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Hacking the Facebook Platform for Data Portability (techcrunch.com)
15 points by sanj on June 29, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Interesting, but flawed. I posted why on TC:

"I think that what is missing here is the definition of “Exportable Facebook Properties”. The author assumes that it is defined, and consists of ALL of the data on Facebook.

But a minor bit of searching turns this up on Facebook’s devwiki (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/ExportableFBPr...)

“At this time, there are no exportable properties. In the event that we allow certain kinds of data to be exportable to non-Facebook applications or data repositories, we will list those properties here.”

Unless I’m mistaken, that undermines the majority of this post."


Plus they'll end up banning you anyway.




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