Facebook v. Plaxo, Round 1 To Facebook


Social networking site Facebook has won an initial victory by its potential rival Plaxo, the contact utility which, with Plaxo Pulse, is aspiring to be another social networking site.
 
According to ZDNet, it all came about when blogger Robert Scoble attempted to

export the details of his 5,000 contacts using an alpha

version of Plaxo’s screen-scraper. His history was blocked for a violation of service terms, and only reinstated after he agreed to stop.
 
Plaxo objected that the utility did nothing more than any other impo

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