AddressBooker & exporting my Facebook Phonebook
Greasemonkey script that screenscrapes Facebook phonebook, posts names and phone numbers to a Google Appengine app and gives you the option to merge them with your Google Contacts or download them.(by Brad Fitzpatrick)

Facebook Connect AKA Hailstorm 2.0 « Paying Attention
Facebook Connect proposes to make data and friend connections currently held within the walled garden of Facebook accessible to other services. This has two distinct benefits, one for the sites and one for Facebook. For the participating sites,...

Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web
Facebook continues to make major and mostly proprietary moves as the battle for Web identity heats up. Most companies are following open standards but Facebook Connect is a creation of its own making. However, Google is actually making more interesting...

Facebook Connect AKA Hailstorm 2.0
Have you seen this?Let me quote the highlights for you:If the initial development race of Web 2.0 centered around “building a better social network” then the next phase will certainly focus on extending the reach of existing social networks beyond...

Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? - GigaOM
These two diametrically opposed views of how we are going to come to grips with our social web are going to face an intense debate until consumers vote with their clicks.

Google adds OAuth to widget mashups
This is good news for everyone who has ever been troubled by the notion of entering their login credentials for a primary service such as Gmail into a 3rd-party service such as Plaxo.

The New Yahoo! Profile and Doing Data Portability the Right Way
"Yahoo! has allowed users to opt-in to allowing an application used by a member of their social network to access their personal information. This is a very user-centric approach and avoids the draconian practice of services like Facebook that get...

Facebook, Microsoft and Data Portability
Michael Arrington has a great piece up on TechCrunch entitled “The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship“. In it, he shines a spotlight on a most curious thing — that Facebook has given Microsoft access to data on Facebook users...

Google, Microsoft, MySpace et Facebook parlent interopérabilité - Actualités Internet - Le Monde Informatique
TECH>Microsoft, Google, MySpace et Facebook réunis pour parler interopérabilité de leurs plateformes. Sus à la logique propriétaire, donc, car frein à l'innovation. mais un frein sur lequel évidemment tout le monde n'appuie pas avec...

Netflix API Launches Tomorrow - Here's What it Will and Won't Include
The much-awaited Application Programming Interface (API) for movie site Netflix will launch tomorrow, according to an email from the company. As HackingNetflix found out last week, the launch event will occur at the AJAX Experience conference. Details...