Facebook simply acquired something referred to though Octazen Solutions, a corporation which the majority folks (myself included) had never heard up of until yesterday.Additionally Techcrunch's Mike Arrington had to invite " What did Facebook just buy?" Arrington plus others talked to his or her or him industry sources, and the overall word around the net could be that Octazen is the surprisingly successful data-scraping operation, grabbing users' social graphs from one service and porting them to a different. Octazen may gain certainly make use of their methods of avoiding the same old restrictions as to scraping (stuff prefer API rate limits) for sketchy functions, like promoting users' information, less than Facebook would possibly be afflicted by added benign intentions for its new acquisition. Learn, Facebook requirements as several users allowing for as many chums as potential -- it has got sensible for business! -- and it's simpler to locate your Facebook friends by connecting with a handful of sites compared to others.
You can already notice new Facebook buddies via serious services like AIM and Gmail, but Octazen could use its mad scraping talents to give the opportunity for Facebook to determine user relationships on different social networks and email services around the web. We have a tendency to
obviously have to attend and notice what happens, but I suspect about that
move needs to perform with Facebook's push for users to consolidate their
web presence around Facebook.
[via
GigaOM, via
TechCrunch]
