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One thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that it’s a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wandered.
- mike - Jun 29 2008 | facebook, open social, data, social
Really excellent guest-post on TechCrunch detailing the data structures on FaceBook, and what the TOS allows applications to export from the FB platform (more than you think).
Quoted: The following guest post was written by Dan Birdwhistell, founder of people directory Bigsight (reviewed here) and creator of Hacking Facebook, a website ...
Quoted: The following guest post was written by Dan Birdwhistell, founder of people directory Bigsight (reviewed here) and creator of Hacking Facebook, a website that teaches developers how to pull user data out of Facebook. There’s one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that it's a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform
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I don't know of any popular app that asks users to opt in again to allow full export - presumably FriendCSV does.
Without the user opting in, you can't store anything useful beyond 24 hours.
There are some apps that have you fill out an information form, pre-filled with data from Facebook - it seems they didn't need to do all this work, a simple checkbox and some text is all that's needed!