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Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook

Posted by Unknown on from the google-plus-plus-go dept.

Several readers submitted stories about Google+ today. CWMike writes in with an article about the lack of developer APIs from Computerworld "Currently, external developers don't have any Google+ APIs or tools to tinker with. A Google spokeswoman said, 'We definitely plan to involve developers and publishers in the Google+ project, but we don't have specific details to share just yet. Please stay tuned.' The spokeswoman declined to say specifically if Google+ will be compatible with the company's OpenSocial set of common APIs for social networking applications." Anita Khanna writes "Facebook is trying real hard to block users migrating to google+. Although the recently announced Google+ social platform is still in private beta, it has generated enough excitement to have Facebook making some preemptive measures. Shortly after the announcement, Facebook made a peculiar change to their TOS that resulted in the ban of popular Chrome extension Facebook Friend Exporter. Over the weekend, another personal data migration tool, Open-Xchange, has also been deactivated." Finally, an anonymous reader notes that Google is requiring real names for profiles, and may have already suspended some users for using aliases.

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  1. Suspending users for not using real names? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Darn. :(

    1. Re:Suspending users for not using real names? by yincrash · · Score: 3, Funny

      There can only be one.

    2. Re:Suspending users for not using real names? by Inner_Child · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh come on, it's not like everyone doesn't already know your real name. Just switch to Anakin Skywalker...

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  2. Re:I guess I won't be using it then. by hedwards · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not really, I'm a douche in real life, consequently, I go online to be friendly and helpful, if people ever found out that I was helping people and being nice, my life as I know it would be over.

  3. Re:I guess I won't be using it then. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Diaspora has a Facebook page. Figure that shit out.