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The Wrong Path? Facebook Cuts Off Access To Find Friends API From Social Network’s App

David Cohen — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:01:50 +0000

Social network Path became the latest application to lose access to Facebook’s find friends application-programming interface, prohibiting Path users from accessing their Facebook friends lists and sending them invites or follow suggestions.

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Facebook Blocks Instagram-Like App Vintage Camera

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:09:23 +0000

Facebook has not been hesitant to cut off data to applications that don’t share back, as Vine and Yandex discovered recently. Now it has blocked a photo app — Vintage Camera — with filters similar to Facebook’s Instagram, claiming that the app has received overwhelming negative feedback. But developer Presselite said negative feedback has been rare, and it feels that Facebook’s ownership of Instagram influenced its decision.

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Russia’s Yandex Puts Wonder App On Hold After Unsuccessful Talks With Facebook

David Cohen — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:14:42 +0000

After Facebook revoked access to its data from Russian search engine Yandex’s Wonder iOS application last week, Yandex announced that it will pull Wonder from Apple’s App Store and put the social discovery app on hold.

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Facebook Responds To Platform Controversy Around Apps Voxer, Wonder, Vine

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:47:40 +0000

In recent days, Facebook has been cutting off data access to applications that have been using it in ways that either compete with or replicate what the social network does — first with Voxer, then Wonder, and most recently Vine. Facebook Director of Platform Partnerships and Operations Justin Osofsky clarified his company’s stance with regard to sharing data. In essence, apps that allow users to share data back to Facebook are OK, while those that do not violate the site’s platform policy.

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Twitter Video-Sharing App Vine Hung Out To Dry By Facebook

David Cohen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:22:56 +0000

Add one more application to the list of those being blocked by Facebook: Vine, a new video-sharing app from Twitter, joined Russian search engine Yandex’s Wonder and voice-messaging app Voxer on the list of apps that have been denied access to the social network’s data during the past week.

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Facebook Yanks Data From Yandex’s Mobile App, A Graph Search Competitor

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:13:45 +0000

Thursday, Russian search engine Yandex released a mobile application, Wonder, that was something like Facebook’s graph search mixed with Siri. From an iPhone or iPod Touch, someone could ask Wonder, “What sushi restaurants do my friends like in San Francisco?” and it would come up with a list, based on their Facebook friends’ likes and check-ins. A few hours after the app went live, Facebook pulled its data from Wonder.

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Facebook Extends Reach In Russia Through Partnership With Yandex

Jackie Cohen — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:04:05 +0000

The seventh-largest search engine in the world, Russia‘s Yandex, is integrating Facebook notification data into search results. Short for “Yet Another Indexer,” Yandex boasts more than 19 million unique visitors on a typical week day and claims more than 64 percent of the Russian local search market. The company’s network of sites together fetch a global audience of about 50 million people a month.
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