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Aggregating social network data

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Aggregating social network data

Michael Osterman By Michael Osterman
There was an interesting controversy last week involving Facebook and Plaxo. Robert Scoble was using a script in an unreleased feature of Plaxo Pulse that allowed him to collect names, addresses and birthdays from his Facebook account. Facebook automatically disabled his account based on the significant activity it detected and because running these types of scripts violates Facebook�s terms of service. However, shortly after the automatic disabling of his account, Mr. Scoble's access to Facebook was reinstated. Read full story

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