Google Battles Facebook Over Email Contacts - Windows 7 Forums

Facebook is actually one the best example of how the change will apply in action. At the moment, when a new user signs up to the site, Facebook asks if they want to import their contacts list from their email account. If they do so, Facebook then cross-references this list, finds anyone who is already on Facebook, and asks if the user wants to add them as an online friend. This import works through an Application Programming Interface (API), the way in which a website makes its data available for programmers. A well-known example is the Twitter API, which allows the existence of numerous standalone applications that can read the posts on a Twitter account without the need to visit the official website. However, others have argued that the decision is as much about competition as it is a point of principle. Even though it's high-profile social networking tool Buzz proved largely unsuccessful, Google has shown an increasing interest in getting into the social networking market. With that...

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