram in the rumored Google Me service.
Articles cited
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/nov/08/google-facebook-gmail-contacts-data
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