Google will no longer let other services automatically import its users’ email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flows both ways. It accused Facebook in particular of siphoning up Google contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users’ information.
Google said that while it makes it easy for other Web services to automatically import a user’s contact data, Facebook was not reciprocating.
“We have decided to change our approach slightly to reflect the fact that users often aren’t aware that once they have imported their contacts into sites like Facebook, they are effectively trapped,” Google said in an emailed statement.
“We will no longer allow websites to automate the import of users’ Google Contacts (via our API) unless they allow similar export to other sites,” Google said.
Our equipment hasn’t come in yet. Who knew importing near-military grade GPS equipment to Saudi Arabia would be problematic?
We’ve been twiddling our thumbs 8,000 miles from home for 3 days. Our hosts are great, the food is excellent, the accommodations very nice. It still sucks to be just sitting here.
285 cable channels, 15 in English. There’s nothing on. Though there is the Mecca channel… all Mecca all the time, with these long slow pans of the place. And there’s like 150 channels of religious singing, 60 channels of unintelligible (to me) talking heads with headdresses…
I really need a portable mouse. The trackpad on my laptop is getting old.
I’m not getting over jetlag nearly as fast as I would if I weren’t sitting around all day. Ugh, a 10 hour time difference!
High points so far
the Saudi style dinner we had 2 nights ago was quite an experience!
walking part of Riyadh and going to the top of Kingdom Tower.
If you care to, email or comment on this post to allay my homesickness. Please don’t call my cell, it’s $2.50/min whether I pick up or not. But I can call you via Skype when I have wifi…
(mouseover: And what about all the people who won’t be able to join the community because they’re terrible at making helpful and constructive co– … oh. )
I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks. By far the most entertaining audio program I have listened to in a very long time is Black Jack Justice #36 – Journeys End.
Want to make your next drive go by just like that? Download and burn this radio play today!
The bad news: This appears to be the very last episode of the series. I certainly miss it!
The good news: Listening to this episode won’t cramp your enjoyment of the other 35 episodes!
I used Wordbook for about a year but it recently broke :-(. I’m sure the Facebook people don’t like this functionality because it sucks people away from their one-website-internet plan. So we’ll see how long WPBook lasts!
