Facebook Removes Gmail List Of Third Party Email Providers

Facebook vs. Google data reciprocity front It looks like Facebook is removing Gmail from the list of third party email providers on “Find Friends”, whereas we were seeing direct link downloads to Gmail contacts still offered as an option just a couple of days ago.

Signing up with a non-Gmail account eliminates the option entirely even though you still have the capability to manually download and upload your contact files. This seems to be the latest development in the ongoing Facebook vs. Google slap fight, even though it’s not exactly clear who slapped whom.

Here’s our ongoing tally:

1. Google To Facebook: You Can’t Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity
2. Data Protectionism Begins In Earnest
3. Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
4. Google’s Response To Facebook’s Response To Google’s Facebook API Ban
5. Google Gets Feisty, Kicks Data Portability Fight With Facebook Up A Notch
6. Google No Longer Claims Facebook Will “Trap” Users. Or Do They?

For the record, Mark Zuckerberg called Gmail Priority Inbox “pretty cool” onstage at Web 2.0 Summit after Facebook announced their own email product last week.

Update: Word from Google is that nothing has changed from its side. Atul Arora also points out that the Gmail contact import button is now gone from Facebook property Friendfeed as well.

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